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Andrew Johnson helped acquire Alaska.
what President Johnson major contribution in office?
As President, Johnson "passed" no laws, although he did sign several into law after Congress forwarded them to him.
He is credited with the passage of the Homestead Act.
Major goals of President Johnson's Great Society were to help end poverty and to end discrimination in voter registration.
A major event is that man walked on the moon. Another major event is that President Kennedy was shot. Another major event was the bombing of Pearl harbor.
Reconstruction was the major domestic issue during Andrew Johnson's presidency. It was during his presidency that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments went into effect.
Andrew Johnson did not seek to punish the south as harshly as Congress wanted to at the time. This was a major sore spot for congress and one of the reasons that would eventually lead to the house impeaching the president.
When Andrew Johnson was president, slavery almost came about again (in fact many historians consider Johnson the most racist president in history). Things really got bad when the Congress left for summer vacation. President Johnson started passing bogus plans that the Republicans of the Congress (who held majority at that time) didn"t approve of. The republicans decided to take advantage of Johnson by passing a law (sorry forget what it was called) that didn"t allow Johnson to fire anyone in his Cabinet without their authorization. He fired William Seward, the secretary of war, anyway, thus he got impeached.
He got amrica out of dept
The Cherokee Indians were relocated and forced to walk the trail of tears.
he was assinated