The oceans are the Earth's largest carbon storage medium, so if the atmospheric CO2 increase were natural, it would likely be coming from the oceans. But we know the CO2 increase is not coming from the oceans, because the pH of the oceans is dropping (a.k.a. ocean acidification).
1866 civil rights act. congress's response to the black codes which decalred blacks to be citizens of the United States and gave the government power to intervene in state affairs to protect the rights of its citizens.adical reconstruction. Occurring shortly after the civil war these changes included radical republicans efforts such as work on a civil rights bill (which was vetoed by Johnson), the 14th amendment, and the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875. Image courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Before entering Congress in 1873, Representative James Rapier of Alabama worked as a newspaperman, a cotton planter, and as a state civil servant. On this date, the House passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by a vote of 162 to 99. First introduced by one of Congressâs greatest advocates for black civil rights, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, in 1870, the original bill outlawed racial discrimination in juries, schools, transportation, and public accommodations.