13h 22min, mar 2, 1867 y - Military Reconstruction Act
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Passed by the newly elected Republican Congress, 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.Added to timeline:
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13h 22min, mar 2, 1867 y
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