Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

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 ...

REVERDY JOHNSON, who voted in the United States Sonato for the reconstruction Bill, at the last session of Congress, has written the following letter on that subject to a Southern gentleman.

Andrew Johnson follows for botching Reconstruction and opposing civil rights for African Americans. -George W. Bush is criticized for the Iraq War and the financial crisis. -Herbert Hoover is ...