The correct answer is C) by overriding the veto and expanding the agency's powers.
<em>When President Johnson vetoed a law that would extend the Freedmen's Bureau, Congress reacted by overriding the veto and expanding the agency's powers.</em>
President Jhonson and Congress lived many moments of tension during the Reconstruction. President Johnson vetoes did not like the Congress and it became a permanent conflict between the legislative branch and the executive branch.
The Freedmen's Bureau of 1865 was established to help African American people and poor white men that lived in the South, after the end of the Civil War. So it is true that when President Johnson vetoed a law that would extend the Freedmen's Bureau, Congress reacted by overriding the veto and expanding the agency's powers.
The policy of allotment helped numerous American Indian
families, as each family received one hundred and sixty acres of land for the
purpose of farming. The Dawes Act or the General Allotment Act of 1887 gave the
power to the American President to survey the tribal lands and divide them
among the tribal’s for the sole purpose of farming and improving their
lifestyle. The main reason behind this land allotment was that the tribal’s
used very backward method for the purpose of cultivation of crops.
