President Andrew Johnson, who is best known for being the first president to be impeached, vetoed protectionist legislation ...

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Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

We really enjoyed learning more about Andrew Johnson's life in East Tennessee and his road to the White House. Johnson became president as the Civil War was ending. A Democrat, Johnson ran with ...

Republican Abraham Lincoln picked Democratic Andrew Johnson as his running mate. This was following the Civil War, and he was ...

Vice-President Andrew Johnson became President after John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, Good Friday, at Ford’s Theater. Lincoln died the next morning.

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...