Why did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

The Civil Rights Act was passed on April 9, 1866 by a Republican dominated Congress. This piece of legislation was passed over President Johnson's veto, in an effort to push back against discrimination of African Americans.

Explanation:

answer; people where able to travel across the u.s.a faster than any other mode of transportation,travel time was about a week,from coast to coast

your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together