RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Reconstruction Act of1867
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Freedmens Bureau
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Election of 1864
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Morrill Act
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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: -Two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis penned the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864, an alternative to Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans. The Wade-Davis Bill called for strict conditions and punishments for the Confederate states prior to their reentry into the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Andrew Johnson and passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867–68, which sent federal troops to the South to oversee the establishment of state governments that were more democratic. Congress also enacted legislation and amended the Constitution to guarantee the civil rights of freedmen and African Americans in general.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is officially the years between 1865 and 1877. The victorious Union, mainly Congress, felt that it was necessary to punish the former Confederacy before those states were allowed to rejoin the nation and have all their rights reinstated.