RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They would be divided into military districts headed by Union generals.
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Voters, including African Americans, would elect delegates to draft new constitutions.
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All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.
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They had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted to the Union.
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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: -The whole idea of Reconstruction was to try and take the former slaves and try to make them part of society. Also, Reconstruction was also made as an attempt to try and get racism out of the Confederate ideology. Troops where put in the south to help the process along.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Lincoln Reconstruction Plan. The Initial Congressional Plan. The Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Plan. The Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan.
Detailed explanation-4: -Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).