Question

Why did President Johnson deviate from his original plan of punishing Southern aristocrats by making it difficult for states to reenter the Union?
A)-Johnson lost interest in the issue of Reconstruction upon Lincoln's assassination.

B)-Johnson became more interested in the passage of the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments.

C)-Johnson believed that the Union was paramount and the South should be represented.

D)-Johnson did not believe Southern landowners had done anything wrong leading up to the war.

E)-Johnson wanted to show his authority by passing the Civil Rights

Answer 1

E