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The Constitution also establishes and limits the authority of the Federal Government over the states and emphasizes that power of the states will serve as a check on the power of the national government.
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<span>Lincoln did not win the majority of the electoral votes
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Southern blacks lost rights in the years after the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments because the North withdrew many of the troops that had been enforcing these new laws, leaving southerners to pass a series of Jim Crow laws that prohibited blacks from voting, gaining jobs, and a variety of other things in the South.