Andrew Johnson

Of course. He was completely literate by the time he got into politics.

Andrew Johnson replaced Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, and Johnson assumed the presidency on the same day.

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The Tennessee Tailor

President Lincoln never had the time to put together a plan for reconstruction for the South. His assassination aborted any chance of that however all indications were that he would be lenient in areas that made sense.

The newly sworn in President Johnson also for his time had a more liberal approach to the Reconstruction problem than the radical republicans in congress.

He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, but his hometown was Greeneville, Tennessee.

He was not at all connected to the murderers, but the plot to kill Lincoln also included the killing of Andrew Johnson, but the man who was supposed to kill Johnson had second thoughts and did not carry out his assignment.

Abraham choose Andrew because he was a U.S. seneter from Greeneville in eastern Tennessee

Or, as it says in my old text book, because he believed Johnston "could help him bring the South back into the Union more easily."

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was Vice President. He became President when Lincoln was killed.

Johnson is buried in the cemetery at Greeneville, Tennessee.

A major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans was that Lincoln wanted to forgive and reintegrate the South back into the Union as painlessly and smoothly as possible while restricting the rights of freed slaves, whereas the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South as harshly as possible and grant full citizenship rights to freed slaves. After Lincoln's assassination, the Radical Republicans went on to pass a string of laws that would grant voting rights to freedmen, restrict any whites associated with the Confederacy from holding public office, create the South's first public school system, and provide charitable institutions like hospitals and asylums.

Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808

Andrew Johnson did not go to college. In fact, he never went to school at all. His family was poor and he was put to work as soon as he was old enough.

President Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction offered pardon and amnesty to participants in the rebellion who pledged loyalty to the Union. Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in April of 1865.

It passed through Congress over Johnson's veto.

Radical Republicans in congress had enough votes to override or defeat ,both vetoes, and the bills became law.

he was a president

His idea for reconstruction was to bury the south. The north was bitter and they did not want to give the south a chance to rise back up.
Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction Plan was an initiative to reunite the Northern and Southern states. Jackson's plan was different than Lincoln's in that he granted pardons where Lincoln wanted those from the South punished.

John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States. He was Vice President to William Henry Harrison, who died just a month after the inauguration. Tyler served the rest of Harrison's term, from April 4, 1841 to March 4, 1845.

1. This included having the state ratify the Thirteenth amendment and abolish slavery, as well as Amnesty for all those taking an oath of loyallty to the united states; Excluding high-ranking confederates who had property over 20,000 dollars in value, these had to apply for a pardon personally.

He was a Senator from Tennessee when the Civil War broke out, but remained loyal to the union after Tennessee seceded from it. He was the only southern senator who did not resign when his state seceded. He became President of the United States ( federal union, aka the North) when Lincoln was killed.

Initially at least, it is not clear that it did. Johnson followed Lincoln's approach in offering amnesty to former Confederates, the major difference being that he excluded persons owning over $20,000 worth of property, which Lincoln had not. In practice, however, most of those in the excluded categories soon received individual pardons, so it made little difference. Johnson followed Lincoln in suggesting (not demanding) that Blacks who were literate or owned a certain amount of property should be allowed to vote. He was less generous to them than Lincoln in that he did not call for the enfranchisement of those who had served in the Union Army. In the event, the Southern states refused to enfranchise any Blacks whatsoever, and Johnson acquiesced in this. It has been widely speculated that Lincoln would have been tougher and at some point would have hardened his position and insisted on at least a limited Black suffrage, thus changing his former suggestion to a demand. However, since Lincoln did not live long enough for the matter to arise, this can only be a matter of faith, not knowledge.

The main difference between President Lincoln's and the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction plans was their motives. Lincoln wanted to bring the two sides back together as one nation as soon as possible, and was willing to compromise to do so. The Radical Republicans, on the other hand, wanted revenge for the war, slavery and sought to punish the former Confederate states. While Lincoln wanted to make getting back in the Union easy, the Radicals wanted them to accept several military districts that were headed by Union officers.

Radical Republicans sought to regain the initiative in reconstruction affairs by campaigning for universal male suffrage. Radical Republican Senator Thaddeus Stephens of Pennsylvania urged that land owned by wealthy ex-Confederates be confiscated and given to freed slaves. Then General Oliver O. Howard, the head of the Freedman's Bureau, refused to obey President Johnson's directive and refused to return land and property to pardoned Confederates.