Many Southern Whites had opposed Reconstruction from the start. They wanted to regain the wealth and power that they had before the Civil War. They also wanted to limit African-American's freedoms and rights. Some asked the courts to take back the land that had been given to freedmen.
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They were afraid that free African Americans could organize revolts much easier that those enslaved.
They got mad that President Andrew Johnson didn't give the South much of a punishment.
Southerners opposed the Wilmot Proviso. This is because the Wilmot Proviso established peace with Mexico, and the land that Mexico owned was in the South.
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Many Northerners were for the proclamation that ended slavery. However, there were Northerners who felt like Southerners and opposed it.
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Many white Southerners opposed the new Reconstruction governments because they enforced the newly-bestowed rights of blacks. Many Southerners also felt that the governments were hostile and gouged h hmm d g v h