American Civil War

Examples of American Civil War in the following topics:

• African Americans

  • During the period before the Civil War, enslaved Black people, and many free Blacks and free people of color were barred from voting.
  • At the end of the war, the fifteenth amendment, ratified in 1870, banned any state from denying the right to vote to any adult male citizen based on his race.
  • The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them.
  • The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
  • In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed.

• The 15th Amendment

  • There was an impressive surge in political participation after the Civil War, due largely to the Reconstruction acts.
  • In the first post-Civil War legislature in South Carolina was 87 blacks to 40 whites.
  • "The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • Civil Rights controversies surrounding Asian Americans include early immigration restrictions and xenophobia during the Second World War.
  • Internment camps during World War II were used to hold Japanese American residents and citizens, who were suspected of anti-American plotting without the benefit of legal proceedings.
  • Immigration policy has played a central role in legal Civil Rights issues affecting Asian Americans.
  • In what is now considered to be a major civil rights violation, thousands of Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II.
  • In 1965, at the tail end of the Civil Rights era, President Lyndon B.

• Separate But Equal

  • Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in American constitutional law that justified systems of segregation.
  • After the end of Reconstruction in 1877, former slave-holding states enacted various laws to undermine the equal treatment of African Americans, although the 14th Amendment, as well as federal Civil Rights laws enacted after the Civil War, were meant to guarantee such treatment.
  • Although the Constitutional doctrine required equality, the facilities and social services offered to African-Americans were almost always of lower quality than those offered to white Americans.
  • The repeal of such laws establishing racial segregation, generally known as Jim Crow laws, was a key focus of the Civil Rights Movement prior to 1954.
  • Discuss the reasoning behind the separate of "Separate but Equal" before the Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights of the Elderly

  • The elderly, or senior citizens, are vulnerable to civil rights abuses due to a propensity for sickness, disability, and poverty.
  • Due to demographic shifts, including increased life expectancy and high birth rates in the post-World War II era, the United States population has grown older in recent years.
  • Roosevelt's Social Security Act funded medical care for aging Americans.
  • Johnson signed the Older Americans Act (OAA) into law.
  • Discuss the civil rights issues that affect the elderly in the United States

• Dual Federalism: From the Civil War to the 1930s

  • America functioned under dual federalism until the federal government increased influence after the Civil War.
  • The theory originated within the Jacksonian democracy movement against the mercantilist American system and centralization of government under the Adams administration during the 1820s.
  • After the Civil War, the federal government increased in influence greatly on everyday life and in size relative to state governments.
  • The reasons were due to the need to regulate business and industries that span state borders, attempts to secure civil rights, and the provision of social services.

• The First Amendment

  • The First Amendment to the US Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights, and protects core American civil liberties.
  • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects American civil liberties.
  • Anti-war protests during World War I gave rise to several important free speech cases related to sedition and inciting violence.
  • The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees Americans the right to a free press.
  • Compare and contrast civil rights with civil liberties with respect to the First Amendment

• Taxation Without Representation

  • "No taxation without representation," a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the British Colonists in the 13 colonies, was one of the major causes of the American Revolution .
  • However, during the time of the American Revolution, only 1 in 20 British citizens had representation in parliament, none of whom were part of the colonies.
  • The phrase captures a sentiment central to the cause of the English Civil War, as articulated by John Hampden who said, "what an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse."
  • This tax, which was only applied to coastal towns during a time of war, was intended to offset the cost of defending that part of the coast and could be paid in actual ships or the equivalent value.
  • It was a cause of the English Civil War, and many British colonists in the 1750s, 1760s, and 1770s felt that it was related to their current situation.

• The Golden Age: 1860–1932

  • In United States history, the Gilded Age was the period following the Civil War, running from the late 1860s to about 1896 when the next era began, the Progressive Era.
  • The dominant political issues included rights for African Americans, tariff policies and monetary policies.
  • In the South, lingering resentment over the Civil War meant that most states would vote Democrat.
  • American history texts usually call it the Progressive Era, and it included World War I and the start of the Great Depression.
  • Foreign policy centered on the 1898 Spanish-American War, Imperialism, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the creation of the League of Nations.

• Primary Sources of American Law

  • At both the federal and state levels, the law of the United States was originally largely derived from the common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War.
  • However, U.S. law has diverged greatly from its English ancestor both in terms of substance and procedure, and has incorporated a number of civil law innovations.
  • Such English statutes are still regularly cited in contemporary American cases interpreting their modern American descendants.
  • But citations to English decisions gradually disappeared during the 19th century as American courts developed their own principles to resolve the legal problems of the American people.
  • Foreign law has never been cited as binding precedent, but merely as a reflection of the shared values of Anglo-American civilization or even Western civilization in general.