Corporate influence can reach various parts of societies through all sorts of different means, as they have seemingly endless supply of financial resources. ... Peter Sterns Thus by extending their global reach, they are in effect replacing people's culturally specific identity with a consumer identity which will inevitably redefine the individual in terms of products. ... Before corporations had the able to alter elections, it was a felony for them to give money to politicians, political parties, or try to even influence the election in any way. ... They expanded on this basic right to ...

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Although not all ex-slaveholding Confederates were Democrats, a vast majority pledged their allegiance to the conservative values of the political party which brought about the end of Reconstruction. ... The way in which conservative southerners sought to achieve this racist goal was through joining the Democratic Party, which was directly responsible for the end of Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson, the leader of the post-Civil War Democratic Party, was himself a "confirmed racist." ... Like many of his racist fellow party-members, Johnson disliked Reconstruction and wanted to see it en...

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These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights and of the Democratic Party. ... Johnson's decision to support the return of the pre-war social and economic system except for slavery cut short any hope for a redistribution of land to the freed-people or a more far-reaching reform program in the South. ... These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights andof the Democratic Party Most importantly, Johnson's strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for blacks is responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem ...

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Once that state reached ten percent of the people taking oath, the state could form a state government. ... Election of 1876 - In the 1876 election Tilden was the winner when the votes were counted but in 3 states both parties claimed victory. ...

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Lincoln was against slavery, and against its spread into the Western territories, but along with many in his party, believed that it would eventually fade away without conflict. ... No agreement has been reached on its cause so there is no clear understanding of how it should be rectified. ...

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President Lincoln's major goal was to strength the Republican Party in the South. ... The official reconstruction of the south ended in 1877, but the attitudes have taken over a hundred years to change, and the attempt to make that change reached a boiling point during the 1960s. ...

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