Deeper into the reconstruction

Johnson's Reconstruction "Carrying Out Lincoln's Plan"(April 15, 1865- March 4, 1869)

Lincoln had already started on the plan and it was not much different after Johnson’s input. He started by pardoning the South with some exceptions. Property amongst the whites was going to be shared and their slaves would be free. Confederate leader took charge of the reconstruction.

Black codes were the names given to the laws that the South’s government passed buring the presidency of Andrew Jackson. These laws insited on prohibiting the rights of the blacks to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations. After the civil war congress passed the Civil Rights Bill to protect the blacks from the back codes.

Northern News Reports: Reconstruction Times

July 16th 1865 Page 2
Northern News Reports
Reconstruction Times
The bloody years are over! After the four years of civil war the soldiers that were against each other are now friends. God bell on this day the 364,000 healthy young men in witch 38,000 were powerless African Americans and the 260,000 adults that died on those bloody days. American bloodshed will probably never be as much as in the past years.
The results of the war were disastrous. While young children that are unable to take care of themselves without parents are out on the streets as orphans, wives are widows with no husbands to care for them. The plantation owners loosing a lot of money will be forced to sell their farms to pay off their debts from the war. Now that the Sothern farmers have no free labor because of the freedom of all black raced people, their farms are but naked fields. The North still strong welcomes African Americans to work in factories or in northern farms. Some black still choose to stay are workers in the farms they were in before the war.
Sorry is what we should be for the brave president Lincoln (see more on page 1) that was just assassinated, but we cheer Andrew Johnson to continue the plan that the one that has left us began. Congress is taking a break during these days. Our leaders agreed that slavery should be eliminated, and that secession has to be totally omitted. We are glad to welcome in our government the 13th and 14th amendments which will provide opportunity for more people. We can only hope that the reconstruction will be over by 1877.

The compromise of 1850 and the new presidency

The compromise of 1850 had a main goal, it was to level off the slave situation in the states. First California was entered as a free sate, while New Mexico and Utah were to be teratories that each decided for themselves wheather they were going to become free or slave states. The slave trade was to be taken off of district Columbia. With it came a fugitive slave act wich said that officers that did not arrest run away slaves were to pay a fine. It also went against the Missouri comprimise, and this infurated lost of people in the north. The terratories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their own weather they would allow slavery or not. This lead people to migrate there to win the election and decide. As people for slavery votes too many times, it was considered fraud and was not approved that they won.

When president Abraham Lincoln was elected, he ran a big danger because people were after his blood. Abraham's new nickname became "the rail splitter". He won the election in the democratic party in the election of 1860. There were now issues about braking away from the country, that existed even before then. It now became more urgent that war was neede, the civial war which started the next month after that.