With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell to a very old-fashioned Southern Democrat from Jackson states' rights view. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate of Presidents. Arrayed against him were the Radical Republicans in Congress, brilliantly led and ruthless in their tactics. Johnson was no match for them.
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in poverty. He apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy.
Entering politics, he became a master stump speaker, champion of the common man, and slandered the plantation aristocracy. As a member of the House and Senate in the 1840's and '50 's, he is a farm bill to clear courtyard stood up for the poor man to give.
During the secession crisis, Johnson remained in the Senate, even if separated Tennessee, makes him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners. In 1862 President Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee, and Johnson carried the state as a laboratory for reconstruction. In 1864 the Republicans, claiming that their National Union Party for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice-President was.
After the death of Lincoln, President Johnson went on to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He would forgive all who take an oath, but necessary to keep officers and men of wealth in a special presidential pardon.
By the time Congress met in December, 1865, most southern states were reconstructed, slavery was abolished, but "black codes" began to appear to regulate the freedmen.
Radical Republicans in Congress moved vigorously to change Johnson's program. It was from the northern countries, the dismayed to see, Southerners, many prewar leaders and imposing many prewar restrictions blacks were supported.
The Radicals' first step was to seat a Senator or Representative to refuse the old Confederacy. Next they went actions related to former slaves. Johnson's veto of legislation. The Radicals gained enough votes in Congress to pass the legislation over his veto -. the first time that Congress could override a president on a major bill you passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established Negroes as American citizens and forbade discrimination against them.
A few months later Congress submitted to the states of the Fourteenth Amendment, which means that no state would be states "any person of life, liberty or property to accept, without due process of law."
All the former Confederate states, except Tennessee refused to ratify the amendment, then there were two bloody race riots in the south. Speaking in the Midwest saw Johnson hostile audience. The Radical Republicans won an overwhelming victory in congressional elections that fall.
In March 1867 the radicals had their own plan for Reconstruction, again placing southern states under military rule. They passed laws restrictions on the president. Johnson then allegedly one of them, the mandate of the Act, by dismissing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton violated, the House voted eleven articles of the accusation against him. He was the Senate in the spring of 1868 brought to trial and acquitted by one vote.
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in poverty. He apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy.
Entering politics, he became a master stump speaker, champion of the common man, and slandered the plantation aristocracy. As a member of the House and Senate in the 1840's and '50 's, he is a farm bill to clear courtyard stood up for the poor man to give.
During the secession crisis, Johnson remained in the Senate, even if separated Tennessee, makes him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners. In 1862 President Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee, and Johnson carried the state as a laboratory for reconstruction. In 1864 the Republicans, claiming that their National Union Party for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice-President was.
After the death of Lincoln, President Johnson went on to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He would forgive all who take an oath, but necessary to keep officers and men of wealth in a special presidential pardon.
By the time Congress met in December, 1865, most southern states were reconstructed, slavery was abolished, but "black codes" began to appear to regulate the freedmen.
Radical Republicans in Congress moved vigorously to change Johnson's program. It was from the northern countries, the dismayed to see, Southerners, many prewar leaders and imposing many prewar restrictions blacks were supported.
The Radicals' first step was to seat a Senator or Representative to refuse the old Confederacy. Next they went actions related to former slaves. Johnson's veto of legislation. The Radicals gained enough votes in Congress to pass the legislation over his veto -. the first time that Congress could override a president on a major bill you passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which established Negroes as American citizens and forbade discrimination against them.
A few months later Congress submitted to the states of the Fourteenth Amendment, which means that no state would be states "any person of life, liberty or property to accept, without due process of law."
All the former Confederate states, except Tennessee refused to ratify the amendment, then there were two bloody race riots in the south. Speaking in the Midwest saw Johnson hostile audience. The Radical Republicans won an overwhelming victory in congressional elections that fall.
In March 1867 the radicals had their own plan for Reconstruction, again placing southern states under military rule. They passed laws restrictions on the president. Johnson then allegedly one of them, the mandate of the Act, by dismissing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton violated, the House voted eleven articles of the accusation against him. He was the Senate in the spring of 1868 brought to trial and acquitted by one vote.
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