The congressional Reconstruction program enacted in 1866-1867 provided for all of the following EXCEPT
A. a requirement that southern states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before readmission.
B. a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen.
C. military occupation.
D. citizenship and suffrage for former slaves.
Answer: B
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