Q 01/05

Which party did Andrew Johnson, the Republican Lincoln's running mate, belong to?

A) Whig

B) Free Soil

C) Democratic

D) Know Nothing

Answer · why

C) Democratic

Democratic: Johnson was the country's most prominent War Democrat, and Lincoln wanted him on the 1864 ballot to win voters beyond his own party.

Q 02/05

In which city was Andrew Johnson born?

A) Nashville, Tennessee

B) Raleigh, North Carolina

C) Charleston, South Carolina

D) Knoxville, Tennessee

Answer · why

B) Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina, is where his father, a porter, died after going to the rescue of drowning men when Andrew was three, leaving the family in po...

Q 03/05

To which trade was Johnson apprenticed as a boy?

A) Blacksmith

B) Cobbler

C) Tailor

D) Printer

Answer · why

C) Tailor

Tailor: bound to a master's shop as a boy, he never spent a day in school, and it was there that he first learned to read as well as to sew.

Q 04/05

What did the teenage Johnson's master do when he fled his apprenticeship?

A) Sued his mother

B) Posted a reward

C) Had him jailed

D) Let him go

Answer · why

B) Posted a reward

Posted a reward: the notice went up in 1824, and Johnson spent about two years on the run before coming back and failing to make peace with his old ma...

Q 05/05

Johnson settled and opened his shop in which Tennessee town?

A) Murfreesboro

B) Jonesborough

C) Greeneville

D) Columbia

Answer · why

C) Greeneville

Greeneville is where he arrived with his mother and stepfather in September 1826; within three years the newcomer was an alderman, and by 1834 he was ...