The Slaughterhouse Cases was as a result of an 1869 Louisiana legislation that granted the monopoly of the slaughtering business to one corporation, which led to a court suit by other slaughterhouses that said that such legislation infringed on their privileges as American businessmen.
The case was lost by a five-to-four majority stating that states retained jurisdiction over citizens and federal rights did not extend to the property rights of the aggrieved.
The problem that this brought was that cities were not able to control businesses.
It was one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, and gave rise to the Compromise of 1877 by which the Democrats conceded the election to Hayes in return for an end to Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
The Executive Committee of the National Security Council was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
