1. Andrew Johnson and Radicals
Chapter 14,
Section 2

2. Andrew Johnson Former Democrat from Tennessee
Made Lincoln’s Vice President to attract Democrat votes
Not trusted by Republicans
Johnson planned to use Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, not Congress

3. Presidential Reconstruction
Johnson tells south
Repudiate (refuse to pay) war debt
Nullify ordinances of secession
Adopt 13th Amendment freeing slaves
SC does not recognize illegality of secession
MS does not ratify 13th Amendment

4. Black Codes Laws to restrict freedom of blacks Vagrancy laws
Could not vote
Could not marry whites
Could not serve on juries
Vagrancy laws
Tried to force blacks to stay on plantations

5. Confederates In Office
Johnson pardoned many Confederate politicians and officers
Many were elected into new southern governments
Vice President of CSA, 6 Confederate Cabinet members, 58 members of Confederate Congress
South got more representatives in Congress because now blacks counted in population

6. Committee of Reconstruction
Congressional Committee to make a plan for Reconstruction
Moderate Republicans joined Radical Republicans to oppose seating Southern congressmen
Southern states were no longer states
President didn’t have authority to determine membership in Congress or readmission of states

7. Freedman’s Bureau Originally made to help freed slaves
with food
Jobs
medical care
built schools
Johnson vetoes bill

8. Civil Rights Bill
Allowed federal government to protect civil rights of all citizens
Johnson vetoes because he thought it violated state’s rights principle
Angered Moderate Republicans
Moderates join with Radicals to pass Freedman’s Bureau and Civil Rights bills over Johnson’s veto

9. Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws

10. Fourteenth Amendment
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,(See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

11. Fourteenth Amendment
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,(See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
States will lose
Representatives
if they don’t let
Blacks vote

12. Fourteenth Amendment Defines citizenship in US
Must allow all adult males to vote
No Confederate war debt could be paid
Pardons of Confederate officials require 2/3 vote of Congress
Tennessee ratifies 14th Amendment all other southern states refuse