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Kansas Nebraska Act Abraham Lincoln
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Taft Hartley Act Fair Labor Standards
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War On Terror Presidential Election
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Franklin D Roosevelt Supreme Court Justice
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Taft Hartley Act Fair Labor Standards
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Third Party Candidates Franklin D Roosevelt
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3,483 wordsThe Black Vote: African Americans as an Interest Group The African-American community is comprised of 34 million people, and makes up approximately 12. 8 percent of the American population (Barker, Jones, Tate 1999: 3). As such, it is the largest minority group in the United States. Yet, politically, the black community has never been able to sufficiently capitalize on that status in order to receive the full benefits of life in America. Today, African-Americans, hold less than 2 percent of the ...
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3,203 words1. Who were the Scalawags? ? Scalawags is the name given to native or local whites who supported the Rep party. The origins of the word is uncertain but the term came from Scalway, a district in Seton Island, where small cattle lived. Used in US before the Civil war to mean scrawny or undersized cattle. It was also a synonymy for good for nothing. Southern conservative whites found the scalawags uniquely hateful. Blacks were considerable more understand then the faults of a scalawags who was con...
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