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RECONSTRUCTION.; Opinion of the United States Attorney-General on the Clauses in the Reconstruction Act Respecting the Right to Vote and Hold Office. ... D. C., May 24, 1867.

On March 2, 1867, Congress abolished the governments of the Confederate states and forced them to create new constitutions and to ratify the 14th Amendment. That act remade America.

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

When the former Confederate states began to establish Black Codes placing severe restrictions on Black people in many southern states, the federal Reconstruction Act was enacted in 1867, after ...

Peter and Elizabeth Gasaway were among the original purchasers of one-acre lots in Barry Farm (later Hillsdale) under the Reconstruction Act of 1867. They owned Lot 14 on Elvans Road.