The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was the first president to be impeached. The issues that led up to this monumental event in 1868 were for the most part, based on the issue of Reconstruction. Reconstruction aimed to create equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and with use of public facilities. After all, the civil war had just concluded with the northern states victorious. Tension over the issue …

…of Ohio, who was next in line for the presidency. Also, some did not believe that the charges were strong enough, and thought that the motives of Johnson’s accusers were not pure enough to remove a president from office. After all, the President was indeed elected by the people, for the people, and Johnson only attempted to represent the will of Americans who had the lower hand in America’s government during his term.