Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

In frequent speeches and interviews, Johnson publicly expressed his defiance of the Radical Republicans. They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ...

Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, becomes president. May: President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property -- except ...

December 25, 1868, and January 20, 2025, will now be forever linked in American history. These are the dates when two of our ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... the people and the new president, Andrew Johnson, were with them. They had not watched the country bleed simply to reunite it, unmended ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South did not include assurance of rights for newly-freed ...