Which of the following statements describes the resettlement of former slaves in the South?
a. Under Johnson's amnesty plan, ex-Confederates were allowed to recover their land, and freedmen were forced to work for them or leave.
b. The Freedmen's Bureau permanently resettled 10,000 African American families on "Sherman lands."
c. Bands of ex-Confederate soldiers and plantation owners drove African Americans from the confiscated land that they were occupying.
d. Every former slave was given forty acres and a mule in compensation for their years of forced labor.
a. Under Johnson's amnesty plan, ex-Confederates were allowed to recover their land, and freedmen were forced to work for them or leave.
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A) Edward Winslow. B) William Bradford. C) John Smith. D) John Winthrop.