A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. 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 amount of racism thriving in the Southern states made any chances of the State support of Black rights virtually nil. ... The amendments to the Constit...

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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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.# As a supporter of state's rights and slavery, he helped form the Peace Democrats. ... Both Lincoln and Garfield were unencumbered by military theory, and both were able to view their war with fresh common-sense practicality.# Ben Wade was one of the most radical politicians in the United States. ... Many of his attacks on Lincoln were too well remembered.# He supported votes for women, trade union rights and equal civil rights for African Americans. ... In 1864, Wade sponsored a bill that provided for the administration of the affairs of southern states by provisional governors un...

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