After emancipation, many formerly enslaved people built farms on abandoned land. What did President Johnson do with this land during Reconstruction?

President Andrew Johnson reversed the land policy that had allowed some formerly enslaved people to settle on abandoned land. He pardoned many former Confederates and returned their property, including the land, to its former owners. As a result, the freedpeople who had begun farming there were often forced to leave.

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