The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson's history in Greenville TN goes back to his childhood. He was born in Raleigh North Carolina in 1808 and apprenticed to a tailor there while still very young.

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 ...