Southerner's spirits had been broken by the war, and the continuing issue of racism was still present. ... The Freedmen's Bureau was the most important institution during the Reconstruction era. ... The black man remained as much of a slave as before the war: uneducated and landless. ... In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to take away troops from the South, which ended the era of Reconstruction. ... Reconstruction is referred to by many historians as "The Tragic Era" or "The Age of Hate" because of the general mood that the nation felt as a result of a devastating war a...

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His election marked an end of a political era dominated by the planter aristocracy of Virginia and the commercial aristocracy of New England. ... Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. ... The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their ancestral lands. ... When this war between Biddle and Jackson was over, Jackson had won his greatest political victory, and the Second Bank of the United States passed out of existence when its charter expired in 1836. ...

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Bush, the country was attacked by Islamic terrorists on September11th, leading to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan-two wars that would indebt the country and last throughout the duration of the decade. ... Many critics, in fact, point to some of the blunders of these policies-such as Guantanamo Bay and the Iraq War-as severe violations of human rights. ... Although Wilson (2005) focuses primarily on how 9/11 and the "War on Terror" affected foreign policy, he argues that "there is now an established literature on the flaws and limitations of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 whic...

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In the wake of the New Deal era reformers in the 1960s and 1970s attempted to curtail the administrative state and revitalize local and self-government in the country. ... The Neutrality Proclamation in 1793, an act in which the Washington administration declared that the United States would enter no war, compelled Jefferson and Madison to take action. He claimed that according to the Constitution, the power to declare war is not in the hands of the President but in those of Congress. ...

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Although the policy was not introduced on a national level until the 1960's, the need to take positive steps to rectify discrimination's impact has been recognized since the Civil War. During the Reconstruction era, several organizations, such as the Freeman's Bureau, were established to create opportunities for former slaves, particularly in the south. ... Employment of minorities increased greatly in these industries until to 1945, when the world saw the end of World War II. ... One of the most revered presidents in history had been brutally assassinated just a year earlier,...

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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• Grade Level: Graduate