<P> As Confederate states came back under control of the U.S. Army , President Abraham Lincoln set up reconstructed governments in Tennessee , Arkansas , and Louisiana during the war . He experimented by giving land to blacks in South Carolina . By fall 1865 , the new President Andrew Johnson declared the war goals of national unity and the ending of slavery achieved and reconstruction completed . Republicans in Congress , refusing to accept Johnson 's lenient terms , rejected new members of Congress , some of whom had been high - ranking Confederate officials a few months before . Johnson broke with the Republicans after vetoing two key bills that supported the Freedmen 's Bureau and provided federal civil rights to the freedmen . The 1866 Congressional elections turned on the issue of Reconstruction , producing a sweeping Republican victory in the North , and providing the Radical Republicans with sufficient control of Congress to override Johnson 's vetoes and commence their own `` Radical Reconstruction '' in 1867 . That same year , Congress removed civilian governments in the South , and placed the former Confederacy under the rule of the U.S. Army . The army conducted new elections in which the freed slaves could vote , while whites who had held leading positions under the Confederacy were temporarily denied the vote and were not permitted to run for office . </P>
<P> As Confederate states came back under control of the U.S. Army , President Abraham Lincoln set up reconstructed governments in Tennessee , Arkansas , and Louisiana during the war . He experimented by giving land to blacks in South Carolina . By fall 1865 , the new President Andrew Johnson declared the war goals of national unity and the ending of slavery achieved and reconstruction completed . Republicans in Congress , refusing to accept Johnson 's lenient terms , rejected new members of Congress , some of whom had been high - ranking Confederate officials a few months before . Johnson broke with the Republicans after vetoing two key bills that supported the Freedmen 's Bureau and provided federal civil rights to the freedmen . The 1866 Congressional elections turned on the issue of Reconstruction , producing a sweeping Republican victory in the North , and providing the Radical Republicans with sufficient control of Congress to override Johnson 's vetoes and commence their own `` Radical Reconstruction '' in 1867 . That same year , Congress removed civilian governments in the South , and placed the former Confederacy under the rule of the U.S. Army . The army conducted new elections in which the freed slaves could vote , while whites who had held leading positions under the Confederacy were temporarily denied the vote and were not permitted to run for office . </P>
who supervised elections in the south during reconstruction
who supervised elections in the south during reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson