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 ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction ... which they did in 1866.

“We ain’t gonna let no color orange distract us from what we have to do ... In his speech, Johnson declared the beginning of a “new reconstruction era,” referencing the period after ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson ... they tried to do so was by passing the Reconstruction Acts ...