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 ...

Republicans had a variety of different reasons for supporting such an amendment. In the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Congress had forced black suffrage on the ex-Confederate states by statute ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

The Republicans then passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which set the conditions the Southern states had to accept before they could be readmitted to the union, including ratification of the ...