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Explore the votes of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American man elected to the Senate
In 1965, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which eliminated restrictions racial, ethnic, and national origin restrictions on immigration and established priority immigration procedures for family reunification.
The Senate failed, barely, to secure a two-thirds majority in favor of convicting President Andrew Johnson
The 22nd Amendment, which established term limits for the Presidency of the United States, passed with some bipartisan support.