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TH3_HIGH_CHI3F :
Andrew Johnson did not "take away" a formal, government-sanctioned system of reparations in the modern sense. However, he did play a decisive role in reversing a specific initiative that provided land to formerly enslaved people, which is often cited by historians as a major lost opportunity for economic independence for Black Americans after the Civil War. Here is the breakdown of what occurred: The "40 Acres and a Mule" Initiative In January 1865, Union General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15. This order set aside a large tract of coastal land (stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. Johns River in Florida) to be settled by formerly enslaved families, with each family receiving up to 40 acres of land. Some of these families were also loaned army mules. Andrew Johnson’s Intervention When Andrew Johnson became president following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he implemented a policy of blanket amnesty for most Confederate rebels. Restoration of Land: As part of his reconstruction policy, Johnson ordered that land confiscated from Confederates—including the land that had been settled by freedmen under Sherman’s order—be returned to the original white owners who had taken up arms against the Union.
2026-05-31 16:32:29
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malcolmxlugo :
Wow 😮
2026-05-31 16:43:01
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B3K2XE :
Dixiecrats (the States' Rights Democratic Party) were white Southern Democrats who broke away from the national party in 1948 in opposition to its pro-civil rights platform. Over the next few decades, many of these voters and politicians eventually transitioned to the Republican Party. The 1964 Shift: The realigning of the South accelerated when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prominent figures like Dixiecrat leader Strom Thurmond officially switched to the Republican Party that year. The Southern Strategy: In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Republican Party used a so-called "Southern strategy" to appeal to the racial grievances and conservative values of disaffected Southern Democrats.
2026-06-01 16:57:42
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TH3_HIGH_CHI3F :
The Outcome: Federal agents were dispatched to inform the formerly enslaved families living on these plots that they had to vacate the land or sign labor contracts to work for the white landowners. Most were forced off the land they had been cultivating, effectively destroying the most significant effort at that time to provide Black Americans with the economic foundation of land ownership.
2026-05-31 16:33:18
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olifladget :
the old dixicrats are in the republican party now. Better known as The Heritage Foundation. They run the white house and the supreme court today
2026-06-01 17:36:25
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