How One Vote Can Make A Difference Andrew Johnson had a history of politics and came from the slave state of Tennessee, but refused to resign as United States senator when the state seceded. When Reconstruction began in1865, he worked to preserve the Union and won the office of vice president ...
During the years following the presidential reconstruction of the Southern states (1865-1867), a demanding Northern population called for harsher repercussions to the civil war's losing side. The standards that were Laissez-faire set, or stuck down rather, by President Andrew Johnson, were unsatisfa...
After the civil war ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal...
"We don't want no negro thinkin' that he has the same rights as us! Slaves should always be slaves!" Shouts a Southern citizen at the Memphis Tennessee Race Riot of May 1866. Violent riots like these were not always common in Tennessee and Louisiana, but due to the Radical Republicans, the Democrats...
On April 14, 1865 our sixteenth president was assassinated. President Abraham Lincoln was attending a comedy entitled "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. when "A shadowy figure stepped into the box, stretched out his arm, aimed a small derringer pistol at the back of Lincoln'...
When the Civil War ended the country had a lot of work to do. Being the victors of the war the North had to deal with most of the problems. The South was left in chaos, all of the former slaveholders were now poor and without workers, and all of the former slaves had no homes, or work. The South was...
