The good news: The era's story is told in two of ... Read the veto messages of President Andrew Johnson, who tried to block Reconstruction after taking over for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln ...

Resistance in both the state and federal levels made progress during the "Reconstruction Era" difficult ... president after Abraham Lincoln was Andrew Johnson. While Johnson was no friend to ...

America’s Reconstruction era, which lasted a little more than ... in support of Black citizenship after the war. He battled Andrew Johnson’s embrace of white supremacy and looked upon Radical ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social ... but this move was reversed by President Andrew Johnson, who was opposed to Reconstruction and ordered the land to ...

Andrew Johnson ... delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies ...

The era that we are experiencing ... the federal Reconstruction Act was enacted in 1867, after overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto. The new law required the division of the former ...