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what was president johnson's reason for returning federally controlled land? short and long-term impacts?

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In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

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