The EOTO team did the Reconstruction era which each member did a different topic to do research on and explain it to the class. I found it interesting that the black codes were a way to limit African Americans to do things they were allowed to do since they are free. Though some of them were able to find loopholes which gave them a chance to vote, unlike others who couldn’t do it.
It said that the 13th amendment didn’t really apply to the states in the south which is where the slaves were. It still held them back from being able to move forward in the Union at the time. President Johnson was really holding them by vetoing certain bills that were supposed to help African Americans after the end of the Civil War. Though Congress still let those bills become laws even Johnson vetoed which showed that Johnson wasn’t huge of ending slavery nor letting free black people have rights.
This was going to take some time to get it on track for America to understand African Americans are now equals like them. The Ten Percent Plan helped out balancing the rights of the freed people who were from slavery at the time. Congress wanted to get the order for the Union when some of the southern states were rejoining the union at the time. I believe that African Americans should be treated right no matter what the situation is and not deny their rights at all.
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