Confederate Governmental Struggles Unlike the Confederate army, the Confederate government was never able to achieve much success during the Civil War. After the initial camaraderie between southern states in the early days of secession, the weaknesses of the Confederate governmental structure soon became...
When the U.S. formed its first central government in 1781, they united under the Articles of Confederation which was replaced in 1789 by the U.S. Constitution. In 1861, the southern states in the U.S. which had seceded from the Constitution formed the Confederate States of America....
What was the Republic of Texas?Texas:Texas is a US state today, located along the country's southern border. Before being part of the United States, however, Texas was part of Spain's colonial possessions and then part of Mexico following Mexico's independence war....
The U.S. Constitution does not directly address the issue of secession; Article IV limits itself to the accession of new states and the division or fusion of existing states.16The beginning of the document contains the phrase, "in order to form a more perfect Union," which is often interpr...
Ford's infamous pardon of Nixon was a preemptive pardon, since Nixon had not been charged with a crime. Former President Jimmy Carter also issued preemptive pardons for Vietnam draft evaders, as did Lincoln in the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which allowed for former Confederates...
“If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states. Were he to have too great influence over one, this would alarm the rest. Were he to subdue a part, that which would still ...
Banning The Confederate Flag On Campus The pattern of the flag as a symbol is not cut and dry. The flag that we know as the Confederate Flag today was actually never the Confederate Army’s official flag. It was the Confederate battle flag of Northern Virginia. It is now a part of the...
The Reconstruction Era was a period in US history from 1865 to 1877 in which the Confederate states were reintegrated into the...
Civil Liberties and the Constitution TheConstitutionas written in 1787 did not include aBill of Rights, although the idea of including one was proposed and, after brief discussion, dismissed in the final week of the Constitutional Convention. The framers of the Constitution believed they faced much...
The purpose of the compromise was that southern democrats would only accept Hayes as the president and give back the civil rights to the African Americans in the south after some of their demands were met, for instance the withdrawal of federal troops form confederate states, appointment of a ...