Treatment of Freed Blacks

After the civil war, the Union and the Confederacy join together once again to form United States. But that is not the only positive thing that comes out of the Union's victory. Late president Abraham Lincoln's vision for free slaves was coming true. It started when Lincoln's  Emancipation Proclamation  freed slaves in the south, but the free blacks in the north took it as if they were officially freed. Soon Andrew Johnson, succeeding Abraham Lincoln is presidency, started to make adjustments in the south to make the south a more appropriate place for the freed slaves. But Johnson decided to appoint people that would not enforce the laws, making it seem that the south was a hospitable place, but it actually was mirroring slavery. This shows how people were still opposing the blacks, as if they did not want to accept the fact that they had to live together. In Mississippi, the Black Codes were created to restrict and limit the freedom of the free blacks, but many people viewed it as laws only for blacks. Many of it was similar to slavery, and the whites determined whether or not they were guilty. The reason whites determined it was because the court was only composed of white people, many of whom were in the south and probably owned a slave. This was a period in which the white Americans had to adjust to the coming of black Americans, and it would  many to accept the fact that America is not only going to be for white people, but for blacks as well.