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He often ____ for laws supporting the poor man, such as the Homestead Act, where poor applicants could own government-owned land.

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Around that time, he also served in the state’s militia as a member of the 90th regiment, ____ to colonel.

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This action only lowered his popularity, resulting in an ____ that he almost did not survive, saved only by one vote.

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He soon lost his son to an ____ suicide and contracted ____ in 1873.

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Johnson despised the conditions so much that he ran away before his ____ was over.

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Overall, his views on slavery and the divisions he created between himself and Congress were widely acknowledged by historians as ____ potential progress towards Reconstruction.

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Instead, his mother sent him to be an ____ under a tailor named James Selby.

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Johnson did little in the area of foreign policy, choosing to keep things as they were during President Lincoln’s term and under new Secretary of State William Seward, who was an ____.

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He soon lost his son to an ____ suicide and contracted ____ in 1873.

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He entered politics when he became ____ and eventually mayor of Greeneville.