Professor Michael Ross explains the Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson. Bell Ringer Assignment. ... Explain the three main points of President Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan.

Lincoln was gunned down in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a man sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. In the years following the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, his ...

Johnson’s attempts to undermine the Republican vision of Reconstruction – and his willingness to pardon people en masse – eventually led to his impeachment in 1868.

In “The Failed Promise,” a new book about Reconstruction and Johnson’s impeachment, Robert S. Levine looks closely at the perspective of Douglass and other Black leaders.

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.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – National Constitution Week is about commemorating the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1787. To honor this time in history, the Andrew Johnson Nationa… ...