Question

Which answer best describes President Johnson's views on granting former slaves the right to vote?

a. Johnson believed that former slaves should never be allowed to vote.

b. Johnson felt that all former slaves should be allowed to vote if they became citizens.

c. Johnson thought that former slaves should pass a literacy test before they could vote.

d. Johnson worked to create legislation that would make former slaves want to vote for him.

Answer 1

that dude was mad racist, so i would go with a

Answer 2

he referred to Martin Luther King as an Ni****r Preacher

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson was dead way before MLK was born........

Answer 4

yes the second one was inaccurate, my fault but the first wasnt, Like many people from the populist wing of the Republican/Unionist party of that time (he started as a pro-Union "War Democrat"), Andrew Johnson hated the slaveowners with a deep and personal passion.

However, he didn't just blame the slaveowners for the problems caused by slavery - he blamed black people for their very presence, and made a number of explicitly racist public comments.

As president he sabotaged Reconstruction. Johnson stopped the measures that empowered poor whites and black ex-slaves in the South, and strengthened measures that oppressed average people there, laying the groundwork for the "we suffered so during Reconstruction" mentality that still prevails there today. Among other things, under Johnson, federal troops disarmed leftist militias in the South that organized black ex-slaves and poor whites together.

His behavior as governor of Tennessee, and as vice president, was consistent with the view that he was racist, as well.

The corporate, more left-wing faction of the Republican Party in Congress, committed to a less racist course, was in fact behind his impeachment.

My opinion is, yes he was, and even more so than was customary for those times.

And as an individual, Andrew Johnson was a little nuts.

On one visit to the White House as vice president, he opened his trousers and urinated on the rug in a public room. He is accused of beating a man bloody for objecting to his taking out an opium pipe at a public meeting. He was pulled away from the podium by one of Lincoln's aides because his inauguration speech had degenerated into drunken, incoherent babbling. In one cabinet meeting he mused aloud about suicide, and about personally murdering an editor who published negative newspaper stories about him.

Andrew Johnson wasn't exactly a poster child for presidential decorum.

Answer 5

Im not really smart man, okay, so stop cuttin at me