jan 20, 1867 - Reconstruction Act
Description:
Passed by the newly-elected RepublicanCongress, it divided the South into five military districts, disenfranchised former confederates, and required that Southern states both
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and write state constitutions guaranteeing freedmen the franchise before gaining readmission to the Union
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Date:
jan 20, 1867
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~ 159 years ago