He promised a full apology to each person in the Confederate States except for high-ranking political and military officers. ... These established military districts in the South and required the Southern states' acceptance of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution to ensure the Freedmen's Bureau. ... The southern states would be ruled by the military until all new laws and provisions set forth below were enforced. ...

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The Scent of War In the mid 1800's war was in the air. It was a smell, a feeling; it was spreading like a disease and everyone was catching it. It drove people to different decisions on the same idea and this led to trouble. Trouble usually means war, and war means political craziness. A...

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• Grade Level: High School