The writs of assistance were documents that worked as a general warrant order for British officers on merchant boats or buildings, they could enter and search any building and boats were they thought that they were hidding smuggled goods. The writs of assistance were stated by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1760, as a response to the trading of the american colonies with the French and other trade-forbidden empires.
The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protect civil and political rights of blacks were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of blacks voters.
