ANDREW JOHNSON     Seventeenth president 1865-1869 suddenly when Lincoln was assassinated   Lived 1808 to 1875   Republican from Raleigh, North Carolina   Grew up poor   Old-fashioned Southerner who stayed with North during Civil War   Believed in states’ rights   With congress out of session, he reconstructed the Confederate States.   Congress balked, Radical Republicans resisted.   Southern states passed laws restricting former slaves   Johnson was no compromiser.   Fourteenth amendment presented No imprisonment without due process of law.   Battle with congress led to a vote for an impeachment trial   Impeachment failed by one vote by a single vote.

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