In an effort to relieve the caseload burden in the Supreme Court and to handle a dramatic increase in federal filings, Congress, in the Judiciary Act of 1891, established nine courts of appeals, one for each judicial circuit.
It crippled them economically forcing them into cheap labor
Most of the time it disenfranchised them
The black codes were passed which were essentially a set of restrictive laws passed during johnsons presidency which in a lot of states forced black people to sign labor contracts otherwise they would have been fined or jailed or sold back into basically slavery
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The five military zones are called Territories.
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