He started with some form of amnesty to Southerners but Congress did not agree with his further actions of “Johnson governments” and his attempt for restoration ended there. Meanwhile, the South grew angry over the North’s reluctance to abolish slavery and their refusal to grant suffrage to any blacks. Meanwhile, black codes controlled the South. Black codes allowed local officials to imprison unemployed blacks, fine them for vagrancy, and hire them out to to private employers to satisfy the fines. (Brinkley, 376) That’s when the congressional plan came into play and reacted by expanding the Freedmen’s Bureau to nullify the forced agreements of the black codes. Shortly after, Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act, declaring blacks as citizens of the United States which was shortly after incorporated into the Constitution as the fourteenth amendment. The fifteenth amendment was ratified soon after, granting suffrage to any citizen, disregarding any account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (Brinkley,
He started with some form of amnesty to Southerners but Congress did not agree with his further actions of “Johnson governments” and his attempt for restoration ended there. Meanwhile, the South grew angry over the North’s reluctance to abolish slavery and their refusal to grant suffrage to any blacks. Meanwhile, black codes controlled the South. Black codes allowed local officials to imprison unemployed blacks, fine them for vagrancy, and hire them out to to private employers to satisfy the fines. (Brinkley, 376) That’s when the congressional plan came into play and reacted by expanding the Freedmen’s Bureau to nullify the forced agreements of the black codes. Shortly after, Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act, declaring blacks as citizens of the United States which was shortly after incorporated into the Constitution as the fourteenth amendment. The fifteenth amendment was ratified soon after, granting suffrage to any citizen, disregarding any account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (Brinkley,