Question

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan called for the former Confederate states to ______________________.

• A. pass the Civil Rights Act.
• B. support the Freedman's Bureau.
• C. endorse the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
• D. arrest all the men who served in the Confederate government.
• E. guarantee that the freedmen would attain the right to vote.

Answer 1

The correct option is C endorse the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan called for the former Confederate states to endorse the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. The 13th Amendment reads, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”