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1 Major Political Events
2 Members of the Fourteenth United States Congress

Fourteenth United States Congress

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1815-1816

Major Political Events

Members of the Fourteenth United States Congress


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Constitution of the United States - MSN Encarta (1954 words)
Congress enacts laws, leaving enforcement of the laws to the executive branch and interpretation of them to the judicial branch.
Georgia in favor of the Cherokees in a treaty dispute with the United States.
United States the court struck down a federal gun control law that required state officials to conduct a background check on gun buyers.
Segregation in the United States - MSN Encarta (2450 words)
After the war, the nation adopted three constitutional amendments—the 13th (1865), ending slavery; the 14th (1868), making fls citizens of the United States and prohibiting state laws that denied citizens equal protection under the laws; and the 15th (1870), prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
The codes were slightly different from state to state, but they usually contained limitations on fl occupations and property owning, and vagrancy laws under which fls could be forced to work for whites if they were considered unemployed.
Congress, especially its Republican members, wanted to ensure that the South was rebuilt with the newly freed fls as viable members of society.
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