Question

why johnson opposed radical reconstruction legislation and what his views were about how the south should be treated in reconstruction.

Answer 1

President Johnson soon disappointed Radical Republicans by rejecting their concept that the federal government could provide freed slaves voting rights. The first debates between the president and the Radical Republicans on how to deal with the vanquished South laid the stage for future strife.

President Johnson was adamantly opposed. He vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, stating that it would increase government size. He vetoed the Civil Rights Act, claiming that blacks do not have the "same property and person rights" as whites. Johnson's racism outraged moderate Republicans.

Johnson's stated reasons for rejecting the law were identical to those cited by the measure's opponents in the House and Senate: extending the original act was unnecessary, and it infringed on states' rights.

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