The American civil war had just ended and the North was to establish an end to slavery. Then, in 1865 the government creates the 13th Amendment which is suppose to abolish slavery once and for all. Unfortunately however, the blacks still didn't have much rights. That's where the the Rise of Black Codes comes into play where blacks are officially limited to their rights compared to the whites. Because they were still people that disagreed about slavery being abolished, there was people like that in the government too, like President Johnson. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was at the moment a bill that was passed by Congress, but since Johnson didn't want blacks to has same rights as whites, he vetoed the bill. The result of this incident brings a rough relationship between Congress and the President. Then later that same year came the Freedmen's Bureau where blacks were receiving help and support after not being a being a slave for a while. Yet again since there were still whites that wanted slavery to continue, race riots broke out. But before the acts and everything that took place in 1866, the sad incident of Lincoln came along. In 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. Lincoln before his death though didn't want to punish the South harshly, but after his death people didn't get the idea and wanted the opposite. People soon wanted to punish the South very harshly for what they did, as revenge for the North. Then things went a little crazy with the idea of what to do with blacks. The Ku Klux Klan was formed and southerners started began sharecropping to brings blacks into unofficial slavery. Southerners would trick blacks into "good business deals", but make them end up in slavery again because some blacks didn't have education to know they were being tricked.
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