A. You can easily rule out wishes and entertainment because the definitions (and connotations) do not match the rest of the sentence. Embarrassment also does not fit, because one can infer from word choice that the people were far more angry than embarrassed.
Presidential Reconstruction. ... Johnson, like Lincoln, had grown up in poverty. He did not learn to ... Would he support limited black suffrage as Lincoln did Six weeks after Johnson was inaugurated as U.S. vice president in 1865, ... to buy property and acquire several African-American slaves, who worked in his ... Like Jackson, Johnson considered himself as a champion of the common man.
