This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and his impeachment by the House of Representatives. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of Lincoln, oversaw the most crucial and dramatic phase of Reconstruction. Historians have therefore tended to concentrate, to the exclusion of practically...
Describes America at the start of Reconstruction and identifies President Andrew Johnson as one of the reasons it proceeded with such difficulty.
Johnson to William Lowry , February 13 , 1870 , R. S. Saunders to Johnson , December 13 , 19 , 1869 , J. C. Burch to Johnson ... 2ff . , 10–12 ; A. S. Colyar to Johnson , May 19 , August 30 , October 5 , 1870 , John McGaugey et al . to ...
This volume encompasses the last six months of Andrew Johnson's presidency (September 1868-February 1869) and March and April of 1869.
... 154, 204 Doughtry, Turner 9 Douglas, Stephen A. 15, 17–18, 92 Drake, Charles D. 126 Durrell, Edmund H. 220 Early, ... Hamilton 212 Flanders, Benjamin F. 40 Forney, John W. 39, 40, 207 Forrest, Nathan Bedford 25, 26, 104–105 Foster, ...
Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot
Surveys the political career and private life of the only president ever to be impeached.
Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (LIBRARY JOURNAL). Photos.
Speeches of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
Johnson , Andrew . Life , Speeches and Services of Andrew Johnson , Seventeenth President of the United States . Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson & Brothers , 1865 . The Papers of Andrew Johnson , especially volumes 1 ( 1822–1851 ) ...