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As Radical Republicans of the United States of America , we want to keep unity within our nation by protecting the rights of freed slaves ; they hold the right of to practice , "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and we want to grant justice for the free men woo been deprived of the their rights by nationalizing civil rights. As radical republicans, we came upon obstacles of the reconstruction of the south. For example, the ten percent plan, which provided full pardon for the southerners, but only 10 percent of the population in each state who took an oath to set up a loyal government. We opposed the 10 percent plan, so pushed congress's Wade Davis bill it required 50 percent of the voter to take the oath which passed in 1864; however, Lincoln vetoed the bill. After Johnson was made president because of Lincoln assassination, he ratified the XIII amendment, abolished slavery; consequently, he made the Black Codes, which was a set of rules for the freedmen. These sets of code were restrictions, for the freedmen were not granted full freedom, for example the Grand Father Clause, which denied citizenship to the people whose grandfather had been a slave. Meanwhile, President Johnson vetoed two bills; the first bill extended the life of an agency, The Freedmen Bureau (1865), which aided former slaves; the second bill, the civil rights act, which nullified the black codes, but soon after, the congress passed the civil rights over the president’s veto. Consequently, the Republican majority passed the most important amendment, the XIV amendment, which guaranteed equal human rights to all people. In 1867-1868, the Congress created Radical Reconstruction, series of acts that reorganized the south, for reconstruction. In 1868-1870 a southern treat surged, the Ku Klux Klan and other regimens, this organizations tormented the black community; therefore, the congress and we, the republican party, came up with the Force Acts, for we saw the suffrage of the black. These acts were created to help enforce the XV amendment, it allow the army to act against the klan and help protect the voting black. Short after, the Jim Crow laws took over the black voting community, these laws informally addressed that they either voted democratic or don't vote at all. Equality was not given for a long period. Even when slavery was abolished, the fourteenth amendment was written, and when the force acts were created, the blacks were still not free. They prayed freedom, but denigrating these people because of their skin color, making them use something of less quality that a white person would have never thought of using, that is not equality.