Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was created on March 2, 1867 and divided almost the whole South (except Tennessee) into five distinct military outposts in which the army commander's authority was law. President Johnson continued to prove difficult in his fight to segregate free blacks, and was later impeached sometime in February of the year 1868. The Reconstruction Act also permitted six southern states to readmit; Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. The Reconstruction Act required the readmitted states to ratify their Fourteenth Amendment.