The Framers of the Constitution gave the President the power to veto acts of Congress in order to prevent the legislative branch from becoming too powerful. Congress can override a veto by passing the act by a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate.
Erik the Red. Erik the Red, byname of Erik Thorvaldsson, Old Norse Eirik Rauð, Icelandic Eiríkur Rauði, (flourished 10th century, Norway?), founder of the first European settlement on Greenland (c. 985) and the father of Leif Eriksson, one of the first Europeans to reach North America.
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The Voting Rights Act<span>, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, </span>1965<span>, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented </span>African Americans<span> from exercising their right to </span>vote<span> under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.</span>
The Ku Klux Klan began in 1866 in Tennessee as an organization of Confederate veterans of the Civil War. They derived the name "Ku Klux" from the Greek word κύκλος (<em>kuklos) ,</em> which means circle. The group became a resistance movement against radical Reconstruction in the South, seeking to intimidate blacks and restore white supremacy. The group carried out many acts of extreme violence, and acts in Congress and a decision by the Supreme Court <em>(United States v. Harris, </em>1882) went against the Klan. By that time, though, the Klan had mostly stopped operating because it had pretty much achieved its goal: white dominance in the South.
A revived version of the Klan appeared again beginning in 1915, expanding its target beyond blacks to Jews and others. At its height in the 1920s, this revived version of the Ku Klux Klan had more than 4 million members. Today it is a fringe group in the US, with only a few thousand members.
