Why did general nathaniel banks issue stringent regulations for plantations in louisiana?

Nathaniel Banks' stringent regulations for plantations in Louisiana were designed to put freed people back to work quickly. The Union general created the Banks plan which required blacks to sign year long contracts to work for their former plantations for $3 a month or 5% of the proceeds of the crop. The plantation owners also provided food and shelter.

The case was a u.s. supreme court decision that defined the scope of the u.s. congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of american state legislatures. the dispute in mcculloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of maryland imposed on it.