The Southern states were passing many laws that restricted blacks. These laws were known as the Black Codes. In Mississippi the codes restricted interracial marriages( Death as punishment). The codes restricted the areas in where blacks could live( black people could not rent or own land if it was outside an incorporated town). The codes were used to undermine the federal government giving forty acres to former slaves. There were large plantations that were abandoned. The behavior of the Southern states angered the Congress. Thaddeus Stevens and Congressman Charles Sumner directed the fight and passed an act to form the Freedmen's bureau.
Freedmen's Bureau's purpose was to give training and education to Black's for their transformation from slavery to freedom. President Andrew Johnson was against the legislation of blacks( only several bills passed). Aggressive law in force in the Southern states, the Congress could do anything. States that are rebellious could not vote before congress. There was a lot of votes to override President Andrew Johnson's vetoes. The year after the civil war, Congress passed the civil rights act of 1866.
By the late 1865, when the 13th amendment officially outlawed the institution of slavery, the question of freed blacks' status in the postwar South was still very much unsolved ( History.com/blackcodes) The black codes were restricted laws that didn't allow them to do what they wanted. Northern outrage over the black codes helped undermine support for the Johnson's policies, and by the late 1866 control over the reconstruction had shifted to the more radical wing of the Republican Party in Congress. (history.com/blackcodes). Slaves fought to keep their independence. In Mississippi and South Carolina were the first to enact the black codes in the late 1865. Mississippi's laws restricted Written evidence of employment every January, In South Carolina that law requires slaves that could not hold a job unless it was a former servant (unless paid a tax of $10 to $100).(History.com/blackcodes) Southern states enacted their own black codes in 1865 and 1866. The codes were their to limit the activities of African Americans, and the labor they could do. Freed blacks could own property right to buy,marry, testify in court, make contracts. States limited the type of property blacks' to arrest. The North argued, saying that the codes violated the meaning of free. In 1867-1877 blacks won the election to the Southern state government and the U.S. Congress. (History.com/blackcodes) After 1877, the reconstruction closed, and blacks still didn't have a change in social statuses, and had very little improvement in the economic way.
Freedmen's Bureau's purpose was to give training and education to Black's for their transformation from slavery to freedom. President Andrew Johnson was against the legislation of blacks( only several bills passed). Aggressive law in force in the Southern states, the Congress could do anything. States that are rebellious could not vote before congress. There was a lot of votes to override President Andrew Johnson's vetoes. The year after the civil war, Congress passed the civil rights act of 1866.
By the late 1865, when the 13th amendment officially outlawed the institution of slavery, the question of freed blacks' status in the postwar South was still very much unsolved ( History.com/blackcodes) The black codes were restricted laws that didn't allow them to do what they wanted. Northern outrage over the black codes helped undermine support for the Johnson's policies, and by the late 1866 control over the reconstruction had shifted to the more radical wing of the Republican Party in Congress. (history.com/blackcodes). Slaves fought to keep their independence. In Mississippi and South Carolina were the first to enact the black codes in the late 1865. Mississippi's laws restricted Written evidence of employment every January, In South Carolina that law requires slaves that could not hold a job unless it was a former servant (unless paid a tax of $10 to $100).(History.com/blackcodes) Southern states enacted their own black codes in 1865 and 1866. The codes were their to limit the activities of African Americans, and the labor they could do. Freed blacks could own property right to buy,marry, testify in court, make contracts. States limited the type of property blacks' to arrest. The North argued, saying that the codes violated the meaning of free. In 1867-1877 blacks won the election to the Southern state government and the U.S. Congress. (History.com/blackcodes) After 1877, the reconstruction closed, and blacks still didn't have a change in social statuses, and had very little improvement in the economic way.