After acceding to the presidency, former VP, Andrew Johnson’s policy was not in line with what his predecessor had envisaged. As the provisional governor for South Carolina, President Johnson frustrated the bid to redistribute land confiscated under the auspices of the Lincoln’s Confiscation Acts (Roark et al, 2009 p87).
Therefore, the scheduled distribution of land administered by the Freedmen Bureau flopped dramatically after Johnson ordered the bureau to reinstate the land to the pardoned white owners thus restoring the former powerful plantation elite in the South.
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