Why Specifically Did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan Fail

question 15

Multiple Choice

Why specifically did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?

• A) The South remained poor.
• B) Black southerners were apathetic to equal rights.
• C) Prominent ex-Confederates and pre-Civil War elite came into power.
• D) Blacks refused to work with white politicians in the South.

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