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Yes, railroads!.

As for your other question -- the answer is "B"


Johnson did NOT put the South under military control!. The Republicans in Congress did that, once they wrested control away from Johnson (who vetoed their plans but could not override them after the gained more seats in the election of 1866)!. Johnson's plan was actually EXCEEDINGLY lenient -- he basically asked the states to repudiate their secession and war debts and to accept the 13th amendment (so no, he didn't allow 'some slavery' to continue)!. He announced the process was already finished in December of 1865!

The problem is that Johnson did NOT worry about the harsh 'black codes' the Southern states passed to keep the newly freed slaves under control, limiting their freedoms, and in some ways practically returning them to slavery!. Nor did he seem to care that the leaders of the "Old South", who had led the way in secession, were quickly voted back into power!.

Since Lincoln's plans were flexible, changing according to the demands of circumstances (flexible was something Johnson was NOT!), and since he had made his concern for the rights of the freed slaves quite clear (even, just before his death, beginning to speak about at least some of them being ready to be given the vote), Johnson clearly did NOT act as Lincoln would have!.

Johnson also believed ANY government action to help them out (such as the Freedmen's Bureau) was actually unconstitutional!. (That sort of fit his roots as a Jacksonian Democrat!. But Lincoln as an "Old Whig" would have had a bit less trouble with such things!.)
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On the point of Lincoln's flexibility, and willingness to change plans as needed (when the situation changed), Lincoln himself made his approach clear in his LAST public address (April 11, 1865), in which he discussed the Reconstruction plans for Louisiana!. Note especially these remarks, near the end of the speech:

" What has been said of Louisiana will apply generally to other States!. And yet so great peculiarities pertain to each state, and such important and sudden changes occur in the same state; and withal, so new and unprecedented is the whole case, that no exclusive, and inflexible plan can be safely prescribed as to details and colatterals [sic]!. Such exclusive, and inflexible plan, would surely become a new entanglement!. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible!."
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The second link is Andrew Johnson's plan!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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railroads right you are!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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