The Federal Government had the idea of making blacks free, but the southerners had no intention of truly freeing any blacks. ... When the southern support of the Federal Government faltered, the true south appeared and white supremacy was unleashed. ... This was to be the beginning of many other so-called Federal Government programs to be nothing more than lie. ... In 1867, the Federal Government imposed military law in the south to protect black rights. ... The Federal Government did not have the manpower to enforce its own laws. ...

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The end result of the war, securing the Union, verified that the U.S. would remain a large country with a foundational federal government to regulate all of the states" laws and economies. ... Although this raid put down, by the federal government, it led to stronger fierceness between Slave-holders in the South and anti-slavery groups in the North. ... Southern states held a political view where they felt the state governments should hold more power than the federal government. ... The main reasons for the South's secession from the Union were simply that they wanted to be recognized ...

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The Confederacy was formed because the Southern states felt that their rights were being trampled upon by the federal government and they decided to break away from the Union. ... The federal government was opposed to this, and raised an army against the Southern states. ...

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The political issue which divided the north and south were: Who strong should the central government be? The South wanted a weak central government and more control in the states North wanted a strong central government which could help regulate trade and promote inducstry. ... Slavery was abolished; however, the balance of power between the states and the Federal government remained a problem that had to be solved in the United State's Reconstruction period. ...

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Another reason why the civil war started was because it was mainly states versus federal rights. Since the time of the Revolution, two camps emerged: those arguing for greater states' rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to have more control. The first organized government in the US after the American Revolution was under the Articles of Confederation. The thirteen states formed a loose confederation with a very weak federal government. ... The federal government denied states this right. ...

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He eventually decided to flee south, but on May 10, 1865, federal troops captured him at Irwinville, Georgia. ... In 1868, the federal government dropped the case against him. For the rest of his life he tried some unsuccessful businesses and he wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881. ...

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Political officials, state, local and federal government officials, commissions, and other parts of the American bureaucracy were features. ... It also provides an appendix of federal data and an appendix of federal data and an appendix of notes to back up his information. Walton's book discusses the effects on civil rights progress of the institutionalization of enforcement agencies in the federal government. ... He sees the American government as a complex machine that has a high degree of maintenance from its citizens. ... I found it hard to find parallels between his thoughts and...

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This gave the federal government the power to trade the land west of the Mississippi, which was Oklahoma, for the Indian land in the south-eastern areas. ... He also said that banks gave too much power to the federal government and took too much away from the states and individuals like the farmers, mechanics, and laborers. ... South Carolina refused to pay this tariff, now called the 'Tariff of Abominations', because it went against the principles set by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that states can declare federal laws to be unconstitutional. ... The federal government trie...

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Johnson viewed the Bureau as a "meddlesome federal interloper" and had it killed off. ... Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal government to protect the rights of all citizens. ... In a final humiliating gesture, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which stripped the president of the power to remove federal officials without the Senate's approval. ... He then let them form their own systems of state government, which themselves established among other things the baleful black codes. ...

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Union commanders and the federal government were forced to make decisions about how large areas of the South gained by Union forces should be administered. ... Former slaves were employed as contract labor, and local whites loyal to the Union organized new state governments under federal control. ... 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. ... By 1866, federal officials deemed the Codes too harsh, and suspended them. ...

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Government some type of reparation for slavery and it was never received by slaves. ... Why should the government make a promise that it does not keep? ... That's what the government did to African-American's. ... Others forms of reparations include formal apologies and changes in government policy. ... "In 1865 the federal government established the Freedmen's Bureau, which offered food and medical care to former slaves. ...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... However, many Southerners felt that a government dominated by Free states could endanger existing slaveholdings. ... Lincoln said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... However, many Southerners felt that a government dominated by Free states could endanger existing slaveholdings. ... Lincoln said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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Calhoun viewed nullification as the right of a "single state to veto, within its own borders, a federal law that it deemed unconstitutional subject to the later approval of at least one fourth of the states. ... They threatened to leave the Union if the federal government tried to enforce the tariff laws anywhere in South Carolina. ...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. ... But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by free states could endanger slaveholdings. ... Lincoln said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. ...

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In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

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"The government will not assail you, " Lincoln asserts, "You can have no conflict, without yourselves the aggressors. " March 11, 1861 The Confederate Congress unanimously adopts the CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION which is largely modeled on the US Constitution. ... However, in addition to prohibiting any law that outlaws slavery, the new constitution codifies the sovereignty of the individual Confederate states over the central government. ... April 12-13, 1861 Although South Carolina had seceded from the Union in December 1860; federal troops continue to occupy FORT SUMTER, a federal fort in...

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The new nation's Civil War wasn't brought on to fight for a certain government, as most were at this time, but to fight for a conflict so harsh it took the lives of more than 300,000 men, women, and children. ... The Federals, or Union, with their leader as General Winthrop, were told to meet the rest of their company, with General Farnum in charge, at Little Bethel before sunrise. ... On June 10, 1861, as the Federals come to Bethel Church, the Rebels, or Confederacy, shot at the first sight of them. ... It also showed that the North had a strong federal government. ...

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The government implemented federal authority which they called Martial Law. ... So the brilliant idea of the US Government was to enforce militaristic power over the South that had just fought a war over oppression of government. ...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. ... But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by free states could endanger existing slaveholdings. ...

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He went to take over the federal arsenal; he hoped to start a rebellion of slaves. ... At the beginning of the civil war the Virginia government planned on taking over the arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry. ...

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Federal Court in St. ... Since he was a native of New York, Scott's lawyers could only file suit in the federal judicial systems, which again ruled against Scott. ... He further said that since Scott was a slave, he was not a U.S. citizen either and therefore he could not bring a case in the federal courts. On top of that, he added that Scott was never free, due to the fact that slaves were considered personal property; consequently prohibiting slavery in new territories was not the role of the Federal Government, this was unconstitutional due to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. ...

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I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... "In the year 1765, that portion of the British Empire embracing Great Britain undertook to make laws for the Government of that portion composed of the thirteen American Colonies. A struggle for the right of self-government ensued, which resulted, on the fourth of July, 1776, in a Declaration, by the Colonies, "that they are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; . . ."" ... Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens explained following the war that "the conflict, on ...

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A new, strict federal fugitive slave law would be enacted and this would anger the North. ... Calhoun said that the North has the unfair advantage in every aspect of the federal government because they have more states and a bigger population, which gives them an advantage in the House of Representatives. He stated the South couldn't protect itself in government the only solution for the South was to succeed. ... Calhoun believed if the North refused to cooperate and share government powers with the South then there will be a peaceful succession. ...

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It prohibited the federal and state governments from preventing a citizen from voting based on their race, color, or condition of servitude. ... After it was over four years later, the confederacy collapsed, slavery became abolished and the United States government occupied the south. ... This case narrowly defined the terms of the 15th amendment that probated the government from stopping anyone to vote based on their race, color, or condition of servitude. ... In return for the southern states help in Hayes's election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South. ...

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