An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation torn ...
March 1965: Civil rights protesters, led by Dr Martin Luther King, marching for black voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery. March 1965: Civil rights protesters, led by ...
For more than a decade after the Revolutionary War, America was governed by the Articles of Confederation, which provided for only a weak and minimal federal government while allowing states to ...