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The Union army was stationed in the five Southern districts to ensure that they honored the requirements of Reconstruction. These requirements included ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment and giving voting rights without racial restrictions.
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BeauTo impose to the former Confederate States (with exception of Tennessee, which had already been readmitted to the Union in 1866) the Congress' Reconstruction Plan by diktat. These States were grouped into five military districts ruled by a military governor with following purposes:
once Law and Order had been established, the states were to organise conventions to amend their constitutions making them conform to the Constitution of the United States , included the Fourteenth Amendment.
After completation of these steps the conforming states could be readmitted to the Union and to be represented in the Federal Congress.
The measure was necessary because the aforesaid states insisted to persist with their provisional governments, which were actually continuations of the Confederate regimes.
The decision to use Federal forces came as the culmination of two existential crises to the American Republic. The first was maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and primacy of federal governance. The second was preserving the territorial, political and economic integrity of the Republic against a devastating and catastrophic partition. The issue of slavery indeed existed, but they were secondary to the economic and political questions that drove the initial acts of war.
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What ended Reconstruction in the South and what effect did that have on southern blacks?
When federal troops left in 1877
When did radical congressional reconstruction of the south end?
1877When the last federal troops were removed from the south.
What event signaled the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
The Compromise of 1877 was the event that ended Reconstruction. The compromise did more than just end Reconstruction, it also settled the 1876 Presidential election dispute and removed federal troops from the South.
What did the federal troops do?
federal troops were union soilders
What was time frame for the Reconstruction Period?
Reconstruction began in 1865 with the ratification of the thirteenth Amendment. In 1867, all of the Reconstruction acts passed even with Johnson's veto. In 1877, the last federal troops leave the South and Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president.
