| Congress debates restoring political rights of Southern States on May 2, 1866. They debated questions such as did the South deserve to have political rights and autonomy after the war? | Congress debates restoring political rights of Southern States on May 2, 1866. They debated questions such as did the South deserve to have political rights and autonomy after the war? | | Southern Rights |
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Subject:Southern Rights |
Description:The United States Senate debates the pros and cons of giving political rights to Southern states after the insurrection.
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| Congressional Debates for May 14, 1866. | Congressional Debates for May 14, 1866. | | Congress Debates
Fourteenth Amendment
Joint Committee on Reconstruction. |
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Subject:Congress Debates
Fourteenth Amendment
Joint Committee on Reconstruction. |
Description:Senator Stewart reports on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction to Congress. The committee drafted the initial amendment before Congressional debates began.
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| Dallas Herald March 7, 1868 | Dallas Herald March 7, 1868 | | Dallas Herald
Congress |
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Subject:Dallas Herald
Congress |
Description:Impeachment resolutions against President Andrew Johnson. The article depicts Congress and its actions to impeach Johnson such as the eleven articles of Impeachment because of his attempts to hinder Radical Republicans' actions to protect Freedmen. [show more]
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| Dredd Scott v. Sandford. | Dredd Scott v. Sandford. | | Dredd Scott
Supreme Court of the United States
American Civil War. |
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Subject:Dredd Scott
Supreme Court of the United States
American Civil War. |
Description:Dredd Scott ruled that African Americans cannot be citizens. This decision was voided by the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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| First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress reported in the New York Herald. | First Session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress reported in the New York Herald. | | Thirty-Ninth Congress
New York Herald |
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Subject:Thirty-Ninth Congress
New York Herald |
Description:The first session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress and the Freedmen's Bureau Bill reported in the New York Herald.
Various Northern and Southern newspapers reported on Congressional debates and discussions to provide the public a glimpse of the workings of government. [show more]
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| Freedmen Village. | Freedmen Village. | | Freedmen
Reconstruction. |
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Subject:Freedmen
Reconstruction. |
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| Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing rations to the old and sick / from a sketch by our special artist, Jas. E. Taylor. | Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing rations to the old and sick / from a sketch by our special artist, Jas. E. Taylor. | | Freedmen's Bureau.
Richmond, Virginia. |
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Subject:Freedmen's Bureau.
Richmond, Virginia. |
Description:Print shows African Americans gathered outside the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond, Virginia. A woman is handing a slip of paper through a window to a man seated inside.
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| Grant & Colfax Nominated | Grant & Colfax Nominated | | Ulysses S. Grant
Schylur Colfax
Republican Nomination |
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Subject:Ulysses S. Grant
Schylur Colfax
Republican Nomination |
Description:Grant & Colfax receive the Republican nominations for President and Vice President. Grant served as President for two years until Rutherford B. Hayes became President.
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| H.R Senate Debate June 4, 1866. | H.R Senate Debate June 4, 1866. | | H.R. 127
United States Senate |
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Subject:H.R. 127
United States Senate |
Description:The United States Senate continues to debate H.R. 127. Various debates in Congress on the Fourteenth Amendment continued in Congress through 1866 before it was sent to the states for ratification.
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| John A. Bingham Biography | John A. Bingham Biography | Reference. | Biography of John A. Bingham, principal framer of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. He served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction as well as a United States Representative from Ohio from March 4, 1855, to March 3, 1873, and as a U.S. Ambassador to Japan from October 7, 1873, to July 2, 1885. He passed away on March 19, 1900. |
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Type:Reference. Subject:Biography of John A. Bingham, principal framer of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. He served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction as well as a United States Representative from Ohio from March 4, 1855, to March 3, 1873, and as a U.S. Ambassador to Japan from October 7, 1873, to July 2, 1885. He passed away on March 19, 1900. |
Description:Biographical Dictionary of United States Congress.
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