This East Tennessee Tailor would become the 17th President of the United States.

Guests discuss Andrew and Eliza Johnson’s experiences during the Civil War, and present a tour of the Johnson's home in Greeneville, TN 4 minutes Bell Ringer Assignment ...

Andrew Johnson: The impeached president 06:21. ... when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running for re-election during the Civil War and needed a running mate who'd balance the ticket, ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, ... This story has been updated to reflect that Civil War was not yet over when Lincoln was re-elected. Ad Feedback. Ad ...

President Andrew Johnson, formerly Vice President to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, officially declared the end of the war on Aug. 20, 1866, as documented by the University of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed presents a biography of the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson (1865-1869). A Southern Democrat who remained aligned with the ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April ... The official end came when President Andrew Johnson, ...

But like so much else in American history, the Civil War changed all that. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the so-called Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, and he stood in the way of a Reconstruction that would have done more to help former slaves. How post-Civil War ...

Andrew Johnson set back freedom for blacks for a century. ... Each assassinated president associated with civil rights — one fought a civil war, the other struggled with solutions.

On this day in 1868, the Senate put Andrew Johnson, who had become the nation’s 17th president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, on trial following his impeachment by the House. With ...

Bruce Burton notes that “Andrew Johnson pardoned hundreds of Confederate soldiers . . . to heal the wounds of the Civil War” (Letters, Jan. 24). True, but President Johnson also stipulated ...