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The Road to Civil War

Cite as: Erica Croft, Kiana McAllister, Annabel Harris, Lauren Davis, Elizabeth Green, Louise Navarro-Cann, Mary Nelson-Hill, Mizuki Hassell, Grace Penn, Paul Calica, Matt Rands, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, The Road to Civil War, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2025).

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Tue, 1 Jan 1861Mon, 1 Apr 1861Mon, 1 Jul 1861Tue, 1 Oct 1861Wed, 1 Jan 1862Tue, 1 Apr 1862Tue, 1 Jul 1862Mon Dec 03 1860Thu Jul 17 1862The House of RepresentativesThe SenateCommittee on the Judiciary of the SenateCommittee on the District of Columbia of the SenateSenate Committee of the WholeCommittee of Elections of the House of RepresentativesCommittee for the District of Columbia of the House of RepresentativesCommittee of the Whole on the State of the Union of the House of RepresentativesCommittee on the Territories of the House of RepresentativesCommittee on Territories of the SenatePresident of the United StatesCommittee on Enrolled BillsCommittee on the Judiciary of the House of RepresentativesSelect Committee of Thirty-Three of the House of RepresentativesSenate Special Committee of Thirteen on the Condition of the CountrySpecial Committee of Five of the House of RepresentativesSenate Special Committee of Five

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10 historical records used for this dataset.

Process:

17 committees met in 307 sessions. Average 30.7 sessions each.

Dates from Monday, 03 December 1860 to Wednesday, 16 July 1862.

Person icon People:

449 people in 34 voting delegations.

Top 5 most active people are:

Summary of person events:

  • 719 Person join icon join a committee.
  • 50 Person leave icon leave a committee.
  • 12 Person elect icon elections to a position.

Procedure icon Procedures:

1986 procedural motions considered.

Summary of procedural events:

  • 1986 Procedural motion icon procedural motion proposed.
  • 548 Debate motion icon motions debated.

Document icon Documents:

164 documents considered with 158 amendments presented.

Summary of document events:

  • 164 Create a new document proposal new documents created.
  • 119 Document copied documents passed from another committee.
  • 158 Document amended amendments to a document proposed.
  • 621 Debate a document proposal debates on a proposal.

Voting icon Decisions:

2274 number of decisions made.

Summary of decision made:

  • 1181 Vote adopt icon proposals adopted.
  • 314 Vote reject icon proposals rejected.
  • 120 Vote refer icon proposals referred to another committee.
  • 8 Postpone debate icon debate of a proposal postponed.
  • 164 Vote drop icon proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote.
  • 32 Vote drop icon some other decision on a proposal.

List of proposals by delegation

List of proposals by person