Once the Civil War had bygone in the United States the country was left with various challenges to overcome, starting from before the war and continuing afterwards. The end of the Civil War was followed by the era of Reconstruction. The United States was forced to tackle challenges brought upon by the end of the Civil War. Throughout the 1800s attempts of rebuildment by Northern political leaders were carried out through creations of plans for governance of the South. Reconstruction was difficult to accomplish due to key challenges; How to bring the South back into the Union and achieve reunification and reconciliation. How to rebuild the South after its destruction during the war. How to integrate and protect newly emancipated black freedmen
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Congress broke away from the president and began to take over Reconstruction. It prevents Southern Congressional delegates from coming back, overrides Johnson’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau, passing it in February 1866, passed the Civil Rights Bill in 1866, despite Johnson’s veto once again, giving citizenship to African Americans who sought to get rid of the Black Codes. The priority of Congress now being the prevention of southern states overturning laws passed during Reconstruction, such as the Civil Rights Bill. This lead to the 14th Amendment being created which declared all persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S., including African Americans, states were obligated to protect rights and provide equal protection of the law and due process, prevented former Confederate political officials from holding office, and Southern states would be punished for denying the right to vote to its black citizens. Under Congress there was Disenfranchisement of former Confederates and it ruled the Lincoln and Johnson 10% invalid, to be readmitted it was required to have new state constitutions including black suffrage, the 15th Amendment, and the ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments. Additionally the Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into 5 military districts that were controlled by Union generals. It was military occupation of the South to ensure that reconstruction is being followed. This was an important phase of Reconstruction Because federal power had been brought into the south to bring social and economic change. Under congressional or radical reconstruction causes the south to experience a social and political revolution-now that African American men are voting, and groups of black senators and congressmen were taking power in the south. The 15th Amendment and the Congressional Reconstruction resulted in the
Congress broke away from the president and began to take over Reconstruction. It prevents Southern Congressional delegates from coming back, overrides Johnson’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau, passing it in February 1866, passed the Civil Rights Bill in 1866, despite Johnson’s veto once again, giving citizenship to African Americans who sought to get rid of the Black Codes. The priority of Congress now being the prevention of southern states overturning laws passed during Reconstruction, such as the Civil Rights Bill. This lead to the 14th Amendment being created which declared all persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S., including African Americans, states were obligated to protect rights and provide equal protection of the law and due process, prevented former Confederate political officials from holding office, and Southern states would be punished for denying the right to vote to its black citizens. Under Congress there was Disenfranchisement of former Confederates and it ruled the Lincoln and Johnson 10% invalid, to be readmitted it was required to have new state constitutions including black suffrage, the 15th Amendment, and the ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments. Additionally the Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into 5 military districts that were controlled by Union generals. It was military occupation of the South to ensure that reconstruction is being followed. This was an important phase of Reconstruction Because federal power had been brought into the south to bring social and economic change. Under congressional or radical reconstruction causes the south to experience a social and political revolution-now that African American men are voting, and groups of black senators and congressmen were taking power in the south. The 15th Amendment and the Congressional Reconstruction resulted in the