During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, freed African Americans faced many challenges. Most were illiterate and unfamiliar with the world beyond where they were born. They also faced hostility from the white population, who blamed black people for the hardships of Reconstruction. A new president, Andrew Johnson, took office after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Johnson played a key role in Reconstruction policies as president. Two major causes of difficulties during this period were the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves against the wishes of many white southerners, and the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to freed slaves and forbade states from denying them rights, causing further tensions.

1. Reconstruction
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After the reconstruction, the African Americans
facedhorriblechallenges in the aftermath of the civil war mainly
illiterate African Americans and knowing little of world beyond
the location of their birth place, they also faced a largely hostile
white population who tended to blame many of their
tribulation who on black people, for the former slaves, but life
in general remained harsh and threatening for the African
Americans.
During this period of study, A new president arrive he was,
President Andrew Johnson he was the achiever after President
Abraham Lincoln. President Andrew Johnson played a specific
role in the reconstruction as the president of the United States

2. of America. In 1886 Johnson vetoes the renewal of the
freedmen’s Bureau charter and congress passed the civil Right
Act of 1886 over Johnson veto congress drafts the fourteenth
Amendment Johnson delivers “swing Around the Circle”
speeches.
There were many laws passed during the reconstruction period,
such as the, the Freedmen’s Bureau ACT, the Thirteenth
Amendment, the Civil Right ACT of 1886, And the Fourteenth
Amendment and others.
There were many reason for all these difficulties to occurred in
the reconstruction period, but the Proclamation Emancipation,
and the fourteenth Amendment, was 2 of the key reason why
difficulties occurs.
The proclamation Emancipation was an executive order issued
by President Abraham Lincoln as war measure during the
American civil war, to all segments of the executive branch. It
also proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that
were still in rebellion, and white southerners didn’t want to
free there slaves they didn’t like the proclamation
Emancipation. And because the fourteenth Amendment
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the
United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In

3. addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty
or property, without due process of law". This cause even more
difficulties during the Reconstruction period.