"Members [of Congress] joined in the shouting and kept it up for some minutes. Some embraced one another, others wept like children. I have felt ever since the vote, as if I were in a new country." This statement was made in response to
a. the impeachment of President Johnson.
b. creation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
c. passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
d. approval of the proposed Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
d
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