THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT.; Circular of Instructions to the Military Commanders. Attorney-General Stanbery's Opinion Accepted as Authority. Share full article. June 23, 1867. Credit ...

In 1867, Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, requiring new state governments to be set up based on universal suffrage in states that were part of the Confederate States of America during the ...

The President and the Reconstruction Act. Share full article. July 24, 1867. ... See the article in its original context from July 24, 1867, Page 1 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

On March 2, 1867, Congress abolished the governments of the Confederate states and forced them to create new constitutions and to ratify the 14th Amendment. That act remade America.

An 1867 illustration from "Harper's Weekly" depicts Black men exercising their right to vote, which the 15th Amendment would enshrine after its ratification in 1870.

But getting to the Reconstruction Act of 1867 was a long, painful slog. Just look at this cartoon by the renowned illustrator Thomas Nast from September 1866. The artist came to the United States ...

Just as critically, the mundane mechanics of government embedded in the Third Military Reconstruction Act helped produce an extraordinary constitutional revolution in the 14th and then the 15th ...

To understand the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which divided the South into five military districts, an understanding of the preceding two years is needed, said Mark Bradley, a historian ...

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

In the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Congress split the former Confederacy into five military districts and required the former states to ratify the 14th Amendment and adopt new state constitutions ...