Volume 12 , Issue 15

Reconstruction Act (1867)

It was after the Civil War that the United States Congress passed four statures known as Reconstruction Acts: March 2, 1867 (39 Cong. Ch. 153; 14 Stat. 428), March 23, 1867 (40 Cong. Ch. 6; 15 Stat. 2), July 19, 1867 (40 Cong. Ch. 30; 15 Stat. 14), March 11, 1868 (ch. 25, 15 Stat. 41).

The Acts' main points included:
* Creation of five military districts in the seceded states not including Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was readmitted to the Union

* Requiring congressional approval for new state constitutions (which were required for Confederate states to rejoin the Union)

* Confederate states give voting rights to all men.

* All former Confederate states must ratify the 14th Amendment.

President Andrew Johnson veto of these measures were overridden by Congress.
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