African Americans - President Andrew Johnson
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- Created on: 15-05-17 10:45
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- President Andrew Johnson
- Positive contribution
- Congressional measures of 1866 and 1867 still got through despite him.
- Survived impeachment by only one vote
- Indicates strong feelings against him and that he was ineffective as opposition
- Negative contribution
- Saw Union as biggest issue, not rights of AAs
- Wanted quick return to normality
- Sympathetic to new state assemblies in South
- They had confidence he would let them pass highly discriminatory Black Codes
- Congressional measures of 1866 and 1867 passed in teeth of opposition from him
- Bitter dispute led to Johnson being impeached, or tried, by Congress
- Saw Union as biggest issue, not rights of AAs
- Positive contribution
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