Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the ... the nation was at a great juncture point trying to create a reconstruction plan to unite a country. Johnson’s plan for reconstruction ...

Andrew Johnson never expected to be president ... Blacks were to be freed but left to the mercy of white Southerners. His plan of action—to put whites back in charge in the South—set him ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...