Ratification. Mending the Family Kettle. The U.S. Senate passed the proposed amendment by the required two-thirds majority on June 8, 1866, and the House of Representatives passed it on June 13, 1866, which sent it to the states for ratification. No Virginians served in Congress when it submitted the amendment to the states.
The Father of American Railroads. John Stevens (1749-1838) was the scion of a prominent family in colonial New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War he served as state treasurer. In the postwar period he became intrigued by experiments in steam navigation by men such as John Fitch.
Frederick Douglass â Father of Americaâs Civil Rights Movement. Frederick Douglass was a man who continually reinvented himself and would, in time, create the modern American civil rights movement and reshape American politics. The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, âFrederick Augustus Washington Baileyâ was born in February of 1818 on Marylandâs eastern shore.