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What pushed the US Congress to take over Reconstruction?

O People across the country criticized the Black Codes.

President Johnson put the South under military control.

Scalawags tried to keep freedmen from gaining rights.

Northern states refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

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A) people criticized black codes.

The codes put restrictions on African Americans working and if the government didn’t step in the newly freed population wouldn’t succeed in the southern states.
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