Congress authorized the prohibition of immigration to America from China; the first bill to ban immigration from any foreign country.
VoteView enables you to view the numbers for every congressional vote in the history of the United States. It is currently maintained by the UCLA Department Of Political Science.
Explore current and historical political parties, map party control, and learn about polarization.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
On July 25,1861, Congress declared that the purpose of the Civil War was the preservation of the union rather than the abolition of slavery.
