Explain the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson by the House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal in the Senate. What influence did this event have on American history?|||Thank you!!! I just learned something today. I didn't know the answer to your Q and since that bugged me I googled it (with Yahoo) and read about it at the "historyplace.com" website.
Fascinating stuff. What a creep. Obviously Congress and his own cabinet members (admittedly inherited from Lincoln) had a spine back then and refused to back down from his UNITARY type presidency and placed Congress in their proper Constitutional place.
Without these strong measures including the rapid implementation of the Reconstruction efforts in the South; the Union may have suffered a disintegration once again into the chaos of Civil War...my take.
Once again, thanks, I found a new site to add to my bookmarks, too.|||The main reason the House impeached President Johnson is because of two things.
First he wanted to bring the South back into the Union and the biggest reason is because he fired a cabinet member that the House wanted him to keep. This cabinet member did not want to follow President Johnson's decision but rather wanted to do what his friends in the House wanted.
The House used trumped up charges to impeach him and the Senate by one vote refused to convict.|||yes, interesting...learned this in jr.high school....I was just thinking....had the internet(and this board)existed back then, can you IMAGINE the number of whiners there whould've been on the House side,crying out for impeachment of that evil president??!?!?!?!?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment