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Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Subject
History
Place
Northern America
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United States of America
Key-Topics
Native American
DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x
Extract
On 4 December 1865, Congress named a joint committee of nine congressmen and six senators to make proposals on safeguarding FREEDMEN'S rights and readmiting ex-CSA states to congressional representation. Headed by Senator William Pitt Fessenden, a moderate, but dominated by Representative Thaddeus S tevens , it adopted the R adical R epublicans ’ most basic demands for southern R econstruction . It drafted the F ourteenth A mendment . On 20 June 1866, it declared the former CSA states ineligible for congressional representation and asserted that Congress — not the president — should determine the conditions for readmitting them. ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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