Andrew Johnson
Andre Johnson
congress passed the acts over his veto
the rivial plan proposed by congress to president Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was the Wade-Davis Bill. It was vetoed.
Andrew Johnson vetoed some of the reconstruction acts. He did not veto the 14th Amendment since the president has no part in the process. Amendments are proposed and passed in the Legislature and then sent directly to the states for ratification (or the states can call a constitutional convention). Johnson DID veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which was mostly the same as the 14th Amendment. He objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when 11 out of 36 states were unrepresented in the Congress, and because it discriminated in favor of African-Americans and against whites.
pocket vetoed
He vetoed the Radicals' reconstruction bills.
The Reconstruction Act divided former Confederacy (not including Tennessee) into five military districts. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the act ,though, on march 2 1867.
pocket vetoed
Andrew Johnson
they passed many non-racist laws. Even when the racist president vetoed all the laws, the Congress overruled president's veto. This was how the 14th amendment (blacks become citizens) and the 15th amendment (blacks can vote) were passed.
The 10th president, John Tyler vetoed it