This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which created a new republic by wiping out the governments of the Confederate ...

"Some declaratory act on the subject of reconstruction" cannot possibly do harm, but, on the contrary, may do good, if it be framed with an honest adherence to the spirit of the existing law.

Spring and Summer 1867 : Congress passes three radical Reconstruction Acts, dividing the Confederacy into military districts, and giving the military power over the judiciary and politics in the ...

The popular impatience and despondency in regard to political matters gave place yestorday to something like a feeling of satisfaction at the prospect of Congress taking some such action on the ...

But on March 2, 1867, Congress passed what historian Heather Richardson calls “one of the most important pieces of legislation in history”: the Military Reconstruction Act. “The reason it ...

Northerners backed the congressional Republicans, and they returned to Washington ready to take command. In March 1867, Stevens and Fessenden helped pass the first two Military Reconstruction Acts ...

And key issues that are on our agenda today were fought out for the first time in Reconstruction.” In 1867, Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, requiring new state governments to be set up ...

Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867. However, after Reconstruction, many Southern black men were swept into peonage though different methods, and the system was not completely ...