Unable to mediate the interests of anti-slavery radicals (such as abolitionists) and those of the majority of the South, Johnson also proved inadequate to the tasks of dealing with Congress and ...

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 ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ... The event heightened Grant's popularity and depressed Johnson's ...