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Congressional Reconstruction was Congress's attempt at Reconstruction after they overtook Johnson. Congress put forth a plan that allowed the South to reenter the nation.

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In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

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The Black Codes were restrictive laws, especially for the African Americas. They were restricting African Americans freedom.

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Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States until well he got assassinated. Lincoln was working on the process on freeing the former slaves. When Andrew Johnson was elected president, he took most of Lincolns ideas and started to go with Lincolns plans.

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The period after the Civil War (1865-1877) was the Reconstruction Era