Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote... Died: July 31, 1875. The issue that vexed the nation following the Civil War was how to re-form the Union. Northern Republicans insisted that the ...

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 ...

His father’s death when the boy was three left the family in poverty. From age fourteen to age seventeen, young Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. He then moved with his mother and stepfather ...

Three years later, which was also a year after Lincoln’s assassination, a post-Civil War Alabama was going ... under order of new President Andrew Johnson. In Alabama, state lawmakers took ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.

Chervinsky When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ...