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The Southern resistance to Reconstruction and President Johnson's efforts to further that resistance. Presidential attitude made Congress so outraged, that in march 1867 it passed a Reconstruction Act made out to impose its wanted pattern of a postwar settlement upon the South by diktat. Ten former Confederate States were therefore assembled into five military districts, each of them under the rule of a military governor provided with massive powers, in order to assure Law and Order.

The State were then to organise conventions to amend their state Constitutions in accordance with the Constitution of the US, also providing the Fourteenth Amendment was to be included in the same.

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Place the military rule in south until all states formed new government that ratified the 14thsouth amendment

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