Presidency Chart – Andrew Johnson (17th) (1865 - 1869)

Why he was put on the ticket in 1864

 

Opponents of Andrew Johnson

Thaddeus Stevens

 

Charles Sumner

 

Edwin Stanton

 

Major Items during Johnson’s Presidency

Presidential Reconstruction:

Johnson’s plan

 

 

            Adoption of Black Codes

 

 

            Formation of the KKK

 


Freedmen’s Bureau (1865, 1866)

 

Ex Parte Milligan (1866) - Supreme Court ruled that military trials of civilians were illegal unless the civil courts are inoperative or the region is under martial law.

 

13th Amendment (1865)

 

Civil Rights Act (1866)

 

Congressional Elections of 1866

 

14th Amendment (1868)

 

Congressional Reconstruction: Reconstruction Acts (1867)

 

 

Tenure of Office Act (1867)

 

 

Impeachment Trial (March-May, 1868)

 

 

Purchase of Alaska (1867)

 

Relations with Indians

Red Cloud’s War (1866-1868)

 

Laramie Treaty of 1868