Congressional Reconstruction

• Justifications for intervention

• Congress passes Freedmen�s Bureau extension and Civil Rights Bill (Feb. 1866)

• Johnson vetoes both bills

• Congress overrides veto of Civil Rights Bill (April 1866) and Freedmen�s Bureau Bill (July 1866)

• Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment (June 13, 1866)

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