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Reconstruction Era | The Radical Revolution | 2
American History Tellers
The House Reconstruction Bill and the Right to Vote
Senator Charles Sumner was convinced that the south could only be reconstructed if black men were given the vote. He took his argument to the senate floor declaring that if the senate did not settle the question of black suffrage every state and village between here and the Rio Grande would be agitated by it. One radical senator declared this is the greatest vote that has ever been taken on this continent. On march 2nd 1867 both houses of congress passed the first of four reconstruction acts over johnson's veto in the bill's final form Congress divided the south into five military districts putting the army in charge of enforcing the law. Soon 20,000 troops would be deployed across the region It was their job to
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