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// Reconstruction Act of 1867 //

The first two Reconstruction Acts were followed by a series of supplementary acts that stated the military commanders to register the voters and watch the elections. because of this all of the states had returned to the Union by 1870. The military voters wanted to select people who not loyal to the confederate so that all the Union groups can come together and control all the military districts. The Union military wanted to become powerful. They wanted to be dominant over the Conferate army.

Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act on 2nd March, 1867. The South was now divided into five military districts, each under a major general. New elections were to be held in each state with freed male slaves being allowed to vote. Blacks were allowed to vote because of the 15 Ammendment. This allowed African Americans to have alittle freedom in the south. The still sometimes were treated like slave.

It was clear that Southern states would prefer military rule to civil government based on universal male suffrage. Congress then passed a supplementary Reconstruction Act on March 23 which authorized the military commanders to watch elections and provide the machinery for constituting new governments. The military had a task to watch the votes to make sure it went by smooth.

Alaska was puchased by the U.S for Russia in 1867. Which is a fact i wanted to add. Ive learned that all the wars between the Confederate and the union and the conflicts with the slaves all led to the Reconstruction act of 1867. The Resurection Act of 1867 does continue trends that we've seen in History, because the Reconstruction Act allows the military to inforce their believes and make sure the south listened and did not take over the goverment. The south did not want to follow the laws of the goverment.This event matters todya because we used the same stradegies today to inforce laws.

After the North defeated the South in the Civil War, politicians faced the task of putting the divided country back together. There was great debate about how severely the former Confederate states should be punished for leaving the Union. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote. These were only the first steps, however, toward reconstructing the fragmented nation.