My theory, the real reason that the war was fought was about expansion West and not about slavery. ... This feeds into the theory that if African-Americans were not disenfranchised, they would have gained control of the South. ... Ferguson, upheld Jim Crow creating a legal sanction for the separate but equal rule, immediately resulting in a separate and unequal standard for black people. On one hand, the Federal Government would make laws to protect the rights of African-Americans, while on the other, when Africans-Americans were denied those rights, and told that they were inferior, those l...

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