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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...