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Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
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The Presidential opposition and Southern States resistance to the Fourteenth Amendment and to Reconstruction so outraged the Congress that in March 1867 it passed a Reconstruction Act that imposed its desired version on the South by means of a diktat. Therefore all former Confederate States but one (Tennessee had been readmitted in 1866 to the Union), were grouped into five military districts, each ruled by a military governor in order to push forward the Reconstruction program according to the Congress wishes and check the progress done.
reconstruction
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.
Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which divided the South into military districts and required each state to write a new constitution granting suffrage to all male citizens, regardless of race. Southern states had to ratify the 14th Amendment to be readmitted to the Union. Congress also established the Freedmen's Bureau to help enforce these new laws.
In 1865, the US Civil War was still going on. Also, Reconstruction followed the war and it took some Southern states time to reunite with the US. Thus the US Congress did not have all the states represented.
President Andrew Johnson plan of reconstruction was based upon a desire to punish the southern states for causing so much bloodshed and suffering during the war The radical Republicans who had the majority in the Congress.
Congress passed a series of Reconstruction Acts in 1867, which divided the South into military districts and enforced new state constitutions guaranteeing voting rights for African Americans. Congress also established the Freedmen's Bureau to protect the rights of newly freed slaves and oversee the transition to freedom. Additionally, Congress required southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment to be readmitted to the Union.
Lincoln's reconstruction plan called for rejoining of the North and the South as one nation. The southern states would get a representative in Congress when 1/10 of the voters pledged to obey the Federal Laws and take an oath of loyalty to the US.