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Johnson didn’t interfere with the south ND they continued their plantations, with the plantation owners running the south, in essence becoming exactly what they were before the war. It was like it had never happened. When Reconstruction was finished neither the North, South, or Freedmen won the entire peace, but the South won the biggest piece Of what they wanted because they got slavery (just without the name), they got an easy pass back into the Union, and things reverted pretty much back to the way they had been before the war.
Though slavery was abolished with the passing of the 13th amendment it still existed in the south in the forms of the Black Codes and the UK Klux Klan. The 13th amendment was passed by congress, it stated that in the US there would be no slavery. The south didn’t like that, their whole social and economical structure was based on a very firm foundation of slavery. The UK Klux Klan (or ASK) was started as a society where plantation owners could go and complain about the loss of their slaves, the crushing defeat they had suffered, and how horrible the North was in general.
The ASK then evolved into one of the first terrorist organizations in the US. They would dress up in white sheets and Diana, beat, lynch, whip, and try to get rid off the African-American race in the south. The Black Codes themselves were laws that got passed in most states in the south which prohibited blacks from renting land/houses, being employed by anyone other than a white plantation owner, and punished them severely when they broke the codes. To help try and keep the African- Americans as slaves President Johnson began to pardon left and right.
When Johnson let the South back into the Union he helped to make all the people who had died for the right to equality for all worthless. President Johnson was from the south originally. He had been a poor white living in Kentucky, and so had learned to hate the rich, white Plantation owners. But he always felt above the slaves which later influenced his decision to let the very people he had grown up hating back in to the union. When congress passed the 1 13th Amendment banning slavery many of the people in the south feared what would happen to them.
Johnson, who related to the poor white folk, knew that they needed someone who they could say “at least I’m better than you” about. The only way he saw to do that was by letting the South eave their lands and rights back so that they could do something about their former slaves. So the pardons started rolling out of the Round Office like a printing press. The Radical Republicans weren’t happy about it but at that point they couldn’t stop him. The south began to return to the way it was.
After Reconstruction the south reverted back to the way it was with slavery, plantations, and the North still in the north. The new form of slavery still looked much like the old; it just had a different name. The south said that they were doing it for the betterment of all, but they just wanted things the ay they had been. Now, though, they had to deal with the 13th, 14th, and 1 5th amendments which said that Slavery was banned in the United States (they gave it a different name), all people born or had lived in the US more than 7 years were citizens (that meant the slaves! , and that all male citizens had the right to vote. That was the biggie, that African-Americans were equals and allowed to have a say in what was going on! But the south couldn’t change that. They were still almost entirely agricultural, with plantations spreading as far as the eye could see. Johnson saw nothing wrong with that, r he didn’t Want to, so he let it go. He didn’t put the army down there or anything, he just let everything go back to normal.