Twenty years before Civil War started, South and North didn't have a good relationship already and there were many issues that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. ... After the Battle of Bull Run, each side began to train its troops and to plan strategy for the war. There were differences between both side's strategies. ... He was smart and knew how to use strategy over the enemy. ... After congress took over the reconstruction from Johnson, they quickly passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, ...

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Lincoln took this as an act of war and immediately called for 75,000 volunteer to serve for three months. ... Lincoln's strategy was to apply pressure to several points at once, pinning down the defenders and preventing them from helping one another. I think Lincoln had good ideas and strategies to win the war, like freeing the slaves and doing things his way. ...

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Republicans were able to override Johnson's vetoes of both the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the first Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act said that all African Americans to be U.S. citizens and also attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the southern states" Black Codes. ... (Amsco- Pg. 294) There was also the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which basically took a drastic step of placing the South under military occupation. ... By 1875, after passing the Civil Rights Act of 1875, moderate and conservative Republicans became frustrated with trying to reform the South...

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The passage of the Voting Rights Act caused two simultaneous and related shifts in the Democratic Party's demographics. ... The Black brothers argue that the south is now ground zero for strategies to control congress within party politics. ...

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The Fugitive Slave Act also involved in the problems because as it was stated, escaped black slaves had to be returned to their owners in the South. ... His strategy was to destroy as many military posts as possible in Maryland and Pennsylvania while the Union defend Washington D.C. ...

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Wade pitted his strength against the President on issues of military strategy and restoration of the seceded states.# In 1861, Wade was a member of a group of politicians that witnessed the Battle of Bull Run. ... 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 in 1890. ... The act declared it illegal for any business to restrain tr...

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Before they could really take action they had to limit he President's power, they did this by instating the Army Appropriation Act in 1867, and the Tenure of Office Act. ... There were many great ideas and strategies. ...

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He suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which gave troops the right to search people's homes with out permission; this was a very controversial step in Lincoln's war strategy. ... Lincoln's wife Mary Todd was known to act a senile at times, and after the death of her sons, Abraham said that she never really acted the same again. ...

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The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted...

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The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was containment - to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction. The slave-holding interests in the South denounced this strategy as infringing upon their Constitutional rights. ... The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted...

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Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the 19th century. He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1808, the son of a slave woman, and in all likelihood, her white master. When Douglass was about twelve years old, his master's...

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