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Digital History>Timelines>Timeline Topics
| Timeline for Reconstruction |
| 1867 |
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Over a presidential veto, Congress adopts the First Reconstruction Act, which divides the South into five military districts, temporarily imposes martial law, and calls for state conventions to draft new constitutions which had to incorporate black voting rights and disqualification from officeholding for former Confederate leaders. (Digital History ID 608)
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