The White League, also known as the White Man's League was a white paramilitary organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to kick Republicans out of office and intimidate freedmen from voting and politically organizing. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana and neighboring parishes, made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state The Red Shirts was a similar group that formed chapters in Mississippi and the Carolinas. Active during the later years of Reconstruction, these paramilitary groups were described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party." Through violence and intimidation of blacks and allied whites, their members suppressed Republican voting and contributed to the Democrats' taking control of the Louisiana Legislature in 1876 (and to Democratic control in other southern states).After white Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1876, members of the White Leagues were absorbed into the state militias and the National Guard.
Truman used his executive power to increase the rights of African-Americans in the military. They claimed that they would not join the draft and would organize protests and marches if they were not given rights like the white soldiers, so he used his executive powers to appease them.
<span>James Knox Polk, the eleventh President of United States advocated the annexation of Oregon and Texas. He got the approval from the congress when Mexican troops killed 16 US soldiers during the aggression led by U.S. General Zachary Taylor across the disputed area to the banks of the Rio Grande in 1846 By using a combination of military threats and diplomacy, Polk managed to arrive at a compromise with England that set the 49th parallel as the Oregon Territory's northern boundary and expanded through the west.</span>
<em><u>vests the power of the executive branch in the office of the president of the United </u></em><em><u>States.</u></em>
They came to America expecting to immediately find gold so a lot of people ended up being ill prepared due to mining once they disembarked as opposed to setting up any real shelter at least some of the English settlers did, I am not so sure about other nationalities settlers