Why wasn't the President's plan for Reconstruction enough?

He believed that this plan would accomplish his goals of freeing the slaves and restoring the Union as quickly as possible. House and Senate Republicans rejected the plan, fearing that it was too lenient on the South and didn't guarantee rights beyond freedom for former slaves.

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b) a rich merchant.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.