Military rule's impact in South

• Happened in 1867 - Act said : apart from Tenesse, no Southern state had a legal government. The South could not send representatives to Congress unless Congress agreed. Ex-Confederate states should be govern by military commander. In order to return to the Union, Southern states had to draw up new constitutions that allows black males to vote, ratify 14th Amendment , and disqualify Confederate office holders from political participation.
• Act gave federal government tools to impose Congressional Reconstruction in the South where it aroused great white hostility. President Johnson thought it gave the Southern black population too much power and feared it would 'Africanise' South. Act did not create any federal agencies to protect black rights, give economic aid to the freed slaves or disenfranchise Southern whites.