JOHNSON &
RECONSTRUCTION
- Clashed with
Congress
- Readmitted states
after they ratified the
13th Amendment
- Pardoned former
Confederate officers,
allowing them to get
land back
- Radical Republicans
disagreed with the
President
LOUISIANA GOV’T POSTWAR
- Many former
Confederates elected
to the legislature
- Republican party
gained strength
(made up of free
people of color,
former slaves, and
northerners)
- Governor Wells, a
unionist, was elected
in 1865
** 13th Amendment: got rid
of slavery
- Was impeached by
the House of
Representatives and
** 14th Amendment: made
was within 1 vote in
former slaves U.S. Citizens
the Senate from being
removed
** 15th Amendment: gave
black males the right to
vote
FREEDMEN
- Wants: families to not
be separated,
education for
children, no
whipping, to not
have to work on a
plantation they were
a slave at
- Moved to towns
which caused conflict
- Black Code: written
because movement of
former slaves
frightened the whites
- the code restricted
the actions,
movement, and
conduct of the
freedmen
- also controlled the
work force
- Freedmen had to sign
contracts for working
FREEDMENS BUREAU &
RIGHTS
- Bureau: established
by the Federal Gov’t
- Purpose… to provide
food, clothing, and
basic medical care
- Established schools
- Freedmen gained
rights when the 14th
Amendment was
passed