Southern resistance to Reconstruction and presidential opposition against the Fourteenth Amendment so outraged the Congress, that in March 1867 it passed a Reconstruction Act that imposed its desired version of a postwar settlement by diktat.
The former Confederate States, with exception of Tennessee, were grouped int five military districts each one ruled by a military governor with extensive powers
to apply the aforesaid Act.
To support effectively the governors work, the Congress decided to send many military units into the South.
Upon learning of an assault on Charleston, South Carolina by Federal forces in 1863, Southern troops in Wilmington North Carolina were sent to reinforce the city. Then troops from Virginia were sent to Wilmington to replace the troops sent to Charleston.
They sent troops and killed anyone who was terrorizing the new citizens, and they killed their leader, ending the group.
the government sent the troops to keep order their were to much violence in the south against the African Americans so the governmernt sent them down.
Union troops, specifically military officials, were sent to the South during the Civil War to maintain order and enforce Reconstruction laws. These troops sought to uphold the authority of the federal government and facilitate the transition of the Southern states back into the Union.
It sent army troops to help state police stop the violence.
it sent army troops to help state police stop the violence
Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief, sent union troops to the South.
It sent army troops to help state police stop the violence.
The Nullification Crisis occurred in South Carolina. There the state refused to render tariffs to the federal government. President Andrew Jackson sent troops there to settle the matter.
The South found their entire way of life change, including politically, with government loaded with Republicans, freedman, and carpetbaggers. White Southerners would use any means to block blacks and Republicans from further entering politics which included violence. The federal government sent military troops to the major cities in the South in an attempt to stem the violence.
The South found their entire way of life change, including politically, with government loaded with Republicans, freedman, and carpetbaggers. White Southerners would use any means to block blacks and Republicans from further entering politics which included violence. The federal government sent military troops to the major cities in the South in an attempt to stem the violence.
The South found their entire way of life change, including politically, with government loaded with Republicans, freedman, and carpetbaggers. White Southerners would use any means to block blacks and Republicans from further entering politics which included violence. The federal government sent military troops to the major cities in the South in an attempt to stem the violence.