USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 split the states of the former Confederacy into five military districts and specified how new governments-based on manhood suffrage without regard to race-were to be constituted.

Detailed explanation-2: -Radical Reconstruction The following March, again over Johnson’s veto, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which temporarily divided the South into five military districts and outlined how governments based on universal (male) suffrage were to be organized.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Radicals felt strongly that the Confederates needed to be punished for their pro-slavery views and should only be readmitted to the Union after they had abolished slavery among other conditions. They believed that government intervention in states was necessary to ensure abolition and civil rights for Blacks.