The options of the question are:
A)The states in the South had to repair the damage they caused in the North. B)The states in the South had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. C)The land confiscated from Confederates had to be given to freedmen for farms. D)The states had to pass a law that guaranteed the freedoms of former slaves
The correct answer is B) The states in the South had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
<em>Part of President Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plan was that the states in the South had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
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<em>The plan of Andrew Johnson for the Reconstruction of t</em>he United States included the readmission of the Southern States once they had rewritten their state constitution. They also had to form their state governments, pay war debts and ratified the 13th Amendment. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, but President Johnson did not give former slaves the right to vote.
<span>The federal government of
the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into
operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington
took the oath of office as president. The government is called federal
because it was formed by a compact (the Constitution) among 13 political
units (the states).</span>
