<span>pril 15, six weeks after Andrew Johnson was sworn in as vice president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Had the assassin's plot gone as planned, Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Secretary of State William Seward would have also been killed. As it turned out, co-conspirator George Atzerodt had stalked the vice president but lost his nerve at the last minute. Johnson, who was staying at the Kirkwood House hotel, rushed to Lincoln's bedside when he was told of the attack. A few hours after Lincoln's death, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase swore Johnson in as President of the United States. Republicans were relieved that Johnson had not been killed and could provide continuity; they thought that he would be putty in their hands and would follow the dictates of Republican congressional leaders.</span>
An example of the crisis of the roman catholic church in the late middle ages is the Western Schism, a split within the catholic church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two men claimed to be the true pope, thus dividing the church into two groups, one that believed one man, and another that believed the other man.
<u>Answer:</u>
The Columbian Exchange is most closely associated with the beginning of mercantilism.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The Columbian Exchange was a course of events that resulted in the exchange and interchange of a number living and non-living, tangible and intangible entities between the regions of the new world and the old world. The most important thing about it was the concept of mercantilism and cross border trade. This process had commenced in the early 14th century.
