It highlights the political conflict between President Andrew Johnson's conservative approach to Reconstruction and the radical Republicans in Congress who sought to enforce civil rights and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of ... the nation was at a great juncture point trying to create a reconstruction plan to unite a country. Johnson’s plan for reconstruction included ...

Social equality is thrown up as an argument against Reconstruction ... and into the fall of 1866 -- allowed to fruition by Andrew Johnson's administration -- the black codes were laws passed ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...

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 ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...