Lawrence McAndrews After the Constitution was adopted by all of the States in 1789, uniting the States into one nation, differences between the States had been worked out through compromises. ... Some Southern States wanted to break away from the United States of America and govern themselves. ... The Constitution of the United States guaranteed the right to own property and protected against seizure of property. ... The Civil War became inevitable when the nation's founders acceded to the demands of Southern Planters in 1787 and wrote slavery into the Constitution as our nat...

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After the Civil war in 1861, The United States adopted the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. ... This amendment granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States including slaves." ... Now that African Americans were now free citizens of the United States they needed to find a place to live and have lives of there own. ... United States vs. ... Jackson is known as one of the most controversial in United States History. ...

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It was a document that led to end of slavery in the United State military leaders of the union really wanted Lincoln to make the proclamation free slaves. ... While it declared slaves free in most Southern states, some select areas were exempted and others were not mentioned at all. ... The proclamation paved the way for the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States. ...

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We can distinguish six main regions in the United States: New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, the Southwest, the Northwest and the Midwest. ... The largest city – New York City is known as the cultural center of United States. ... New Jersey is the most densely peopled state in United States. ... Its capital is Chicago which is also the third most populous city in the United States. ... To sum up, the United States are a most interesting country because they are diversified on all counts....

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In the late 1700's, change was happening rapidly in the United States. ... White men still dominated the United States, and they often ruled with an iron fist. ... In 1806, there was a very violent confrontation, causing more and more Native Americans to be moved to unfitting areas of the United States. ... At this time in history, most were still slaves who labored throughout the United States. The extent of their success in gaining freedom was that a few northern states prohibited slavery in their constitutions. ...

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These things are why the United States" crime rate is so high. ... Hate crimes are a big problem in the world, but in the United States, it is to my opinion to be the worst. ... In the United States alone, in 1994 there were 5,853 hate crimes that were documented (www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.html). ... There is the United States Constitution section 241: Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens, which is just the right not to take someone else's life (www.stopthehate.org/hate_crimes/fedlaws.html). Then there is the United States Constitution section 242, which pertains to the Deprivation of Righ...

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President Lincoln, President Johnson and Congress had differing ideas on how to reconstruct the United States. After the assassination of President Lincoln, Congress and President Johnson had to answer two questions, did the South leave the Union and if they did leave, should the United States punish them for treason? President Lincoln and President Johnson promised easy terms of reintegration into United States. ... President Johnson's first proclamation was to offer the former Confederates "amnesty and pardon, with restoration of all rights and property" if t...

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By 1840 cotton was one of the major crops in over half of the United States exports. ... Florida was welcomed into the Union and Texas was taken in possession and was being divided into five different states. ... Over the past twenty years Michigan had held a high position among the states of the Union. ... We stand by the Constitution and all its compromises," (pg. 216 Wheeler & Becker) declared David Wilmot. ... The Wilmot Proviso wanted to help the Union by following the Constitution concisely. ...

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George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government.... The first amendment of the Constitution prohibits Congress from taking away one's right of speech, press, petition, as well as religion, which is a valuable part of being an American. ... That's a luxury that Americans get when we turn 16 and they fight for the freedoms all American women gained when congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution on June 4, 1919. ... On April 26, 2015 the United States Supreme Court le...

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Equality and true fulfillment of the Constitution of the United States of America was very recent. ... The FBI, and other federal bureaus would be sent to the South to investigate malpractices that clearly violated the Constitution such as lynching and not giving equal rights to minorities. ...

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Although King's dream was far from being foreign to the Constitution of the United States, it was the fact that one line was disregarded and never fully implemented. It clearly states, in our constitution that we all have equal rights, in everything that we do. ... His dream was to unite Americans of varying skin color, and give blacks the opportunities they deserved to have as citizens of the United States of America. ... In 1924, all Native Americans were made citizens of the United States, but they remained second-class citizens. ...

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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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... With the exception of Tennessee, all Southern states refused to follow the 14th Amendment. ... The act: put the South under militar...

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The United States government highlighted an ambition reconstruction plan. ... When did the American South become less distinctive from the rest of the United States? ... In the United States, Slavery had a significant role in shaping the south. ... Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, advocated a vision of the "New South" at the New England club in New York. ... National pride would sweep the nation, and we would become united, even if only for a while. ...

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In the 1800's there existed the Free states and those states that were classified as slavery states. ... Other states from the north formed what they termed as union states. ... The confederate states formed by the southern states ignored to conference. ... Rights of the States The U.S is composed of different states and these states have their own rights. ... The constitution which was their unifying factor did not mean much to them but just another agreement between the states of the U.S (James & Michael, 210). ...

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So proslavery advocates arose in these states and tried to persuade Kansas and Nebraska to approve slavery. ... As the newly elected president of the United States has it, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery." Without any hesitation, President Abraham Lincoln immediately gives his assertion in the crisis that afflicted the United States. ... Twenty-three states, with a population of 22 million, remain in the Union. ... The constitution held the supreme law of the land and was to be enforced. ...

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Introduction Senator Strom Thurmond was the oldest and longest serving member of the United States Senate despite unpopular opinions. ... By March 30th 1869, ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees that all people regardless of race, creed, or color, "shall not be denied or abridged- the right to vote (http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/amend15.htm). ... Upon his return to the states a war hero, he resigned his judgeship to run for governor in 1946 (Clymer, Adam. ... Adam Clymer of the New York Times states "In 1964, Mr. ... Adam Clymer states, "...

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A woman plays an important role, still, the constitution prevented them to do or be great things in life. ... "Nowhere in the civilized world save the United States of American do men, possessing all civil and political power, go out in bands of 50 and 5,000 to hunt down, shoot, hang, or burn to death a single individual, unarmed and absolutely powerless....

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For the United States there are a few examples of wars that defined who we are as a country. ... However, one war stands out above the rest for the United States, the Civil War. ... The Civil war was like all civil wars was fought between two factions residing a country, for this war it was the United States and the players were the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy. ... What also compounded the issue was that the South had but a third of the railroad mileage that was in the United States and a fraction of the total registered shipping. ... In 1776 the United States fought a war to ...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. ... Whereas, most of the Northern states believed a strong central government was essential to a prosperous nation. ... During and before the nineteenth century, immigration to the United States increased drastically. ... This fear came because during the beginning years of the war, President Lincoln exercised his powers beyond what the constitution allows. ...

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The 15th Amendment was passed in 1870 to the Constitution. ... By any means possible politicians from southern states decided to resist the court's decision. ... The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarly nonviolent struggle to bring full Civil Rights and equality under the law of Americans. ... Background Throughout the history of the United States, African Americans have resisted, first against the institution of slavery and later second-class citizenship and racial segregation. ... In the United States, the most outstanding theoretic...

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What was the chain reaction that followed the Rosa Parks incident? In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman refused to vacate a bus seat for a white male. When she was arrested many black citizens of the town, Montgomery, formed a group to protest. Rosa Parks could never have imagined the e...

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• That the Constitution, as originally written and intended, is the finest system of government ever conceived by man. ... Picture yourself in the southern states, in the late 1860's after the Civil War. ... It's not so much that they completely hated the black race, but more that they felt the whites should reign all-powerful and should control the United States of America. ...

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In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. ... In the northern states the Civil War began as a fight against the succession of the Confederate states from the Union. Abraham Lincoln, who was President at this time, wanted to save the nation by bringing the southern states back to the Union, but this "Great Emancipator" ironically did not have much intention of freeing the slaves. ... Along the way, convoluted legal questions involving the Constitution and slaves as property had to be got around (Fincher). ...

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This is known as The Atlantic Smalls 2 Slave Trade and during its course shipped over a million slaves to the United States. Slavery was most prominent in the south, and when the threat that the slaves would be freed when Abraham Lincoln was elected scared the southern states, especially South Carolina and Georgia. ... One of the most significant events in African American history is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited the states Smalls 5 from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting (Memory). ...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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