The act: put the South under military rule, dividing it into five military districts, each governed by a northern general; forced southern states to create a new constitution; allowed all qualified male voters to vote, including Blacks; banned southerners who supported the confederacy to vote; required equal rights for all citizens; and required states to accept the 14th Amendment. ... Even under military rule, Whites killed, beat, and burned any blacks they could find. ... In Louisiana and South Carolina, Blacks actually gained a majority of the seats. ... In many places, Blacks were the majo...

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Plantation owners were wealthy, but few in numbers, yet they held the majority of the land in the south. ... The majority of men in the South thought of slavery as an evil and the issue of slavery could have been ended if the plantation owners had not discovered the crop that made slave labor the main force behind the South-cotton. ... The middle class artisans were the majority in the urban centers of the North. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ... They now controlled the majority in the Hou...

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Northern states were afraid that if Missouri entered as a slave state it would give the south a majority in the senate. Southerners argued that since the north had a majority in the House of Representatives that it was only fair that they had a majority in the senate. ... The case went to Supreme Court where he was ruled against at a 7 to 2 vote. ... Who would have thought that 700,000 people would die at the hands of their own countrymen, people that they fought with during the Revolutionary War so that they could be free of the monarchy of British Rule. ...

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The Congressional plan was to treat the south as a conquered territory by establishing military governors to rule the Southern states and requiring the majority of it's citizens to take the loyalty oath. ... The majority of the Southern officeholders were not from one of the Southern states or even the same country. ... The Republicans ruled for eight years and during that time if any of the states did not comply with the severe conditions given, Congress pass another act that imposed more stringent conditions. ...

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From 1866 to 1875, the south went through Congressional Reconstruction's period of harsh Radical Republican rule that was designed to punish white southerners for the consequences of the Civil War. ... Redeemers saw this as an opportunity to gain votes from some of the more moderate Republicans who were uncomfortable with black rule. ... Redeemers were given their name for the way they tried to redeem the South from Radical Republican rule. ... After the Vicksburg riots, leaders of the Democratic Party met in the capital and came up with a plan to end Republican rule in Mississippi once a...

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They created the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864, this bill would put the South under military rule and a majority of the states government officials would have to take an oath of loyalty to the country. ... In a passage talking about how the government would be handle according to African Americans he said: "It is not proposed merely that they shall govern themselves, but that they shall rule the white race, make and administer State Laws, elect President and members of Congress, and shape to a greater or less extent the future destiny of the whole country. ...

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Emerson's slave in the year 1830, where for 12 years there after, he accompanied the Emersons to posts in Illinois and the Wisconin Territory, where congress prohibited slavery under the rules of the Missouri Compromise. ... In 1847, The Circuit Court ruled in favor of Mrs. ... In fact a majority of the Justices that sat on the Supreme Court at that time were prominent slave holders as well. ... In the absence of such laws, Slavery cannot exist; and a Republican ascendancy in the nation, insuring Republican rule over the Territories, will prove a shield against the enactment of any such ...

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Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. ... The vast majority of southern whites simply took it for granted that the black race would remain lesser than the white in every respect. ... The Southern white planters would determine the rules and regulations in the contracts. ...

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This resulted in the idea of  nullification, whereby the states would have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. ... Also, the majority of the war was mostly fought in the south which was a defensive war for the confederacy. ...

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The president also has legislative powers because he can veto any bill that can be overturned by a majority in Congress. ... There are theories that say the only reason that certain presidents bended the rules to expand power is because they were faced with situations our Founding Fathers had never heard of. ...

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Radical Republicans, comprised of Northern politicians, were strongly opposed to slavery, unsympathetic to the South, wanted to protect newly free slaves, and keep their majority in Congress. ... Besides putting the South under the rule of federal soldiers, the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 required that Southern states to give blacks the vote as a condition of readmittance to the Union. ...

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The Supreme Court ruled that blacks could not vote in primary elections, and that seperate but equal facilities had to be equal. in 1954 the court stated that all public schools must be integrated. ... But the majority of the white middle class who believed in the equality of African Americans did not care strongly enough to do anything. ...

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The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. ... As a nation we wanted to be free from British rule and be a country unto ourselves. ...

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Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most important event in American History. The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the most controversial periods in American history. Because of this, there are many theories that explain the cause. Most con...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ...

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