In the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Congress split the former Confederacy into five military districts and required the former states to ratify the 14th Amendment and adopt new state constitutions ...

"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.

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 ...

In 1867, Congress passed its first Reconstruction Act to divide the South into five military districts and place them under martial law. The goal was to “readmit” the states into the Union by ...

So-called Reconstruction state governments ... government they held in the antebellum period, Congress passed the 1870 Enforcement Act. The new law cracked down on the Klan, to be sure (one ...

Kevin McGruder is an associate professor of History at Antioch College. The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have ...

(b) In response to the ills just recited, Congress and the White ... of Administrative Procedure Act, and Expedited Review of Contested National Reconstruction Permits—The Council shall render ...

The two-page bill, dubbed the Baltimore BRIDGE Relief Act, would have the federal ... pay for the entire cost of its reconstruction, and that he expected Congress to support the effort.