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S. Grant who was a Republican was against the Democrat Horatio Seymour, who was a Democrat. This election was very crucial for people in the state and the future condition and laws to be

Girding for War: The North and South (Pg. 377) What menacing circumstances greeted Lincoln upon his ascension into the White House? Menacing circumstances that greeted Lincoln upon his ascension into the White House was the disunity of seven departed states and eight on the edge. The Menace of Secession (Pg. 377) What potential future and present problems with a disunited America did Lincoln concentrate on in his first inaugural address? Lincoln 's goal throughout his presidency was to bring the nation

even though slavery and segregation has ended in the United States, racism is an extremely important topic. African Americans and people of other races are still facing the problems they did 100 years ago. One symbol of this is the Confederate flag. The Confederacy supported slavery, a now proclaimed ‘unconstitutional’ act. The Confederate flag is still being flown in some Southern states today, and they are offending thousands of United States citizens. The Confederate flag should be taken down in

failures of the reconstruction period, after the United States’ civil war. In the presidential elections of 1860, Republicans led by Abraham Lincoln opposed the idea of slavery into United States' territories. Although Lincoln had won the elections, by March 4, 1861, seven cotton plantation-based slave states formed the Confederacy. Lincoln’s first movements insisted that republicans would not initiate civil war, leading eight remaining slave states to reject immediate calls for secession. There

The Confederate Flag The Confederate Flag is the symbol for the Southern state in the Civil War. It is not just pieces of material. The flag represent families and where they came from. Flags have been a part of history since the beginning of time and the Confederate flag is a large part of the United States history. People need to learn what the flag has represented. The true meaning. Not what they think the flag has represented. Teaching the meaning of the Confederate flag needs to start in the

the Alamo still burn strong in my heart. While Texas is generally used by many to describe the geographical location of the state, the word “Texan” takes on a whole new meaning from someone coming from another state. In Texas, I have discovered timeless traditions, southern hospitality and state pride like no other. Texan is not a title determined by birth, but a diverse state of heart. To put it simply, to be Texan is to be the best. When I was a kid, and I moved from the plains of Colorado to the

the actions of white southern began to cause further issues towards the development in the United States. Chapter two “The Lockdown” than proceeded as racism began to grow towards the law enforcement, and the development of Southern whites creating the Ku Klux Klan. Alexander argues about the crackdown of unreasonable searches occurred under law enforcement, and how African Americans are targeted. Alexander begins with the myths provided towards slavery in the United States, and how African American

Kari Frederickson's work, The Dixiecrat Revolt, examined the growing disenchantment of Southern Democrats to the federal government, President Truman, and ultimately, the Democratic Party. These Southern conservatives rebelled against the Democratic Party in the 1948 Presidential election resulting in the eventual political realignment of the South to a two-party system, and the rise of the Republican Party within that system. The two chapters of Robin D.G. Kelley's book, Race Rebels, studied the

The Ku Klux Klan is a gang with a notorious past. The clan started off as a group of people defying the southern state’s laws, but it turned out to be one of the most terrifying gangs of the nineteenth century. It all started during the election of Ulysses S. Grant, when most of the democrats in the south created groups to terrify the African Americans. It was a violent gesture to any of the minorities who wanted to gain political attention. They banded together in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865, consisting

Constitution abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and provided equal protection to formerly enslaved people. However, most southern states figured out ways to avoid these new laws and continued to deny the social and political rights of African Americans. Laws were passed and other measures were enforced by white southerners to produce a society separated by race. Specifically, southern legislatures passed new segregation laws which were referred to as the Jim Crow laws. These laws were apparently created