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Because the Reconstruction plan he afforded to Southerners while Congress was adjourned was too generous by the Northern Republican's Standards. The Southerners had their property and citizen's right restored without having to make any concessions with regards to African-American's civil rights. The Southern states enacted Black Codes (special provisions to state law that only applied to African Americans). Blacks were not allowed to vote. Also, all their former Confederate enemies in Congress were re-elected into power.
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Johnson granted pardon's to people who took an oath of loyalty, No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000. Not only that but he felt a state need to abolish slavery before it could be readmitted. He also was not a great people person. A clash between Johnson and congress was inevitable at this point. But eventually congress brewed up a plan(pardon the term) Congress passed the civil right bill in 1866, when President Johnson vetoed a bill to extend the life of the Freedmen's Bureau. Congress wanted to amend it to include protection for the black population. So as you can see congress didn"t really have a plan for reconstruction so they differ very extremely. sorry for any falsifications i may have made it been a while
No, the state of California has it as historical property and takes care of reconstruction and repairs on the mission. It is open to visitors and has services.
It is because more and more people in the North where helping slaves escape to the North. Making it easier for slaves to run away... Once in the North many slaves would begin a new life.... and the Southern states had no power to remove a former slaves because there was no laws to protect the property rights of Southern Slave owners...
They wanted to be able to catch their slaves because they were property.
Because the Reconstruction plan he afforded to Southerners while Congress was adjourned was too generous by the Northern Republican's Standards. The Southerners had their property and citizen's right restored without having to make any concessions with regards to African-American's civil rights. The Southern states enacted Black Codes (special provisions to state law that only applied to African Americans). Blacks were not allowed to vote. Also, all their former Confederate enemies in Congress were re-elected into power.
The southerners viewed slaves as property.
Platt Amendment
States rights and property rights.
President Lincoln seemed to favor self-Reconstruction by the states with little assistance from Washington. To appeal to poorer whites, he offered topardonall Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to protect private property. Unlike Radical Republicans in Congress, Lincoln did not want to punish southerners or reorganize southern society. His actions indicate that he wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could draft new constitutions as swiftly as possible so that the United States could exist as it had before. But historians can only speculate that Lincoln desired a swift reunification, for his assassination in 1865 cut his plans for Reconstruction short.Source- Sparknotes.com-american reconstruction.
Some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution.
Some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution.
Some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution.
Some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution.
In favor. They saw slaves as property and wanted their property back.
Andrew Johnson granted amnesty and the restoration of property to all southerners willing to swear a loyalty oath