Question

Explain why the Military Reconstruction Act was considered to be so radical, using

at least one specific example as support.

Answer 1

Answer: The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 split the states of the former Confederacy into five military districts and specified how new governments—based on manhood suffrage without regard to race—were to be constituted. Thus began Radical Reconstruction, which lasted until the demise of the last Republican-led Southern governments in 1877.

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