Which of these BEST describes the reason Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson (above) to be his Vice President in 1864?
A) Johnson promised to have the South stop fighting before the end of 1865.
B) Lincoln wanted a Vice President who had never before held national office.
C) Lincoln believed Johnson's Southern roots would help heal the nation once the war was over.
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When it comes to politics making strange bedfellows, the Lincoln-Johnson ticket would seem to be one of the oddest tandems in U.S. history.

As the nation continued to be torn apart by a horrific Civil War, you’d probably expect a political party to rally its troops behind its own top two candidates. But in 1864, Lincoln chose a man who was not only from the other side of the aisle but who once represented the Confederate state of Tennessee in the U.S. Senate.

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Cheka

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Under the name Cheka, this Soviet secret police soon became the symbol for a system of terror such as the world had never seen. In later years its name was changed to OGPU, NKVD, MVD, KGB, but its purpose remained the same. Dzerzhinsky became the first head of the Cheka

the answer is option a.

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