1. Goals and Strategies of Reconstruction
Republicans were able to override Johnson's vetoes of both the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the first Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act said that all African Americans to be U.S. citizens and also attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the southern states" Black Codes. ... It "declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and it obligated the states to respect the rights of U.S. citizens and provide them with "equal protection of the law's and "due process of law."" (Amsco- Pg. 294) There was also the Reconstruction Act ...
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