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Select one of the following answer options:

A. Confederate leaders
B. Former holders of enslaved people
C. Southern Democrats
D. President Johnson



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Final answer:

President Andrew Johnson took a lenient stance towards the Southern states during Reconstruction, opposing rights protection for freed slaves.


Explanation:

President Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln after his assassination and took a lenient approach towards the Southern states during the Reconstruction era, opposing legislation aimed at protecting the rights of newly freed slaves. He supported the abolition of slavery with a motive to punish the state's slaveholders in Tennessee.


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