Hist 105

Beginning of the Civil War and the end of Civil Right Era

Mirna El Hadi

American Intercontinental University

History 105

Dr. Donald Burnette

March 31, 2013

Abstract

In this paper I will be describing the two examples of U.S. federal government expansion of authority between the beginning of the U.S. Civil War and the end of the Civil Rights Era. As I am identifying and describing the U.S. federal expansion of authority, I will have three contexts that are the importance of the developments in the United States which are Political, Economic, and Social structures.

Beginning of the Civil War and the end of the Civil Right Era

There was an expansion of federal power during the Civil war. The first major expansion of federal government didn’t allow confederate states of America which known as separation. The federal government had removed of states form the Union, but right after the war, the Reconstruction Era saw opportunities to be accepted Revolutionary changes on defeated Southern States. The federal government ensured Civil Rights to all competitions, rather than state and local authorities make such decisions.

The second major expansion was the Progressive Era. This Expansion began as a social movement to support the lives and general conditions of Americans. The movement consumed the government to raise such changes. In 1901 the new regulations encouraged by progressive philosophy and began to put implemented. Five years later the Hepburn Act have official permission for federal government to control railroads rates, the pure food, the Meat Inspection Act, Drug Act, and many more Acts. Also, the progressive had a win that was well known as the 19th Amendment, which gave the right to vote for women. However, the 16th Amendment made the federal government to plan a federal income tax.

Economically, the Civil War was not equal. The South doesn’t have factories to produce guns or ammunition. Also, the railroads were small and not...