American Civil Rights - African Americans - Reconstruction - President Johnson's actions + consequences
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- President Johnson's actions in Reconstruction
- His plans/actions
- His primary aim was to amalgamate the North and the South
- Enabled a larger number of Southern rebels to be pardoned than originally planned.
- 13,000 in total
- Appointed advisors who had racist attitudes
- Failed to enforce Southern states to ratify with the 13th Amendment
- Enabled the Black Codes to happen in the South
- Effects his actions had on the South
- Black Codes
- African Americans were banned from competing with White Americans for jobs
- Kept African Americans in poverty
- Law was heavily imposed on African Americans
- Freed slaves who were caught begging would be fined with vagrancy
- Couldn't afford fine? They would be forced to work on a plantation
- Effects his actions had on the North
- Greater division between North and South attitudes - Black codes
- Radical Republicans (e.g. Thaddeus Stevens) pressed for extension of African American civil rights
- United all forms of Republicans against President Johnson
- His plans/actions
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