What stopped the Freedman's Bureau from distributing land to former slaves?

a. President Johnson ordered confiscated land returned to its former owners.
b. There simply wasn't enough good farmland in the South.
c. Bureau officials were corrupt and sold most of it to northern speculators.
d. The freed people were too ignorant to know how to use it effectively.


A

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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