• John Tyler Morgan wrote an article called “the race question in the US”
• Morgan was responsible for defeating important reconstruction bills being The Blair Bill and the Force Bill
• Morgan said that because the US government passed the 13^th and 14^th and many more bills trying to protect African American rights that they imply their inferiority
• Morgan also argues that there would still be a “race question” if these African Americans were not previously enslaved/came from a history of slavery (ie if they were to immigrate to the US)
• Also says that no race can co-exist with the white race
• He argues that african Americans haven’t earned their freedom/rights because they never fought back to gain it. Points to Africa and how white Europeans ended slavery there and that white americans gave blacks their freedom
• Believes that the white race is so clearly superior that its natural
• Blames the race conflict on the US government (say there was no problem until the government got involved)
• Argues that slave laws were a good thing for everyone in the south including blacks.
• Says that the pride of men will be more resistant to any movement, social or political, that drastically affects their lives
• The answer to the race question is for the full separation of the races under different governments

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• Samuel George Morton collected a lot of skull over 1000 and 600 of which were native americans
• Morton was very popular but had a hypothesis that races could be ranked based on objective physical appearances
• Morton used BBs to fill the cranial cavity of skulls to determine brain size for different races
• It was found that Morton fudged the numbers to fit prior convictions but not on purpose
• In his works Morton stated his own prejudice on the matter
• Morton used bad statistics to find that a difference in skull size to be 5 cubic inches in native americans and Caucasians
• With corrective statistics there ended up not being a significant difference between the two groups