efforts of reconstruction pt4

gained control of both the House and the Senate, so they could now overpower the president.
In 1867, Congress put into place many Reconstruction Acts which controlled the south more with the military; further to join the Union they also had to give African American men the right to vote and agree to the 14th amendment.
The Reconstruction governments began to pour money into rebuilding the south by establishing public schools, hospitals, prisons, and orphanages, as well as building railroads, bridges, an