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Andrew Johnson Impeachment Analysis

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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Malik Muhammad On April 15, 1865 at Fords Theater President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Andrew Johnson was then elected as the 17th President. After Lincoln's death, Andrew Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. When Congress met in December 1865 most Southern States were reconstructed, slavery was abolished, black codes were beginning to come out. Radical Republicans in Congress tried to change Johnson’s program. A few months later congress passed the 14th Amendment, by the time of May 1868 came, the Senate passed a single vote came to remove the President from office.
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