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Which of the following individuals pardoned former confederates and did not attempt to protect the rights of newly freed slave

A. Frederick Douglass
B. Blanche K. Bruce
C. Andrew Johnson
D. Abraham Lincoln

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C. Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president of the US and followed Lincoln after his assassination. He was a Democrat and as vice president offered a good bridge to the South as the Civil War was ending but as president he was not trusted by the Republicans.

Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate leaders, allowing them to keep their land and sometimes positions in society. He provided an easy path back into the Union and did not protect blacks from the growing power of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Johnson vetoed a civil rights act that would have prevented segregation and violence against former slaves. His policies would convince Republicans that they would have to take Reconstruction over in Congress.

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The United States did not attempt to protect the newly freed enslaved people nor did it want to punish former confederates under the presidency of C. Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was:

  • A Southern Democrat who was President Lincoln's Vice President
  • The President after Lincoln
  • Opposed to the reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans

Andrew Johnson did not want to punish the Southern states too much so he pardoned a lot of former confederates. He also believed that the states should do whatever they wanted with the now freed Black Americans and so did not protect them from the racial policies of the Southern states.

In conclusion, Andrew Johnson went down as one of the worst presidents in history because he did not want to protect the rights of Black Americans who had suffered slavery for centuries.

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