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What did the Reconstruction Act of March 1867 do to the southern states?
AIt divided them into five military districts
BIt restored their elected governments at once
CIt returned their confiscated land to owners
DIt barred them from the federal courts
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. It divided them into five military districts
1. All the southern legislatures except Tennessee had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
2. Congress answered in the Reconstruction Act of March 1867.
3. It ignored the governments already set up there and divided the south into five districts.
4. Those districts were placed under military rule.
5. A state could escape that rule by setting up a civil government, swearing allegiance, ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment and adopting black suffrage.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE WAR’S AFTERMATH_
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