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During the Congressional elections of 1866, President Andrew Johnson had to go against Radical Republicans for whether the south should be treated with leniency or not.
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this was to be the first of the issue between the 39th Congress and the President Andrew Johnson over the future of the former Confederacy and African-American civil rights.
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The presidential reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1867. The president's Reconstruction was lenient. not many Confederate leaders were prosecuted. By 1866, 7,000 Presidential pardons had been granted.
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The south was divided into several military districts governed by previous union generals.
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The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors." Andrew Johnson rejected the law Congress passed to protect the rights of people who had been past slaves.
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the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state.
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The withdrawal of union troops resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era
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The panic of 1893 was an economic depression that lasted for around four years
