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Reconstruction era legislation
Freedmen's Bureau billsPresident Abraham Lincoln signed the Freedman's Bureau Bill into law on the 3rd of March 1865. This act created an agency within the United States Army to…
Civil Rights Act of 1866On the 5th of April 1866, the Senate voted to override President Andrew Johnson's veto of a major bill. This marked the first time Congress ever overrode a…