Final answer:
The First Reconstruction Act passed in 1867 divided the South into military districts.
Step-by-step explanation:
The subject of this question is History and it is at a High School level
The statement in the question is referring to the First Reconstruction Act passed in 1867, which divided the South into military districts. So, the correct answer is True.On March 2, 1867, Congress approved the first Reconstruction Act. It divided the South into five military districts, each one headed by a Union general. Each state was required to draft a new state constitution at a convention open to African American and white delegates alike (except high-ranking ex-Confederate officials). African American and white men alike would get to vote on it. The states would also have to approve the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a measure ensuring citizenship and equal rights for African Americans (see Chapter 9). Then they could be readmitted to the Union. (Tennessee was exempt from this entire process, as it had been readmitted in 1866 after approving the Fourteenth Amendment.)
The terms angered many Southern whites. Congress was forcing them to scrap their old governments, give African American men the vote, and allow ex-slaves to hold state office even though some ex-Confederates could not. The act also raised numerous questions for those Southerners, as noted in The Civil War and Reconstruction. "Of itself the reconstruction act accomplished nothing except to create puzzlement, confusion, and resentment in the South." It did not explain how the constitutional conventions would be run, or which ex-Confederates would be barred from the process, or whether they could get a pardon to hold office.