In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. ... The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy.
It's not C because it doesn't say anything about the imperial court it's not A because the ex given in the passage was a scenario nor B because she said she imagined so its D :)