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aepps20
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The new subway signs that New York actually needs
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As soon as I saw the question my answer was Reconstruction
Reconstruction isn't taught with much detail in America and it's by design too
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Reconstruction is the easy (and correct) answer but let's throw in the labor struggle, the Battle of Blair Mountain, company towns and all...if people kept in mind that their ancestors fought bled and died for their right to a weekend we might not still be working 40+ hours a week after a whole *** century.
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My union hall has a huge memorial and exhibit on all the people who got killed by the police here on strike 100 years ago.
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Absolutely. I always point people to these two articles:
Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out…
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How the South Won the Civil War
During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
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And we're watching them do it again, only this time they don't have to work as hard.
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I have to be honest, I was actually rooting for Texas to beat Bama. Seeing this picture now, it brings a tear of joy to my eye knowing texas lost.
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RTR
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Thank you for this article.Absolutely. I always point people to these two articles:
Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out…
An honest discussion of the current state of American politics can no longer dismiss this observation and the link it creates between confederates and modern-day conservatives.
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"I miss sex"
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His finance left me? 
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FianceeHis finance left me?
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Ohh I know I’m just pointing out his spelling error. If that’s a real post, most of those people are stupid. I don’t saw it during all the tea party protests and now with all these MAGAs.
Even more sinister.
The Union / Lincoln elected a Confederate Vice President (Andrew Johnson) before the Civil War ended in order to "bring the country together".
OG "Good people on both sides".
6 weeks later, the Confederates assassinated Lincoln.
At that very moment, the Confederates won the War.
The presidency of Andrew Johnson began on April 15, 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 6 weeks when he succeeded to the presidency.
Johnson implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction, a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to reform their civil governments. Southern states returned many of their old leaders and passed Black Codes to deprive the freedmen of many civil liberties, but Congressional Republicans refused to seat legislators from those states and advanced legislation to overrule the Southern actions. Johnson vetoed their bills, and Congressional Republicans overrode him, setting a pattern for the remainder of his presidency. Johnson opposed the Fourteenth Amendment which gave citizenship to former slaves. In 1866, he went on an unprecedented national tour promoting his executive policies, seeking to break Republican opposition. As the conflict grew between the branches of government, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act restricting Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet officials. He persisted in trying to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, but ended up being impeached by the House of Representatives and narrowly avoided conviction in the Senate. He did not win the 1868 Democratic presidential nomination and left office the following year.
Johnson returned to Tennessee after his presidency and gained some vindication when he was elected to the Senate in 1875, making him the only former president to serve in the Senate. He died five months into his term. Johnson's strong opposition to federally guaranteed rights for black Americans is widely criticized. Historians have consistently ranked him one of the worst presidents in American history.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” - Abraham Lincoln
The Union / Lincoln elected a Confederate Vice President (Andrew Johnson) before the Civil War ended in order to "bring the country together".
OG "Good people on both sides".
6 weeks later, the Confederates assassinated Lincoln.
At that very moment, the Confederates won the War.
The presidency of Andrew Johnson began on April 15, 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 6 weeks when he succeeded to the presidency.
Johnson implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction, a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to reform their civil governments. Southern states returned many of their old leaders and passed Black Codes to deprive the freedmen of many civil liberties, but Congressional Republicans refused to seat legislators from those states and advanced legislation to overrule the Southern actions. Johnson vetoed their bills, and Congressional Republicans overrode him, setting a pattern for the remainder of his presidency. Johnson opposed the Fourteenth Amendment which gave citizenship to former slaves. In 1866, he went on an unprecedented national tour promoting his executive policies, seeking to break Republican opposition. As the conflict grew between the branches of government, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act restricting Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet officials. He persisted in trying to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, but ended up being impeached by the House of Representatives and narrowly avoided conviction in the Senate. He did not win the 1868 Democratic presidential nomination and left office the following year.
Johnson returned to Tennessee after his presidency and gained some vindication when he was elected to the Senate in 1875, making him the only former president to serve in the Senate. He died five months into his term. Johnson's strong opposition to federally guaranteed rights for black Americans is widely criticized. Historians have consistently ranked him one of the worst presidents in American history.
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” - Abraham Lincoln
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He has her beat boxing by the end lmao
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She sounds like a bad *** kid getting caught in a lie.
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