Britain adopted this political theory as much as it could. ... Liberal theories also influenced the British government's reluctance to intervene in the time of the 1930's depression. ... The unification of Italy was also based on a liberal theory. ... When a woman married she lost all legal status. ... In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. ...
With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights guaranteed to a member of a community, state, or nation. ... The constitution of the United States contains a Bill of Rights that describes simple liberties and rights insured to every person in the United States. Although the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, civil rights were not always respected to all human beings, especially women and blacks. ....
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...
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...
