Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era<span> in the United States of America was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent </span>black<span> citizens from </span>registering to vote<span> and voting. These measures were enacted by former </span>Confederate<span> states at the turn of the 20th century, and by Oklahoma upon statehood</span><span> although </span>not<span> by the </span>border slave states<span>. Their actions defied the intent of the </span>Fifteenth Amendment<span> to the </span>United States Constitution<span>, </span>ratified<span> in 1870, which was intended to protect the </span>suffrage<span> of </span>freedmen<span> after the </span>American Civil War<span>.</span>
The Tree of Peace is a symbol of unity among the Five Nations of the Iroquois people, and its place within the Iroquois Constitution lends permanence to their bonds. Taken together, the fire and the tree symbolize the peaceful union that the Peacemaker brokered among the Iroquois people.
<em>Liberalism is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints.</em>
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