Finally the war is over, the year is April 14^th 1865, and the reconstruction is “bring the south back into the Union. Abraham Lincoln was a president as get killed of John Willie. Then the vice president Andrew Johnson becomes to the new president.
Andrew makes up the 13^th amendment to end the slavery. President Johnsons plan for the reconstruction of the south was he wanted the forgiving plan, like the same as Lincoln. He even wanted that the states could rejoin Union when they write a new constitution and repeal secession. The Congress establishes the Freedmen’s Bureau, they agency to help African Americans to move from slavery to a save freedom, they provided food and medical care to the black and the poor whites, and the congress even organized specific schools for the blacks. South passes the Black Codes, the Freedmen could now own property and get married BUT a big thing, and they couldn’t vote, serve on juries or bear guns. The radical Republicans wanted the Military rule of south until the southern states had constitutional convention, adopted the 14^th amendment as were the equal rights or allowed freedmen the suffrage. The Army returns to the south and they registered southerners to vote. The carpetbaggers’ was northerners who went to south to try to start new businesses, the southerners who had opposed secession and they wanted south punished.
1868 -1876 was the Blacks elected to the Congress from the South. Year 1869 was the 15^th amendment here and that stood for the right to vote for ALL, without womens BUT as Mr. Schneider always says, if he would have the rights to decide, everyone would have the rights to vote, for a long time ago.The end of reconstruction was when the southern withes took the right to vote away from the blacks. It was a new tax, called Poll Tax so you have to pay for a vote, and the Freedmen’s was poor so they couldn’t buy it because it was to expensive. You even had to go through a literary test, but to go through that you need to read and write, but the Freedmen’s was still poor so they couldn’t get that kind of education as they needed.Even a new law came up, Jim Crow Law that means a segregation of races, the white forbid the black from sharing faculties with them.