Under the First Reconstruction Act of March, 1867, the former states of the Confederacy (excluding Tennessee) were
A) allowed to elect members to the Senate, but not to the House.
B) required to confiscate large plantations in the former Confederacy and divide the land among the former slaves.
C) readmitted to the Union after each ratified the Thirteenth Amendment.
D) divided into five military districts.

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The First Reconstruction Act of March 1867 divided the former Confederate states (excluding Tennessee, which had already been readmitted to the Union) into five military districts as part of the Reconstruction process to rebuild and govern the South, ensure the rights of newly freed slaves, and enforce the terms of Reconstruction.

Under the First Reconstruction Act of March, 1867, the Former