Causes Of Andrew Johnson's Resistance To Reconstruction

After the Andrew Johnson’s resistance to reconstruction included bring Confederate states into the Union and letting the African American men vote. Under his held ideals of “white suffrage”. It pitted him in opposition against Congress; thus, his stubborn stance against Reconstruction is the real reason that lead to his impeachment hearing under the Tenure of Office Act of 1867, which is a federal law that passed by congress to restrict the power of the President remove people from office without the approval of the Senate, when he removed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from his office.
Reconstruction was the period following the Civil War, when the states of the Confederacy where the government controlled bringing them back into the union and gave rights to African Americans in the process. White suffrage simply meant: only white males could vote. Johnson desired to utilize the Confederate states for that very reason. Congress was rebuilding the United States after the ravages of the Civil War, though civility had

And like every political battle in the Senate, the Legislation and the Judicial branches of our government, when a president stands in the way of justice and freedom – charges can be brought to impeach. That does not mean it is always carried out, even if trials go one tediously. Ambiguous technicalities were defended well on Johnson’s behalf, and moderate Republicans had concern of upending the balance of the three branches of government afore mentioned. And like many political maneuvers that go on behind the scenes of trials and tribulations of American life and politics, Johnson made the promise to appoint a new Secretary of War, General John M. Scholfield and to relent in the obstruction of Reconstruction. Upon these few facts, his acquittal came with a one vote shy of the two-thirds majority needed to impeach