it created military rule for the ten unreconstructed southern states and a new loyalty oath that disfranchised (took away the vote) from most white voters.
The reconstruction acts is required by government. This was passed after the American Civil War.
After the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson.
1867
reconstruction acts and 10% plan
The four Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in 1867, were known as the First Reconstruction Act, the Second Reconstruction Act, the Third Reconstruction Act, and the Fourth Reconstruction Act. These acts aimed to establish military governance in the Southern states, ensure the civil rights of freedmen, and set the conditions for re-admittance of the Southern states into the Union. They required states to create new constitutions guaranteeing voting rights to African American men and to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
They added four more Reconstruction Acts
when the south was divided into 5 districts
The Coercive Acts
passage of the Reconstruction acts
congress passed the acts over his veto
Reconstruction Acts