![]() ![]() It fell to Congress to stop the American president who acted like a king. ![]() ![]() With the unchecked power of executive orders, Johnson ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights, and called Reconstruction unnecessary. Congress was divided over how the Union should be reunited: when and how the secessionist South should regain full status, whether former Confederates should be punished, and when and whether black men should be given the vote.ĭevastated by war and resorting to violence, many white Southerners hoped to restore a pre–Civil War society, if without slavery, and the pugnacious Andrew Johnson seemed to share their goals. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson became “the Accidental President,” it was a dangerous time in America. “This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America ![]() Event Location: Digital Surgeons, Suite 1, of The District New Haven Co-Work Space Join two American historians as they discuss their newest books on justice and equality in the United States. ![]()
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