Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential Reconstruction
A) would implement a harsher program on the South than Lincoln had called for.
B) adhered substantially to the views of congressional leaders.
C) made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions of power in the reconstructed southern governments.
D) was never implemented, because Congress passed its own program before Johnson's could go into effect.

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Under Andrew Johnson, presidential Reconstruction allowed former high-ranking Confederates to regain power in the southern governments, as he was lenient and offered pardons to many of them.

Under New President Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction