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Military Reconstruction Acts
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Military_Reconstruction_Acts
GPTKB entity
Statements (30)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:United_States_federal_law
gptkbp:appliesTo
gptkb:Alabama
gptkb:Arkansas
gptkb:Florida
gptkb:Georgia
gptkb:Louisiana
gptkb:Mississippi
gptkb:North_Carolina
gptkb:South_Carolina
gptkb:Texas
gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:dateEnacted
1867
gptkbp:dividedInto
former Confederate states into five military districts
gptkbp:enactedBy
gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:excludes
gptkb:Tennessee
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Military Reconstruction Acts
gptkbp:militaryDistrictsCommandedBy
Union generals
gptkbp:purpose
Reconstruction of the South after the American Civil War
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkb:Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:requires
Southern states to draft new constitutions
ratification of the 14th Amendment
guarantee of African American male suffrage
gptkbp:significance
Expanded federal authority in the South
Laid groundwork for civil rights legislation
gptkbp:vetoedBy
gptkb:Andrew_Johnson
gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Reconstruction_Acts_of_1867
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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