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 control given to the government was still in question at both the Federal and State level; As well as how to rebuild the nation and handle the growth and change. ... It changed our society as a whole, our government changed and so did the economy. The government's role expanded for example the 16th Amendment (income tax), the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and The Federal Reserve Act (to supervise banking and provide national currency) was established. ... "Other factors controlled by the Republican dominated government was the appointing of big business advocates to the regulat...

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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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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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Road construction boomed, especially when the federal government introduced the system of numbered highways in 1926. c. ... The Business of Government A. ... Under the progressive leadership of Roosevelt and Wilson, the federal government had passed laws to break monopolies, protect workers, and restrict the absolute freedom of business leaders. d. ... Government Bans Alcoholic Beverages a. ...

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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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Government. ... To emphasize his point, in 1838 (one year after Jackson left office), a unite of federal troops rounded up the 15,000 Cherokee who resisted relocation and remained in Georgia and during the cold and rain of winter forced them to march to their lands in the west, this was known as the "Trail of Tears" since about 25% of the people died in route of either disease, starvation, and exposure to the cold. ... In retaliation of this insulting lack of concern of the South's voice in government, South Carolina acting on the doctrine of Nullification which stated that the union wa...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. ... In this bill, the Senate objected to the idea of Congress protecting African- American voters in the South through federal supervision of state elections. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their state, not national, government. ... The Supreme Court had permitted the legal route for subordination of the Blacks to be opened; the new, now limited, amendments were n...

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The reason for that being was the fact that they ran most of the cities or governments. ... As blacks struggled to defend themselves, they learned that sheriffs and law enforcement officials, mayors, governors, the FBI, the federal government, the attorney general of the United States, and even the president participated in one way or another in the maintenance of a system of segregation that declared black people inferior and denied them equal Access to the labor market and to educational opportunity Edgar The black groups saw that the Society that was supposed to help them was against th...

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The "Lost Cause", the tension between federal and local government, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of freedom in America are still intertwined in most people's memory of this war. ... The protestor's sentiments point to the question: whether the reminiscence of this historical event serves as a symbol of Southern Pride, a defense of heritage, or as a statement of defiance against Northern Federal dominance. ... A: Because it was conclusive evidence to an unbiased mind that the Federal supplies and forces greatly outweighed and outnumbered the Confederate forces....

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First, the Union had to be reunited and control of the Southern state's governments had to return to normal. ... Whites still played a dominant role in government, but not to the extent that they did before black suffrage. ... Blacks were forced to rely on the Radical Republicans and Federal troops to give them their rights, and they maintained their rights through the period of occupation. ...

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Even though many were financially ruined by their dealings in the South many still entered a political struggle to clean up the Southern government. ... Recognizing that there were very few Southerners who were involved and supported the Republican Party, many carpetbaggers joined the ranks and held position in Southern governments. ... An exaggeration but none the less, it's not hard to believe that the rebels would oppose such a government composed of foreigners. ... The author tells us how the rebels vilified Longstreets name and circulated rumors that he had sold out himself so he ...

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They were ready to shoot down the enemy (Union Army) and destroy the Federal government. ... It seems the White government of some southern states couldn't stand the idea that Blacks were equal to Whites. ...

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The Watts and LA riots Tension between the LAPD and African Americans boiled over and had its hand in starting the Watts riots. The traffic stop of Marquette Frye made the community believe excessive force was used. Once the residents of the Watts suburb witnessed Marquette, his brother and mother g...

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There existed major differences between these states over the authority of the government to halt and illegalize slavery. ... There were calls to end the recession but these states paid a deaf ear to the calls to avoid receding and even went further to seizure some forts of the federal governments (Guezlo, 61). ...

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First there was the Revolutionary War which the soon to be Americans threw off the yoke of an oppressive English government under the war cry, "no taxation without representation.... They also lacked a strong leader in the mold of the North's Abraham Lincoln and their constitution as they had it set up concentrated too much on Sate and individual rights and not enough on the Federal side of things. ...

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