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I. Call for 75,000 Volunteers. April 15, 1861
2.
Proclamation declaring a Blockade of Southern Ports. April 19,
1861
3. Act for the Collection of Duties. July 13, 1861
4. Act for a National Loan. July 17, 1861
July 22, 1861.
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5. Act authorizing the Employment of Volunteers. July 22, 1861
6. Resolution on the Nature and Object of the War.
7. Indemnity for State War Expenses. July 27, 1861
8. Act for calling out the Militia. July 29, 1861
9. Act to define and punish certain Conspiracies.
10. Supplementary National Loan Act. August 5, 1861
Confiscation Act. August 6, 1861
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12.
Act authorizing the Seizure of Railroad and Telegraph Lines.
January 31, 1862
13. Act prohibiting the Coolie Trade. February 19, 1862
14. Act authorizing the Issue of Legal Tender Notes. February 25,
1862
15. Act for an Additional Article of War. March 13, 1862
16. Act authorizing further Purchase of Coin. March 17, 1862
- 17. Joint Resolution on Compensated Emancipation. April 10, 1862.
-18. Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia. April 16, 1862
-19. Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary States.
Abolition of Slavery in the Territories. June 19, 1862 .
21. Anti-Polygamy Act. July 1, 1862
23. Election of Representatives by Districts. July 14, 1862
- 24. Confiscation Act. July 17, 1862
25. Act to authorize Payments in Stamps. July 17, 1862
26. Militia Act. July 17, 1862
27. Act admitting West Virginia. December 31, 1862
28. Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1863
29. Act to punish Correspondence with Rebels. February 25, 1863.
30. Act to provide Ways and Means for the Support of the Govern-
ment. March 3, 1863
31. Enrolment Act. March 3, 1863
32. Act relating to Habeas Corpus. March 3, 1863
33. Act for the Collection of Abandoned Property. March 3, 1863
34. Resolution against Foreign Mediation. March 3, 1863
35. Proclamation of Amnesty. December 8, 1863
36. Supplementary Enrolment Act. February 24, 1864
37. National Bank Act. June 3, 1864
38. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law.
June 28, 1864
39. Intercourse with Insurrectionary States. July 2, 1864
40.
Enrolment Act. July 4, 1864
41. Act to encourage Immigration. July 4, 1864
42. Proclamation regarding Reconstruction. July 8, 1864
43. Electoral Count. February 8, 1865
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45. Freedom for Soldiers' Families. March 3, 1865
47. Proclamation appointing a Governor for North Carolina. May 29,
49. Proclamation declaring the Insurrection at an End. April 2, 1866 139
50. First Civil Rights Act. April 9, 1866
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59. Command of the Army. March 2, 1867
61. Payments to Disloyal Persons. March 2, 1867
51. Supplementary Freedmen's Bureau Act. July 16, 1866
52. Restoration of Tennessee. July 24, 1866
53. Election of Senators. July 25, 1866
54. Franchise in the District of Columbia.
55. Elective Franchise in the Territories. January 31, 1867
56. First Reconstruction Act. March 2, 1867
57. Tenure of Office Act. March 2, 1867
58. Act of Indemnity. March 2, 1867
60. Abolition of Peonage. March 2, 1867
62. Second Reconstruction Act. March 23, 1867
63. Treaty with Russia for the Cession of Alaska. March 30, 1867
64. Third Reconstruction Act. July 19, 1867
65. Act suspending Reduction of the Currency. February 4, 1868
66. Articles of Impeachment. March 2-3, 1868.
68. Act admitting Arkansas to Representation in Congress. June 22,
1868
69. Act admitting North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama, and Florida to Representation in Congress. June
25, 1868.
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71. Oath of Office. July 11, 1868
72. Joint Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of the Late Rebellious
States. July 20, 1868
73. Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States. July 27, 1868
74. Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. July 28, 1868
75. Proclamation granting Full Amnesty. December 25, 1868
76. Provisional Governments of Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi. Feb-
ruary 18, 1869
77. Extradition Act. March 3, 1869
78. Act to strengthen the Public Credit. March 18, 1869
79. Equal Rights in the District of Columbia. March 18, 1869
80. Amended Tenure of Office Act. April 5, 1869
81. Submission of the Constitutions of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas.
April 10, 1869
82. Reconstruction of Georgia. December 22, 1869
83. Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress. January
26, 1870.
84. Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. March 30, 1870.
85. Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. May 31, 1870
86. Redemption and Bank Note Act. July 12, 1870
87. Naturalization Act. July 14, 1870
88. Act for refunding the National Debt. July 14, 1870
89. Act for the Restoration of Georgia. July 15, 1870
90. San Domingo Commissioners. January 12, 1871
91. Supplementary Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. February
28, 1871.
92. Act to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. April 20, 1871.
93. Treaty of Washington. May 8, 1871
98. Resumption of Specie Payments. January 14, 1875
99. Civil Rights Act. March 1, 1875
94. Act removing Political Disabilities. May 22, 1872 95. Supplementary Federal Election Law. June 10, 1872 96. Coinage Act. February 12, 1873 .
97. Act regarding United States Notes and National Bank Currency. June 20, 1874 ·
100. Joint Resolution for the Issue of Silver Coin. July 22, 1876
Electoral Count Act. January 29, 1877
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102. Coinage of the Standard Silver Dollar. February 28, 1878
103. Act forbidding the further Retirement of Legal Tender Notes.
May 31, 1878.
105. Purchase of Bonds. March 3, 1881
106. Anti-Polygamy Act. March 22, 1882
107. Act restricting Chinese Immigration. May 6, 1882
108. National Bank Circulation, Bonds, and Gold Certificates. July
12, 1882.
109. Civil Service Act. January 16, 1883
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III.
112.
Contract Labor Act. February 26, 1885
Presidential Succession Act. January 19, 1886
February 8, 1887
March 3, 1887
Act prohibiting Special Laws in the Territories. July 30, 1886
113. Electoral Count Act. February 3, 1887
114. Interstate Commerce Act. February 4, 1887
115. Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians.
116. Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories.
117. Retirement of the Trade Dollar. March 3, 1887
118. Anti-Polygamy Act. March 3, 1887
119. Chinese Exclusion Act. September 13, 1888
Anti-Trust Act. July 2, 1890
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November 1, 1893.
December 17, 1895
122. "Original Package" Act. August 8, 1890
123. Anti-Lottery Act. September 18, 1890
124. Immigration and Contract Labor. March 3, 1891
125. Repeal of the Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
126. President Cleveland's Venezuelan Message.
127. Alien Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories.
128. Recognition of the Independence of Cuba. April 20, 1898
129. Declaration of War. April 25, 1898
130. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. July 7, 1898
131. Treaty of Paris. December 10, 1898
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