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  • Andrew Johnson tried to carry out Lincoln's plan for reconstruction , get the Southern states back into the union and deal with the freed slaves. He was faced with conflicts everywhere- from Congress which wanted to punish the South and from the Southerner who hated the union troops and the idea of former slave voting and running the country. He ended up fighting everyone, issuing many vetoes which were overturned. He fired the Secretary of War, who refused to leave.
  • Alaska was purchased from Russia.
  • He was impeached and had to fight for his job in a long trial.
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