However, even though this was the beginning of freedmen and women of the south working with the government, it was short lived. ... Passed by Congress shortly after the formation of the Joint Select Committee, the Ku Klux Klan Act of Eighteen Seventy-One was a major step in the fight against the attacks by the Klan and put their prosecution in the hands of the federal government. ... Taking power out of the hands of the State governments was exactly what then President Ulysses S. ... With the Act, President Grant was able to "suspend the writ of habeas corpus in nine South Caroline counties ...

• Word Count: 2591
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The government had no way to raise money and no way to raise or collect taxes. ... The delegates had to decide; how big the government should be, what type of government, what powers it should be given, and what powers it should not have. ... The 10th Amendment was also added and it stated, "[ ] the powers not delegated to the United States Federal Government by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the State respectively or to the people (Barker 22)". Or simply stated, all the powers not given to the federal government were given to the states and the people...

• Word Count: 3329
• Approx Pages: 13

They felt little need for a strong central government; in fact, they tended to see it as a potential source of oppression. ... Jefferson was widely supported in the South, which makes evident that many Southerners disagreed with the idea of a strong central government. Jefferson addresses the issue of state rights in his writings "As the federal government grabs more and more power, the question arises: what's the point of having states? ... Under the Constitution, the Articles were replaced with a political system that consisted of a powerful central government with, ultimately, little s...

• Word Count: 3046
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Between 1955 and 1968 acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between government authorities and activists. All levels of government local through federal often had to respond to these crises immediately and were forced to face the inequalities faced by the black Americans. ... The Masons were a self-selecting brotherhood who undertook civic and political activities to improve local communities and influence both state and national governments. ...

• Word Count: 3545
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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."" ...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United States in 190013" whilst Chambers contrasts this, believing "the black codes did not technically re-establish slavery.14" Also in contrast to Sanders is Dunning who states "as the black codes were concerned, it was pointed out that they could not be alleged as a tendency to restore slavery since the offensive acts had in many of the states been repealed by the legislatures themselves and in all had been superseded by the civil rights act.15" I agree with William Dunning to an ex...

• Word Count: 3529
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was now a separate country with its own economy, laws, and government. ... The land was taken from them beginning in 1828 when the Georgia government outlawed the Cherokee government and began to take the land. This continued until 1838 when, despite a Supreme Court order, federal troops drove the last of the Cherokee from the land, that covered Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Oklahoma where many of them died. ...

• Word Count: 2677
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School