Johnson's impeachment
1868
yea votes for impeachment by region
121
29
29
Senate
11 Articles including abuse of power and illegal actions
North
West
South
abuse of power to make appointments
attempting to circumnavigate Congress
all Republicans and no Democrats voted yea
Sources: Govtrack.
Use the image to answer the question.
Which of the following best accounts for the number of southern votes cast for Johnson's impeachment?
(1 point)
• Only a few southern states have been readmitted to the Union.
• Southern states only had voting rights in the House of Representatives
• Only a few southern representatives were Democrats.
• Most southern representatives disliked Johnson.
3 answers
Only a few southern states have been readmitted to the Union.
"...The] said Cooper Hughs Freedman with his wife... are to work on said farm and to cultivate forty acres in com and twenty acres in cotton, to assist in putting the fences on said farm in good order and to keep them so and to do all other work on said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order and to raise a good crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised by them on said farm in said year 1867.. And the said IG Bailey party of the first part, agrees and binds himself to furnish necessary Mules and farming implements to cultivate said crop.."
—Contract, Marshall County, Mississippi, 1867
Use the passage to answer the question.
What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
(1 point)
• sharecropping
• black codes
• grandfather clause
• Ten Percent Plan
—Contract, Marshall County, Mississippi, 1867
Use the passage to answer the question.
What kind of arrangement is agreed to in this contract?
(1 point)
• sharecropping
• black codes
• grandfather clause
• Ten Percent Plan
sharecropping