Congress passed several Reconstruction Acts. Congress overrode a presidential veto of an act that divided the South into military districts and placed the former Confederate states under martial law pending their adoption of constitutions guaranteeing civil liberties to former slaves.
Ohio does not apply its sales tax to sales of goods to churches, charities, schools, colleges, universities, government agencies, public utility companies, restaurants, cafeterias, farmers, ranchers, food processors, commercial fishermen and volunteer fire departments.
All Ohioans must pay sales taxes on clothes, electronics and other tangible goods they buy through the stateâs merchants and retailers. The statewide sales tax rate is 5.5 percent, but counties and cities add their own levies to that base tax.