I remember the first time I tracked with you Nick, I just would like

like can you back away from the microphone I was like what

are you a friend of cemetery are you in this oh this is the piece of trivia I know what this is

for listeners for seeing that you know how to uh to um make sure you spell cemetery properly

no but I would love to know they're so scary you go yeeeee all the way through it

it's not ta-r-y no it's an ee you go all the way through all the way through you want to hear

something really embarrassing you know what else is ee all the way through competent you know who

has to check her spelling on competent every time she writes it this incompetent person right here

I feel like my spelling is so bad now it's just

hello hello everyone you are listening to civics 101 I'm Hannah McCarthy I'm Nick

Epidichet and this is another installment of the thing where our senior producer Christina

Patre is what we do not know about American government and history in other words it's time

for civics 101 trivia I'd actually say that's one of the great privileges of being the host of

civics 101 Hannah we can readily admit to not knowing things and not knowing things we do

not know we do not know a lot of things time to find out which of those our whole audience will

learn the dark truth of today Nick so without further ado senior producer Christina Phillips takes

it away and makes us squirm because actually the other secret is that we wish we knew everything

let's do this so our first question is about the reconstruction era which to give you a little

background began in the 1860s during and after the Civil War and from 1861 to 1875 Republicans

controlled both the House and the Senate Lincoln's assassination in 1865 made his Democratic VP

Andrew Johnson the president and at the time the Republican Party was the party of reconstruction

while the Democratic Party especially Southern Democrats were opposed to most any kind of civil

...