The Civil War exposes the risks of charging — or not charging — Trump. Andrew Johnson chose lenient punishments for the Confederate leadership. It helped fuel Jim Crow, but prevented renewed ...

Johnson clashed with a radical band of Republicans who wanted to provide rights to freed slaves and prevent Confederate leaders from regaining political control of Southern states, policies which ...

Andrew Johnson: The impeached ... when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running for re-election during the Civil War ... Despite the personal pleas of abolitionist leader Frederick ...

Before he was impeached, President Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white.

President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment shows how removing a president can inflame tensions in an already divided ... How should the federal government treat Confederate leaders and seceded states?

Andrew Johnson, 29 Dec 1808 ... In addition to pardoning former Confederate leaders, Johnson vetoed the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, the Civil Rights Bill, and three military Reconstruction acts, all ...

He was released from indemnity by Andrew Johnson, a pro-slavery, anti-Black President. ... controversial general who was critical of the Confederate leadership and saw people against him everywhere.

Two years after the fateful month of April 1865, when the Confederacy surrendered, ending the Civil War, and John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC, America’s 17th president ...

Mr Johnson’s post-US Civil War policies empowered racist Southern governments to install Confederate leaders and pass laws that limited the rights of recently-freed former slaves.

In Andrew Johnson, ... U.S. Presidents The so-called accidental president is often cited among America's worst leaders. ... would go back to how it was before the Civil War, only without ...