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Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book provides a brief biography of the seventeenth president of the United States and includes a special section about the branches of government, the Electoral College, the qualifications for office, the line of succession, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state governments, and disgusted by Johnson's brawling political style, congressional Republicans seized on a legal...
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 17
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A biography of the man who became the seventeenth president of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, providing information on his childhood, education, family, political career, time as president, and legacy.
12) Andrew Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book is a biography of the seventeenth president of the United States, from his humble beginnings as a tailor in North Carolina through his controversial term as the first post-Civil War president and beyond.
15) Andrew Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A portrait of America's seventeenth president describes Andrew Johnson's failed efforts to bring about reconciliation following the Civil War, the antagonism of congressional leaders who sought his impeachment, and his legacy for the present.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"When Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson became President, a fraught time in America became perilous. Congress was divided over how Reconstruction should be accomplished and the question of black suffrage. The South roiled with violence, lawlessness, and efforts to preserve the pre-Civil War society. Andrew Johnson--chosen as Vice President for electability, because he was a Southern Democrat--had no interest in following Lincoln's agenda....
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