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These laws were made to help control the freed African Americans.
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This law gave the federal branch of the government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African American's rights.
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The First Reconstruction Act divided 10 of the former Confederate states into five military districts which each would be governed by an army general until new state governments were made.
The Second Reconstruction Act empowered the army to register voters in each district and to help organize state constitutional conventions. -
It made sure citizenship couldn't later be taken away by passing another law.
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It made sure that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
