Editing Radical Republicans (section)

===Control of Congress===
After the [[United States Senate elections, 1866|1866 elections]], the Radicals generally controlled Congress. Johnson vetoed 21 bills passed by Congress during his term, but the Radicals [[Veto override|overrode]] 15 of them, including the [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]] and four [[Reconstruction Acts]], which rewrote the election laws for the South and allowed blacks to vote while prohibiting former Confederate Army officers from holding office. As a result of the 1867–1868 elections, the newly empowered freedmen, in coalition with [[carpetbaggers]] (Northerners who had recently moved south) and [[Scalawags]] (white Southerners who supported Reconstruction), set up Republican governments in 10 Southern states (all but Virginia).