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How Did President Andrew Johnson Prevent Freed African Americans from Becoming

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How did President Andrew Johnson prevent freed African Americans from becoming self-sufficient farmers?


A) Johnson ordered the head of the Freedmen's Bureau to evict thousands of former slaves who had settled on confiscated or abandoned land in the South.
B) Freedmen were restricted under Johnson's executive orders to owning no more than 40 acres of land.
C) Johnson vetoed the bill that was meant to enlarge the Freedmen's Bureau and would let this agency assist former slaves in obtaining free or inexpensive land.
D) Johnson signed congressional legislation that made it illegal for freedmen to own land.

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