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Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a premier, residential, two-year, accredited technical college that prepares students for skilled employment in a diverse, ever-changing workforce. Founded in 1905 with 15 students, Thaddeus Stevens College has grown to more than 1,300 students and 24 high-skill, high-wage technical programs.
Jun 10, 2018 · Amendment ‘father’. “Most historians describe (Stevens) as the manager of the 14th Amendment,” says Matthew Pinsker, an American history professor at Dickinson College and a J.P. McCaskey ...
Thaddeus Stevens, Speech on reconstruction, December 18, 1865. In , December 18, 1865, p. 72. [Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens was a Congressman from Pennsylvania and one of the primary champions of Congressional measures like the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
Thaddeus Stevens was born in Danville, Vermont, on April 4, 1792. He was the second of four boys whose parents were Sarah and Joshua Stevens. Thaddeus’ older brother, Joshua, was born with two clubfeet that made it very difficult for him to walk. In the late 1700s, any physical deformity was seen as a sign from God that the family had ...
Oct 7, 2023 · Thaddeus Stevens ( 4 April 1792 – 11 August 1868 ), also known as The Great Commoner, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860's. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans ...
Digging into a Historic Rivalry. ... Thaddeus Stevens had been reelected in 1858 after a nearly six-year hiatus. Stevens saw the Civil War as an opportunity to end slavery once and for all, and as ...
On May 8, 1866, Thaddeus Stevens delivered this speech introducing the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives. The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House, Stevens was a lawyer, politician, and staunch abolitionist. As a politician in Pennsylvania, he supported free public education and suffrage for African Americans.
