What the newly freed African Americans needed to do what after the war
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Mainly as a way of preventing poor people- especially newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War- from voting. If you're poor and have little/no money, you're not going to want to spend that money to pay a special tax just to be able to vote.
(newly freed slaves)
In the 1870â??s, the United State Supreme Court reached decisions that changed the way citizens were treated as well as the way the government was run. Following the end of the Civil War, newly freed slaves and other African-Americans were granted the same rights as all Americans and guaranteed protection under the law. States that had previously enjoyed more autonomy, were denied the power to define the rights of their citizens and new restrictions to the 14th amendment were applied.
Andrew Johnson did nothing to help newly freed slaves. He was more concerned with helping White people who were hurt by the Civil War, especially Southerns. While Andrew Johnson was fulfilling President Abraham Lincoln's pledge to forgive the South after the war, he ignored everything President Lincoln wanted to do to help the newly freed slaves after the end of the war.
They feared revenge from the newly freed slaves.