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Andrew Johnson Impeachment Essay

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Impeachment is the act of removing a public official from office for being convicted of a crime. There are many different levels and types of impeachments that can be done today, but presidential impeachment is the most important. Throughout the history of the United States, an impeachment on the presidential level has only happened four times. Each of these impeachment trials happened for a different reason that violated the law in some way. President Andrew Johnson, President Bill Clinton, and President Donald Trump were the three presidents impeached, and they all had important and just reasons for their trials.
Growing up, Andrew Johnson was born and raised in poverty, and people have claimed that this was one of the reasons he was never …show more content…

Many people still believe today that Abraham Lincoln only chose Andrew Johnson as his vice president because he would get him more presidential votes from the South. On April 15, 1986, Abraham Lincoln’s dead body was found shot in an alleyway. Although his assassination was one of the biggest tragedies in United States history, it was Andrew Johnson’s big promotion. Soon after getting into office, Andrew Johnson was hated by many, and now that he was the president, the hatred for him would soon grow much larger. Andrew Johnson would get very mad after someone condemned his policies and authority. People would respond to his madness very negatively, which would make him even madder. Soon people were writing articles in newspapers about trying to impeach the president. The house of representatives wanted Johnson impeached badly enough to where it created an impeachment committee that would establish the eleven articles of impeachment. These were in an effort to try to …show more content…

Born in 1946, Donald Trump was elected president at the age of 70 in 2016. With his election came much hatred and separation between the republican and democratic parties. The separation is because Republicans loved his business strategies, but Democrats could not stand his personality. This election was the beginning of a constant fight between the two parties. Every chance one of the parties got a chance to attack the other party, they took it. The democratic party eventually received an advantage when it regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 elections. The House of Representatives gave democrats the ability to launch as many investigations into the president as they could. Many failed investigations were launched into his money transactions, calls, and personal life. Three years into Trump’s presidency, democrats found evidence that Donald Trump may have been blackmailing the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to gain control over the 2016 presidential election. On December 18, 2019, Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial was launched. The House of Representatives stated that Trump had been charged with the violations of obstruction of congress and abuse of power. Although he had been impeached, President Trump continued to serve his term. One of Trump’s most significant achievements as president was the economy. The economy was at an

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