Social developments that led to the revolution include the expansion of industry, the federal government gaining more power, and the first welfare system in America. ... By having a national currency, it could be easier to maintain the government; state authority does not come before federal authority. ... Although the federal government had these laws in place, that does not mean that people followed them. ... Now that the federal government had more power, there was a chance for ex-slaves to gain more rights and a higher status within society. ... The federal government could create Amendm...

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The federal government attempted to use many laws to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, such as the Civil rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans the right of citizenship and forbade other states from passing their own discriminatory laws. ...

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The federal government favored the new industries as opposed to agriculture. During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with the latest in farm technology, and to produce more food. ... As a point of interest I saw an article that document what the government paid farmers during and after the war. It's important to keep in mind that during the war the government was paying farmers roughly $2 a bushel for wheat and after they go...

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This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... Starting with several cases in 1989, the Supreme Court has restricted affirmative action by: "[giving] greater weight to claims of reverse discrimination, outlawed the use of minority set-asides in cases where prior racial discrimination could not be proved, and placed stricter limits on states' use of racial preferences than it did on the federal governme...

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Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. ... In such cases, courts have generally insisted on applying "strict scrutiny"-the most intense level of judicial review-to government actions. Under this tough standard, the use of race in governmental decisions making may be upheld only if it serves a compelling government objective and only if it is "narrowly tailored" to advance that objective (Kennedy 70-74). ... If the fede...

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Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. Compassion to help the underprivileged also attributed to government making the first step to take action. ... This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. Within months, Executive Order 11246 was implemented prohibiting discrimination for federal employment from race, creed, religion or national origin. ... This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and ...

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The war put constitutional government to its severest test as a long festering debate over the power of the federal government versus state rights. ... The government was saying in effect, that ignorant, loyal men who are black are not fit to vote, but ignorant" loyal men who are white are. [Under Johnson's Reconstruction policy, as white Southern states re-established their governments, which in DuBois words, "looked backwards" toward slavery.] ... Across the South, so-called "Black Codes" passed by the new state governments, imposed a range of oppressive measures that amounted to a seco...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. ...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. ...

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African-Americans pleaded with the government to do something to stop the lynching. "The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. ... Sometimes African-Americans were murdered for no reason at all and the federal government couldn't do anything about it. ... Lynching really did not stop until the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which provides federal intervention in cases of injury to all citizens of the United States. ...

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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. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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This act also authorized the federal government to bring to court any person, store or school, or any other public facility if they failed to desegregate. ... In his plan, he demanded that the government would give a federal annual income for the poor people. ...

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"Affirmative Action" which to him would encourage contractors who financed with federal funds to racially integrate their work forces. This executive order told federal contractors to " take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during their employment, without regard to race creed color or natural origin" The current status of affirmative action whether it is good or not still remains undeclared. For instance, in 1996 California voters approved proposition 209 which was an initiative that would end affirmative action throughout the state in publ...

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FDR called Randolph for a meeting, where Randolph made the following three demands: Immediate end to segregation and discrimination in federal government hiring, an end to segregation of the armed forces and government support for an end to discrimination and segregation in all American employment. ... Executive Order 8802 stated that federal government hiring practices would not be affected pr determined by race, color, creed, or national origin. The FEPC was supposed to enforce the order to ban discriminatory hiring within the federal government and in corporations that received federal co...

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With out any opposition from the blacks and the unity of the strong central government there was no need to create a laws constricting the power of the Afro Brazilian population. ... Natives were given the hope that if the British won they would be given their freedom and a say in the new government. ... The Dutch took advantage of the English's policy of appeasement and basically took over the government later voting to become free from the control of English Imperialism. ... South Africa was more of a centrally power based government rather than a regionally based or state based governm...

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The whites, as was intended, were the major benefactors of this system, as the system stated that they must own the vast majority of the land and that the South African federal government consist of only whites, therefore making all political decisions pro-white. ... In 1964, Nelson Mandela, the popular leader of the African National Congress, an organization to combat apartheid, was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the South African government. ... Until that time only white students had attended the school, despite a federal order that barred continue...

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Civil Right and Racial Discrimination The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is applicable to private and public employers (except federal employers) and protects all members of other ethnic groups (i.e., whites, blacks, Asians, etc ) from racial discrimination. ... The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission states under the Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, " protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin, sex, or religion-(Alexander, 2001). The Federal government also says that, "Discrimination on the basi...

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At the same time, wages rose all across the board while the government spent almost ten times more than previously for war efforts. ... The huge amount of government spending had led to high levels of federal taxation, and this feature, largely in income tax, still remains today, making it quite a significant change. ...

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This statement is correct for a number of reasons, first and foremost was the fact that the southerners (both black and white) were expecting some sort of federal aid, and the fact that it was close to the Christmas season only elevated the futile feelings of optimism. ... Rumors had been circulating between the union soldiers and the blacks that the government was going to give them land and "other necessities of economic independence"(p.8). Another factor that led the blacks to believing that a government solution was going to be implemented by Christmas was the fact that "Christmas had lon...

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This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. ... However, this civil rights movement did not accomplish its goals to the fullest due to the lack of government enforcement. ... During Reconstruction, favorable legislation was passed for blacks, but the turn of the century brought back ...

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Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was prompted to have his aides draft an executive order to not only end segregation in the defense industry and the government, but mainly to have A. ... Executive Order #8802 states in part: "I do hereby affirm the policy of the United States that there should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2...

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Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was prompted to have his aides draft an executive order to not only end segregation in the defense industry and the government, but mainly to have A. ... Executive Order #8802 states in part: "I do hereby affirm the policy of the United States that there should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2...

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The constitution and government and state regulations prohibit any open attack or assault on blacks. ... There are a lot of black people working for the government in the USA. This means that the federal states and the government believes in the black people and trusts them with high importance jobs. ... The solution could be for the government to make better laws for black people. ...

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The need for order had Americans look up to the government for the solution. As the government was faced with new tasks it grew rapidly. The local government grew along with its many new responsibilities: professional police, public libraries, expanding school systems, banking and transportation oversight, constructions, etc. The federal government also grew very quickly in revenues, in agencies, in administrative autocracies, etc. ...

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Point number two looks at the federal government and its responsibility and obligation to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. ... The black community believes that the United States government uses its police forces to oppress the black, colored and poor people. ... • We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U.S. federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. ... That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government become...

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