Reconstruction Acts of 1867-1868

Acts, Bills, and Laws, Post-Civil War

Nearly two years following the end of the Civil War, Congress finally forged a complete plan for reconstruction. Three measures were passed in 1867 as well as additional legislation the following year. The measures' main points included:

Creation of five military districts in the seceded states (not including Tennessee, which had ratified the 14th Amendment and was readmitted to the Union)
Each district was to be headed by a military official empowered to appoint and remove state officials
Voters were to be registered; all freedmen were to be included as well as those white men who took an extended loyalty oath
State constitutional conventions, comprising elected delegates, were to draft new governing documents providing for black male suffrage
States were required to ratify the 14th Amendment prior to readmission.

Johnson’s vetoes of these measures were overridden by Congress, repeating a familiar pattern.

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THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS: 1867 - Texas State Library
... That it is hereby declared to have been the true intent and meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and of ...
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Fourth Reconstruction Act March 11, 1868
Be it enacted . . ., That hereafter any election authorized by the act [of March 23, I867] . . ., shall be decided by a majority of the votes actually cast; and at the election in which the question of the adoption or rejection of any ...
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From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Andrew Johnson, Veto fo the first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
The bill also denies the legality of the governments of ten of the States which participated in the ratification of the amendment to the Federal Constitution abolishing slavery forever within the jurisdiction of the United States and practically ...
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Reconstruction Acts of 1867-1868

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