RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Congress overturned Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction. They:
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rebuilt the southern infrastructure
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allowed the southern elite to hold positions in the federal goverment
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let the southern states create their own goverments
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abolished southern state governmentsand set up 5 military districts & sent troops to keep martial law
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction, all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and distributed to the formerly enslaved people by the army or the Freedmen’s Bureau (established by Congress in 1865) reverted to its prewar owners.
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