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 ...

Andrew Johnson ... delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies ...

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 ...

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 ...