RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Democrats and Republicans made a compromise.
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the first battle of the Civil War began.
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President Lincoln was assassinated.
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Ulysses S. Grant was impeached for treason.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
Detailed explanation-2: -With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states’ rights views.
Detailed explanation-3: -Booth assigned Powell to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward at his home, Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at the Kirkwood Hotel, and Herold to guide Powell (who was unfamiliar with Washington) to the Seward house and then to a rendezvous with Booth in Maryland.