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 ...

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 ...

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 ...