The Republicans, under Jefferson and Madison, believed that individual rights are imperative to the success of the union rather than a strong federal government. ... The topic of assumption of state debts by the federal government illustrates the broader argument of federalism versus republicanism, and has continued as an American economic disagreement many years after the American Revolution. ... Alexander Hamilton, a passionate Federalist, proposed to Congress in January 1790 that the federal government assume all of the state debts, therefore allowing the money to be paid back more efficien...

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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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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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Both moderate and Radical Republicans alike criticized Johnson for his ideas concerning freed people's rights and his strong fear of excessive legislative power in the federal government. ... It declared that "no legal government" existed in the South and divided the region into five military districts. ... Republicans, even many Radicals, were fearful of the federal government infringing on individual liberty by confiscating land. ... (Reconstruction: The Radical Republican Governments in the South). The rights of these people were often only secured with the use of federal troops sent i...

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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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Reconstruction was a time in which the federal government prescribed methods, laws and a means for the southern states to reenter the union and install a free labor system. ... These vastly different ideas and opinions created much turbulence throughout all the branches of the federal government. During the four administrations of government throughout the Reconstruction period, these opinions shifted and resulted in changing Reconstruction efforts. ... The plan would allow any states minority to create a new state government if the 1860 vote were at least ten percent (10%). ... The 15th ...

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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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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 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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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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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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They also favored the use of federal power to alter the Southern economic system. ... They wanted the planters punished and the blacks protected by federal power. ... 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. ... It gave power to the government to use its forces to physically end these problems. ...

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Aside from showing the similarities and differences of these two documents, I will also explain how the differences reflect different philosophies of government. ... Constitution and the Confederate Constitution play an important role in showing the form of government in which they provide for, as well as the differences between them. ... Constitution provides for a strong centralized form of government. ... On the other side, the Confederate Constitution is a weak centralized form of government. ... This is why the Confederate Constitution goes by the governmental philosophy of a weak central...

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Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. ... Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... In the 1940's and 50's things changed, not because attitudes in the south wsa changing, but because the government forced them to. ... A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but t...

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Beyond this the federal government had nothing to do with it, it was all up to the individual states. ... He also showed very little or no interest in giving these people federal protection in a time when they needed it the most. ... He was trained as a doctor, but his republican views created controversy with the government of Napoleon III. ... Andrew Johnson, President of the United States had governors of each state, but the South still organized military governments and ignored the governors. Many changes were taking place whether they were the changes the government wished for, or ...

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With the South in a state of desperation it was clear that the federal government needed to take action. ... Johnson's Jacksonian convictions for a truly united nation led him to insist on the speedy restoration of Southern governments based on the prewar white electorate. ... Tilden, "We have just emerged from one civil war, and it will not do to engage in another civil war it would end in the destruction of free government." White supremacists, with the intention of reestablishing their dominance, soon followed the "Mississippi Plan," which called for the restoration of Southern conser...

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Brown and five of his sons became involved in the struggle between proslavery and anti-slavery forces for control of the territorial government in Kansas. ... On Oct. 16, 1859, they seized the town that occupied the federal arsenal. The town soon surrounded by local militia, and the next day, federal troops under Robert E. ...

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The confederate states became to take over federal arsenals and military bases in their territory. ... The assassination of Lincoln was part of a large plot to kill several leaders in the Union Government. ... Twelve days later federal troops found booth in a tobacco barn. ...

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He stated that"...the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federal development of self government entrusted to us. ... This want for new territory, would cause boundary issues and fears to arise soon after the Revolutionary War with the fledgling government of the United States. ... This caused some politicians in government to fear that America had a possibility of being taken over. ... The Mexican government knew that the threat of United States' "ri...

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