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8.2- US Constitution
5.The ideas contained within the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and Mayflower Compact were later used to create the US Constitution. 6.The Articles of Confederation created a weak alliance of states that left the country bankrupt and without a strong central government.
8.2- US Constitution
7. The Constitution created a strong central government with three equal branches that would create, carry out, and judge the laws of the country. 8. After the Constitution was created, the AntiFederalists believed that the Congress needed to add a Bill of Rights to better protect the American people. 9. The Federalist Papers helped to convince a divided America why their country needed the Bill of Rights.
8.2- US Constitution
10. Our founding fathers believed that the church and state should be separate, because of the conflicts that arose between European monarchies and the pope. 11. The Bill of Rights provides a method for the government to accept new powers and grant further rights to its citizens. 12. There are 10 Amendments contained within the Bill of Rights, and 27 Amendments in total. 13. Government provides a number of powers that allow it to run efficiently, while separating its duties, and creating greater equality between its branches.
8.11- Reconstruction
88. Lincolns attempts at Reconstruction were aimed at healing the country, not at punishing the south. Reconstruction (1865-77) was an attempt to rebuild southern states.
8.11- Reconstruction
89. Lincolns assassination in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth negatively affected the norths ability to create lasting peace- southerners refused to ratify the 13th Amendment, and they passed black codes, which limited the freedom of blacks. President Andrew Johnsons stubbornness also contributed to the rocky transition. 90. Moderates and Radical Republicans pushed for Reconstruction in different ways: Moderates wanted to slowly transition southern society and leadership; the Radicals demanded equal rights for all freedmen and wanted to destroy the souths ruling class.
8.11- Reconstruction
91. Johnson and Congress clashed on black rights- Johnson felt blacks might rise up if they had equal rights, and that the government might become too centralized. 92. The 14th Amendment granted blacks their citizenship but did not grant them suffrage.
8.11- Reconstruction
93. The Ku Klux Klan rose in power during the 1870s and was made up of ex-southern soldiers. Although President Ulysses Grant squashed the political power of the Klan, Southern mistreatment of blacks continued into the 1890s. 94. Jim Crow Laws created segregation legal in southern theatres, trolleys and cemeteries; in Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were separate but equal. 95. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, while the 15th Amendment granted suffrage rights to blacks, and represented an important victory for the Radicals.