Question

After emancipation, many formerly enslaved people built farms on abandoned land. What did President Johnson do with this land during Reconstruction?

A)Johnson returned the land to its former owners.
B)Johnson seized the land for the federal government.
C)Johnson officially gave the land to formerly enslaved people.
D)Johnson arranged for the government to purchase the land.

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

President Johnson generally sympathized with the former plantation owners who were not opposing the Union, and promissed and ensured the execution of the return of the land to the plantation owners. So the answer is that he would take the land away from the freed slaves and return it to the previous slave owners, In other words option C.