This Massachusetts group of women were called the
Daughters of Liberty and they are known for putting matters into their own hands.
During the “Coffee Party” their attention was diverted to a local merchant who
hoarded coffee and refused to sell it to the people, the women decided to put
matters into their hands by forming an assembly of women with carts and trucks,
they walked to the warehouse and insist to get the key from the merchant, one
of the women attacked him which forced the merchant to give up the warehouse key. The women opened
the warehouse and took all the coffee.
Beginning in 1873, a series of Supreme Court decisions limited the scope of Reconstruction-era laws and federal support for the so-called Reconstruction Amendments, particularly the 14th and 15th, which gave African Americans the status of citizenship and the protection of the Constitution, including the all-important right to vote. Bill, passed by Radical Republicans in Congress in 1867, that treated Southern states as divided territories. Sometimes called the Military Reconstruction Act or the Reconstruction Act, the First Reconstruction Act divided the South into five districts, each governed by martial law. It was the first of a series of harsher bills that the Radicals passed that year.
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Hope this helps,
Davinia.
