The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was caused by the ideological differences between Congress and the president during the post-civil war reconstruction era.
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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, who was the first American president to be impeached. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:
Today on The Daily Dose, The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Following the outbreak of hostilities during the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was a highly regarded senator from Tennessee, as well as the only U.S. senator from a seceding state to remain loyal to the Union cause. Elected Vice President following the presidential election of 1864, which propelled Abraham Lincoln to a second term in office, Johnson was sworn in as president following Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater-a mere six days after the end of the Civil War. Johnson’s lenient, Southern- sympathizing policies soon bucked heads with the Radical Republican majority in Congress, who sought heavy-handed Reconstruction policies, intended to demand full suffrage and equal rights for freed slaves in the South.
In opposition to majority congressional sentiment, Johnson enacted lenient policies granting near immediate amnesty to ex-Confederates, as well as rapid restoration of statehood to seceded Southern states. He also gave his approval to the rise of local and quite unencumbered Southern governments that enacted Black Codes, effectively preserving a system of segregation and inequality in the emerging Jim Crow South. After Johnson repeatedly bucked ideological heads with his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton-a once leading Radical Republican in Lincoln’s administration-in March of 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act over Johnson’s immediate veto, which was tailored to prohibit Johnson from removing presidential cabinet members without congressional approval. In the fall of 1867, Johnson chose to challenge the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act, by replacing Stanton with Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, but after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on the case, Grant returned his office to Stanton, which did much to further Grant’s popularity as a future presidential candidate.
Having already debated impeachment following Johnson’s initial firing of his Secretary of War, on February 21st, 1868, Johnson yet again fired Stanton by appointing General Lorenzo Thomas to the office, refusing to yield to Congress by physically barricading himself in his office. Three days later, Congress drafted eleven Articles of Impeachment against Johnson, which led to his impeachment trial in the Senate on March 13th, under the supervision of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The trial concluded on May 26th, when the Senate narrowly failed to reach the necessary two-thirds majority vote for impeachment, making Andrew Johnson, the first of four sitting American presidents to face impeachment in the history of the American Republic.
And there you have it, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, today on The Daily Dose.

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Here for school if u are cool

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In very Shakespearean lens, Andrew Johnson is basically American Iago
“Do you mock me?”
“I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a man!”
-Thomas Nast‘s Othello Political Cartoon

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yo mama said that??

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Johnson stood alone against the vindictive Thaddeus Stevens and the cruel policies of reconstruction. I can not think of another President who stood for principle against such odds. A great man. After a dozen years the nation, sickened of reconstruction, brought it to an end. The Posse Comitatus Act was passed to forbid Federal troops from ever again being used for civilian law enforcement.

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Sound like , something out of Joe Biden playbook?

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he video overlooks one of the most bizarre and consequential confrontations in US political history that occurred the night before the May 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial. In the early hours of May 16, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house.
The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, accomplished diplomat who succeeded in introducing New York's most accomplished prostitute to Queen Victoria, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, past and future lover of the Spanish Queen, future recipient both of the Medal of Honor and the highest rank in France's Legion of Honor, and as of 1868, the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at her house at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving Andrew Johnson's presidency in a video entitled "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird": www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment."