"NO nation can enslave a group of people for hundreds of years, set them free "bedraggled and penniless "pit them, without assistance, in a hostile environment against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. ... Government had benefited from the slave labor of African Americans. ... Government. The Inuit were compensated by the Canadian government. The Australian government compensated the Aborigines. ...

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This Ten Percent Plan meant that all new governments would agree to abolish slavery once in for all. ... Congress and the government gave exceptional benefits towards the outcome of black people striving for independence. During the war, Congress passed the Second Confiscation Acts, saying that any captured slaves would be set and forever free. ... By this employment class, the government helped out by creating the share-cropping procedures, which meant that crops would be sold within each other to make a profit. ... (T517) The black people did not get any protection from the government in til...

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These amendments were not helpful because the government and the white people did not follow these laws until the mid-1900's. ... In the 1883 Civil Rights Cases, the Court ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery but did not prohibit discrimination and the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited discrimination by the government but not by individuals. Homer Plessy, a black citizen of Louisiana, sued a railroad company for preventing him from entering a railroad car set aside for whites. ... In conclusion, Africans Americans were given many civil liberties but the government and the w...

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Most white southerners claimed that the blacks that won office during Reconstruction were incapable of running the government. ... Southerners simply were unwilling to accept any form of government in which blacks and northerners played a significant role. ... All this proves that the federal government had no idea what they were getting into in terms of the elongated governmental supervision of America. ... The federal government was simply unprepared to take on the massive commitment of long-term supervision. ... Supposedly, North and South reached a compromise: black civil liberties and r...

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While the articles of confederation was a decent starting point, it did not deal with a lot of the modern issues the government faced. The newly formed government had to deal with slavery, unbelievable taxing, poor business, criminals, and angry people who could not even vote. ... The main goal behind the constitution was to set inalienable rights that could be practically timeless, as it is still used in modern times, but with clearly changed rules for changing times. ... The thirteenth amendment was set in place to put a real end to slavery, but did not fully succeed without federal supervis...

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On hearing about a major news event, millions of Americans then turn to their television sets or radio to learn more". ... On the other hand, other presidents wrote these words: "When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe", and "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free none ever will", "The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being". I don't believe that the government should regulate this medium/industry in order to preserve the rights of our society and its ...

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The government knew that the recovery period after the civil war would not be quick, and by 1933 the South was in a state of chaos with prices for farm products being at an all-time low, and the cost of living was steadily increasing. ... Union organizers had no one to turn to because everyone at the state level were still on the side of the white, and on the federal level the government said they were doing all they could meaning the threat of violence was always present. ... Still the idea of racial integration to achieve common goals helped set the stage for the civil rights era. ... FDR&...

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With the different orders of men that god hath set forth, slavery can be thought of as moral. An example of how this is true is government. In government, everyone has a specific job to do. However, people are judged by the importance and respectability of the job they do inside of government. ... The concept of a hierarchy in government can be transferred to slavery. ...

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Blacks also had to face unfriendly and unwelcoming communities, sometimes even in places where camp was set up. ... The government at the time had provided these jobs through the CCC with the hopes of helping the unemployed and their families during the depression, not to further consent segregation. ...

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The radical republicans felt the emancipation would not work unless the government could guarantee equality of all citizens including black men. In December 1863 Lincoln declared a general plan for Reconstruction promising to recognize the government of any state that pledged to support the Constitution and the Union and to emancipate the slaves if it was backed by at least 10 percent of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election (Encyclopedia Britanncia). ... The Radicals set up their own plan of Reconstruction in the Wade-Davis Bill which required not 10 percent but a majority...

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He argues with King the struggle for civil rights set a precedent for the violence, and asserts antiwar and civil rights protesters abuse the concept of civil disobedience. ... The demonstration was the pressure that forced the government and the people to confront segregation and rethink if the segregation law was right or wrong. ...

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In addition, he states how Morgan's acquisition of Carnegie and Rockefeller's industrial empires combined would eventually set the stage for financiers to truly control the power of the industries and, along with the rise of poverty in large urban areas & the anger of the discontent rural population, would contribute to the later populist and silverist movements. ... Finally, Brands stresses that Spanish-American War combined with the serious drawbacks of American control in Cuba further disheartened the American public against even democratic imperialism and drifted the American gov...

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Dubois believed strongly in agitation of the public and government to get what was needed. ... They were able to set goals and take strides toward them, plus letting the government know that these things would happen. ...

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Congress now had to decide on how they were going to address such topics as; Black equality, rebuilding of the South, admission of southern state to the Union, and deciding who would control the government. ... The Radical Republicans surfaced as the country's dominant political party and with the majority in Congress they set the goals for reconstruction. ... The Government did not yet understand the importance of economic equality in the freeing of a people. ...

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For the world to carry on with some kind of order, rules and standards must be set. ... Therefore, if you are writing a letter to a government organization, such as a police station, it should be kept on a professional level. ...

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Washington teaches that if you work hard and can learn the basic skills, and a useful task, then you will be set in your life. ... The incident resulted in the bridegroom paying a fine, Many government officials at the time were part of the repression, that is why the teachings of Washington was not very applicable in this case. ...

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African American citizens have endured the unequal terms set by the Constitution. ... Financial security for these families need both corporations and government to come up with and adopt policies that show what the workforce and family structure actually look like in the present day, to push the kinds of productivity and ability that allow us all to actually achieve the American dream. ...

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Board of Education case 1954, Thurgood Marshall's practitioner approach fought segregation by means of implicating the laws previously set forth by the constitution. ... (Hofstadter, 442)" The Brown decision had placed the federal government on the side of those who saw segregation as evil. ...

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A generation that will continue to champion and maintain the set values for prosperity of America. ... Using advertisement campaign they argued that by appointing judges the "far-right" government was overstepping its mandate. ...

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