Module 3 Brainstorming
2 great topics I will be looking into for US History 1865 is the post slavery in the south reflecting on the victory of the Civil War giving more than 4 million enslaved people there freedom. Which was caused by the 13 amendment being passed in 1864 by the US senate and signed by Lincoln.
Reconstruction (1865-1877) came about after the Civil War, the goal was to better Southern states under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed “Black Codes'' to control the behavior of former enslaved people. During Radical Reconstruction, African Americans gained a voice in government for the first time in history, winning election to the southern states. Many hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan started to terrorize and do everything in their power to control African American people through fear.
The second topic I will be discussing is Andrew Johnson ,17th President of the US, taking over after the assassination of Lincoln and trying to restore the South and give former slaves land. Andrew Johnson was one president who had it bad joining the White House. Many people who were against him such as Radical Republicans in Congress. After Lincoln’s death, President Johnson reconstructed the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865.
By the time Congress met in December 1865, most southern states were reconstructed, slavery was being abolished, but “black codes” to regulate the freedmen were beginning to appear.
The Radicals’ wanted to hurry and change the plans of President Johnson. Radicals gathered enough votes in Congress to pass legislation over his veto–the first time that Congress had overridden a President on an important bill. Causing President Johnson to be kicked out of office and forcing a new president to be in control.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-johnson/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
Hey Treasure! I'm glad that you included the information in about Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln. I think that post reconstruction it was important for African Americans to finally have a voice and a say so in politics and government simply because they were also affected by the laws that were being put in place. I find it sad that although slavery was abolished "black codes" were put into place to still restrict African Americans from doing certain things.
ReplyDeleteHello Treasure! I appreciate how your post is talking about things that happened in 1865 and 1866 but also can be said for today. I really enjoyed what you wrote on Andrew Johnson and how he was trying to further the work that Abraham Lincoln had started but was stopped by radicals. Great Job.
ReplyDeleteHi Treasure ! I love the convos around this era. I’m still debating did Lincoln actually free the slaves cause he wanted to or did he free them to hold the country together. Andrew Johnson did step up and reconstruction certain states.
ReplyDeleteThere were hate groups, knowing that other races would uprise and make it hard for just only ones races voice to be heard.
Good evening ! I fully respect both Andrew and Abraham... but I feel as if their only option was to free the slaves, only to help the world go-round. This kind of showed African Americans that whites where on the same path and we were trying to be United as one. It all just looks good!
ReplyDeleteTreasure! I enjoyed reading your blog post, and learned a lot from the events that took place after the Civil War. In your writing you talked about how African Americans gained a voice in the government, and I thought it was interesting how that illustrated what currently is going on in society today. If Black Americans in this day and age didn’t use their right and their voice to vote, America would still be on a repeated cycle of racial hate and discrimination. Reading your post, infiltrated the fact that Black Americans like ourselves have a significant impact in society, and how our voices reflect the entire world.
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