Johnsons Reconstruction Plan:
In johnsons plan he pardoned southerners who took the oath to the union, states were required to abolish slavery and repay the confederate debt. States could then have elections and join the union.
Black codes:
-Black people couldn't gather after sunset
-Black men had to sign a agreement that said they would work for a year and those who quite early usually lost all of there pay
- Black people could rent or own homes only in rural areas
- Black people who didn't work could be wiped, fine or sold for a years labor.
14 and 15 amendment
- Stated that all american citizens could vote, and the color or race of that person didn't matter.
-all people born in the united states are citizens and no state can make laws making a certain race abide by the rules which another race doesn't
Carpetbaggers
-carpetbaggers were greedy men who tried to profit from the southerners
-usually educated men who wanted to make money
Scalawags
- people who oppose secession
- many scalawags were poor but not all

The war ends

At the end of the war, there are very big changes. The blacks are now free, but they are also now without a home or food. The war has destroyed two thirds of the souts shopping industries and the south has lost 260,000 soldiers. After the war there were many widows and orphans, due to the fact that all who fighted were men.

Linchon had a reconstruction plan put in place, which said that if any confederate who took oath with the uinio would be pardoned. There were no pardons for people who didn't take the oath. All states were to participate in anything the union did they were to come back fully to the union, this was another rule of reconstruction.

Blacks with freedom had the freeedom of movement, freedom to own land, freedom to worship and freedom to learn.