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How did "Radical", or "Congressional," Reconstruction differ from Presidential Reconstruction?

A. Congress distributed confiscated and abandoned Confederate lands to former slaves and held tribunals to prosecute Confederate political and military leaders

B. Congress attempted to relocate the former slave population to the West in order to solve the race problem

C. Congress stepped aside and let the states decide how to deal with the former slave population and the former Confederate leaders

D. Congress took the lead and took measures to define and protect the citizenship rights of former slaves while prohibiting former Confederate leaders from voting and holding political office.

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