the states
the federal government and limit the power of the southern states. They implemented measures such as the Reconstruction Acts, which allowed military control over the former Confederate states and enforced civil rights for freed slaves. These laws aimed to rebuild and unify the nation after the Civil War and ensure the protection of the newly granted rights to African Americans.
Southern white Republicans 'scalawags'
Because screw you, that's why.
Republicans in congress were outraged. The men who had led the south out of the union were being elected to the house and senate. Also, no southern states allowed African Americans to vote.
o strengthen his southern flank he made marriage arrangements for his daughters with southern dynasties.
Scalawags
o strengthen his southern flank he made marriage arrangements for his daughters with southern dynasties.
by impeaching Johnson
Southern states systematically worked to strengthen laws to separate the races in public spaces and to
Congressional republicans.
by impeaching Johnson
the republicans
Much of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction came from a group of Congressmen from his own party. The group, known as the Radical Republicans, believed that the Civil War had been fought over the moral issue of slavery. The Radicals insisted that the main goal of Reconstruction should be a total restructuring of society to guarantee black people true equality.