The Radical program is also said to have been "the method by which the "Masters of Capital" . . . expected to exploit the resources of the southern states" behind federal protection. ... This amendment was a sign of the growing belief in the Republican party that national legislation was necessary for the protection of freedmen. ... Wasting no time, Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act on March 2, 1867. ... In 1866, Republicans tried to address this problem by passing the Southern Homestead Act. ... Another possible reason for this act's failure was the lack of overwhelming suppor...

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Radical Republicans were unsympathetic toward the South, they wanted the Union restored , the abolition of slavery, protection for the freed men, and also to retain their majority in Congress. ... They weren't allowed to vote, and there were no needs for their education and economic protection. ... In 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which President Johnson banned, but Congress passed it over his veto. This act protected the rights of the freed men from the Black Codes, extended suffrage to blacks, and extended the life of the Freedmen's Bureau. ... Blacks could n...

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(Zinn, 199) When Hayes beat Tilden in the presidential election by promising to end the Reconstruction in the South, it was evident that the White House would no longer support any calls for the protection of blacks. ... A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. ... With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supremacists. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their stat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A respectable group who educated blacks and taught them how to be productive members of society, was the Union League; also, the Union League provided protection for blacks in danger of being terrorized. ... The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was soon brought into play. It was "an act to provide for the more efficient government in the Rebel States." ... This act stated that there was no legal government in any of the Ex-Confederate states except Tennessee. ... Life was tried to make much safer for Southern Blacks with the Force Acts and the Ku Klux Klan Act. ...

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" On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. ... "The man who will not fight for the protection of his wife and children is a coward and deserves to be ill treated. ... " He continues to tell them to act with the law of retaliation: an eye for an eye. ... Baker's small act of resistance against racist White terrorists, Whites were rendered unsuccessful, and it shouldn't go unnoticed. ... This courag...

• Word Count: 1964
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• Grade Level: High School

Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Alien Sedition Act of 1798 extended the Naturalization Act to fourteen years. ... Ramirez does not violate the Equal Protection Clause in the fourteenth amendment. ... The court decided that denying citizens the right to vote is against the Voting Rights Act in section two. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a piece of legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. ... Gregoire and stated that the criminal disenfranchisement laws do not violate section two of the Voting Rights Act. ...

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From the day that the religiously persecuted set sail for the new world from the "old" to escape religious oppression to the day of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, America's past abounds with stories of freedom both won and lost as people of every race and sex fought and continue to fight to obtain the right to act and think as individuals. ... For years, England had imposed act after act upon the American public. These acts, which called for things such as the taxing of paper goods (Stamp Act, 1765) and the hindering of trade through the forbidden issuing of paper money by the ...

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He spoke against proposals to raise the tariff rate; he opposed measures that encouraged army officers to give aid and protection to fugitive slaves; he spoke against the bills to abolish slavery.# Vallandigham believed that these measures would prevent the restoration of the Union. ... He had supported the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the National Banking Act of 1863, but he opposed Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch's plan to retire the greenbacks in circulation and pushed a compromise plan for resuming specie payment.# John Sherman was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act i...

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• Grade Level: High School

The prison was wrong for stripping the men of their clothes, it was an unnecessary act and it led to the deaths of thousands of innocent men who were fighting for what the believed in. ... To get protection inside the prison, an inmate would have to join one of these gangs. ...

• Word Count: 1994
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• Grade Level: High School

The American presence began to grow throughout Mexico and it grew even stronger after the U.S civil war. This was happening because the Union Generals such as Grant and Sherman were leading the establishments of may of the major Railroads because of their victory of the South. The south's defeat was...

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Once becoming President of the United States, he acted as though he were a radical republican in his Reconstruction efforts and then shifted back towards the Lincoln liberal republican Reconstruction ways. ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... In his famous Cooper Union speec...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Abraham Lincoln and Equal Rights With America struggling in a state of Civil War, the nation's very core was being shaken. Abraham Lincoln, who was president during this period, realized this, and delivered one of his most historically renowned speeches, "The Gettysburg Address". This speech ad...

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(Current, pg.106) White Southerners believed that these laws were for the Negro's protection, because they forced him to fulfill agreements, to maintain a home for his family, and to seek and secure employment. ... Often an act of violence by Freedman against whites were relatively few compared to those committed by whites against Negroes. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

Ever since the beginning of slavery, African Americans would sing praises and encouragement while working in the fields. During the Civil Rights Movement many black artist and old Negro Spiritual songs became extremely popular during marches. One song that was sung a lot during the Civil Rights Mov...

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On the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg occurred the most important event in the unification of the United States. While the Confederacy seemed on the pinnacle of success on July 2nd, only 24 hours later the South was headed to inexorable defeat in absolute ruin. The battle was a more devastating loss for the South than anyone at the time fathomed. Despite the heavy losses on both sides, the tide had turned for the Union as they maintained the upper hand for the remaining two years of the war. General Robert E. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate