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 Southshould 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 Bill of 1866, and needed the South to do it.
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The end of the Civil War saw the beginning of the Reconstruction era, when former rebel Southern states were integrated back into the Union. President Lincoln moved quickly to achieve the war’s ultimate goal: reunification of the country. He proposed a generous and non-punitive plan to return the former Confederate states speedily to the United States, but some Republicans in Congress protested, considering the president’s plan too lenient to the rebel states that had torn the country apart. The greatest flaw of Lincoln’s plan, according to this view, was that it appeared to forgive traitors instead of guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves. President Lincoln oversaw the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, but he did not live to see its ratification.
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C is the Correct Answer "Johnson believed that the Union was paramount and southern states should be represented."
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