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The House Select Committee on Reconstruction was a select committee which existed the United States House of Representatives during the 40th and 41st...

A similar House Select Committee on Reconstruction existed in the House during the 40th and 41st Congresses. A similar Senate committee, the United...

the House Committee on the Judiciary), was run by the House Select Committee on Reconstruction. The second inquiry ran from its authorization on January...

States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (commonly referred to as the January 6th Committee) was...

PA), was referred to the House Select Committee on Reconstruction. On February 22, the House Select Committee on Reconstruction released a report which...

House of Representatives. Congress, on December 4, 1865, rejected Johnson's moderate presidential Reconstruction, and organized the Joint Committee on...

Select Committee on Reconstruction. Despite Thadeus Stevens being the chair of the committee, the membership of the House Committee on Reconstruction...

Select Committee on Reconstruction. Despite Thadeus Stevens being the chair of the committee, the membership of the House Committee on Reconstruction...

before the Judiciary Committee, and while it was thought that the majority of this committee favored the bill, they evaded voting on it.: 98–98  There were...

and wrote a platform calling for civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction. Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating...

The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over...

quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant...

original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2008. Masur, Louis P. (2015). McPherson, James (ed.). Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the...

party's founding before the American Civil War in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. They were known for their loyal support of...

White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House from...

Grant on January 29, 1877. The Act provided that the Electoral Commission was to consist of fifteen members: five representatives selected by the House, five...

Though the decision in the Slaughter-House Cases minimized the impact of the Privileges or Immunities Clause on state law, the Supreme Court would later...

proceeded by focusing not on whom to blame, but on how to rebuild the nation as one. Lincoln led the moderates in Reconstruction policy and was opposed by...

The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American...

with more than 1,500 standing, special, select, or joint committees over the years. Most of these committees are now defunct. In some cases, their responsibilities...