Today, we discussed Johnson's Reconstruction and Black Codes and read how Andrew Johnson's leniency towards the South drove many to vote for the Radical Republicans, who then took control of Reconstruction. We read that Congress gave the Freedmen's Bureau more power and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which confirmed that former enslaved people were citizens and overturned the Dred Scott Decision. We also read about the Fourteenth Amendment and the Reconstruction Acts and finished up the session reading about the Fifteenth Amendment, which made it illegal to deny citizens the right to vote based on race. We both found it interesting to read that it did not make any qualifications based on gender; that is, women still could not vote. I shared a memory device with Ben to remember the 13, 14th and 15th Amendments (Free/Citizens/Vote).