The Peonage Abolition Act of 1867 was an Act passed by the U.S. Congress on March 2, 1867, that abolished peonage in the New Mexico Territory and elsewhere...

Spanish pronunciation: [peˈon]) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or...

The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove...

representative. Angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which opened the territories to slavery, he became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached...

Congress passed the Anti-Peonage Act of 1867 for African-American laborers, reformist Indian agents used the law to restore the rights of Indian workers. Despite...

enforcement was lax. The Peonage Act of 1867 specifically mentioned New Mexico and increased enforcement by banning nationwide "the holding of any person to service...

The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service...

July 19, 1867: Congress passes the third Reconstruction Act, creating a system of military government throughout the South. August 12, 1867: Johnson suspends...

Command of the Army Act, preventing his removal or relocation, and forcing Johnson to pass orders through Grant. In August 1867, bypassing the Tenure of Office...

As the conflict grew between the branches of government, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act (1867), restricting Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet...

Department of the Treasury. The Act shaped today's national banking system and its support of a uniform U.S. banking policy. At the end of the Second Bank of the...

Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver...

documentary history of emancipation 1861–1867 : selected from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States. The destruction of slavery. CUP Archive...

relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners, 1852, Utah Territory Peonage Act of 1867 Abolition of slavery timeline Abolitionism in the United Kingdom Abolitionism...

needed] John Surratt stood trial in a civil court in Washington in 1867. Four residents of Elmira, New York,: 27 : 112–15  claimed they had seen him there...

The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the...

Chapter 21-I of 42 U.S.C. § 1994 and makes no specific mention of New Mexico. With the Peonage Act of 1867, Congress abolished "the holding of any person...

Massacre of 1874, or Coup of 1874, took place on election day, November 3, 1874, near Eufaula, Alabama in Barbour County. Freedmen comprised a majority of the...

After the Civil War, Congress passed the Peonage Act of 1867, aiming to abolish the historical system of peonage that had existed among the Hispano population...

Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867), was an important United States Supreme Court case involving the disbarment of former Confederate officials. In...

Resumption Act of January 14, 1875 was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption of previously unbacked...

The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a United States federal law intended to offer land to prospective farmers, white and black, in the South following...

Prohibition of Voluntary Peonage". Columbia Law Review 112(7), November 2012; pp. 1607–40. Stewart, David O. (2009). Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew...

States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the...

The 1867 Maine gubernatorial election was held on September 9, 1867. Incumbent Republican governor and war hero Joshua Chamberlain defeated the Democratic...

Constitutional conventions of 1867 Habeas Corpus Act of 1867 Peonage Act of 1867 First impeachment inquiry into Andrew Johnson 1867 State of the Union Address...

The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat...

there were 400 slaves in Santa Fe alone. On March 2, 1867, Congress passed the Peonage Act of 1867, which specifically targeted enforcement against the...

Electoral Count Act in 1887 to provide more detailed rules for the counting of electoral votes, especially in cases of multiple slates of electors being...

with Confederates that would begin in 1867, ordered Bureau agents to inform free blacks about the Homesteading Act. Local commissioners did not disseminate...