- United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65 Summary Statistics
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United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
Cite as: Christopher Vizcardo, Mary Nelson, Erica Croft, Edward Goebel, Antony Jackson, Kiana McAllister, Matt Rands, Joseph Stanley, Annabel Harris, Lauren Davis, Elizabeth Green, Louise Navarro-Cann, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2019).
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A summary view for the full record of the convention
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Sources:
12 historical records used for this dataset.
Process:
15 committees met in 279 sessions. Average 23.25 sessions each.
Dates from Monday, 07 December 1863 to Friday, 03 March 1865.
People:
266 people in 29 voting delegations.
Top 5 most active people are:
- Schuyler Colfax (195 events)
- Thaddeus Stevens (107 events)
- Henry L. Dawes (77 events)
- Rev. W. H. Channing (75 events)
- Hannibal Hamlin (72 events)
Summary of person events:
- 556
join a committee. - 12
leave a committee. - 12
elections to a position.
Procedures:
1419 procedural motions considered.
Summary of procedural events:
- 1419
procedural motion proposed. - 221
motions debated.
Documents:
150 documents considered with 95 amendments presented.
Summary of document events:
- 150
new documents created. - 121
documents passed from another committee. - 93
amendments to a document proposed. - 255
debates on a proposal.
Decisions:
1626 number of decisions made.
Summary of decision made:
- 911
proposals adopted. - 149
proposals rejected. - 85
proposals referred to another committee. - 21
debate of a proposal postponed. - 46
proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote. - 21
some other decision on a proposal.