RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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He allowed many high-ranking Confederates to vote without swearing allegiance to the United States.
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He supported a Reconstruction plan similar to President Lincoln’s plan.
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He fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
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He vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson vetoed the legislation. The Radicals mustered enough votes in Congress to pass legislation over his veto–the first time that Congress had overridden a President on an important bill. They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established Negroes as American citizens and forbade discrimination against them.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the end, Johnson refused to sign the bill because he believed Congress had no right to guarantee citizenship within the states or to enforce legislation on the individual states.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most importantly, Johnson’s strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for blacks is principally responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem in the South and perhaps in America as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -Congress overrode Johnson’s veto on April 9, 1866, and elements of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 eventually became the template for the Fourteenth Amendment.