There is much to say about the positive affects the Reconstruction brought to both the North and South. In May 1865, Johnson announced his own Reconstruction plan. It offered pardons to all Southern whites except the main Confederate leaders and wealthy Confederate supports. If you think about it, this plan is like a "pay-back" to the white Southerners who had money and help the confederate. Since the North won, they are going to get their "pay-back" by having this plan. Early in 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which guaranteed various legal rights to former slaves. Also in June 1866, Congress proposed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave citizenship to blacks. The Amendment also guaranteed that all federal and state laws would apply equally to blacks and whites. Election boards in each state would register as voters all

When Johnson announced his Reconstruction plan in May of 1865, He pointed out that the main purpose of his plan was to "pay-back" the Confederates, but his plan did not offer blacks a role in the process of

adult black males and all qualified adult white males.

Reconstruction. Under Johnson's plan, he passed a series of laws called black codes. One of the codes forced blacks to sign labor contracts requiring them to work at a job for a full year, and if they didn't work they had to be put in jail and their children hired out. It also permitted the employer to whip the black workers. Former slaves also suffered attacks from whites. In 1865 and 1866, whites murdered about 5,000 Southern blacks. In December 1865, a secret white organization called the Ku Klux Klan was founded in Tennessee. The group beat up and murdered blacks and white sympathizers to keep them from exercising their rights.

When Congress proposed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave citizenship to blacks, Johnson urged the states to reject the amendment, and all the former Confederate states expect Tennessee did so. The Reconstruction Acts were mentioned to Congress and once again Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Acts, but the Republican-controlled Congress easily repassed them over his vetoes. The Reconstru

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