An act vetoed by Johnson that did not recognize state governments formed under the Lincoln & Johnson plans—except for that of Tennessee, which had ratified the 14th Amendment & had been readmitted to the Union. The act divided the other 10 former Confederate states into 5 military districts each headed by a Union general. Voters in the districts would elect delegates to conventions in which new state constitutions would be drafted. For a state to reenter the Union, its constitution had to ensure African American men the vote, AND the state had to ratify the 14th Amendment

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