andrew johnson

What if Radical Republicans got what they wanted and gave 40 acres and mule to former slaves along with capital and equipment to farm. Andrew Johnson never becomes President. Radical Republicans successfully redistribute planter lands among former slaves. This prevents the Solid South from...

From February 24 to May 26 1868 Andrew Johnson was tried in the nations first impeachment of a sitting president. He was charged with eleven "High crimes and misdemeanors" cheif amongst them trying to replace Edward Stanton as Secretary of War when Congress was not in session which was argued...

We all know how awful Andrew Johnson was the moment he became President from how he handled Reconstruction, but we also know how the North would not be all that receptive to a Radical Republican Presidency in 1865-1869 if they somehow escape Booth's assassination. What other southern Democrat do...

President Andrew Johnson, successor to Abraham Lincoln, is often listed as one of America's worst or least effective presidents, many times taking second place to James Buchanan. Though Johnson had the support of the Republican Party in 1865 when he took office, it had evaporated by the end of...

Apparently there was a lot of belief that many of those who voted against Johnson's conviction was less about his crimes and more about keeping Wade - who was one of the most radical politicians at the time, favoring favoring women's suffrage, trade union rights, and equality for...

What if Andrew Johnson had stronger sympathies with African-Americans? Would Reconstruction have been more successful? Would he be remembered in a better light?

What if the fates of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson had been reversed? That is to say, what if Lincoln somehow survived Booth's attempt on his life, while Atzerodt didn't get cold feet and managed to successfully kill Johnson?

Title, what if during Lincoln's murder and attempted killings of Seward and Johnson, Johnson also dies? What happens next? Does Seward become president?

History tells us that on 4-14-1865 the 16th president of the United States was shot in the back of his head. He would later die due to his injury on 4-15-1865. But what if he wasn't the only one set to die that dark day in April. What if Andrew Johnson and William H Seward had also lost their...

So Booth somehow misses and is wrestled down to the ground by good ol’ Abe but Andrew Johnson is shot and killed by George Atzerodt while Seward survives his assassination attempt and Lewis Powell escapes capture. So with all that being said and done, what happens next? Who becomes the Vice...

Andrew Johnson is the only senator of the states that would secede to join the Confederacy that did not resign to join the Confederates. What if Andrew Johnson was more loyal to his state than to the union and he decided to join the Confederacy? How would Andrew Johnson not being president...

What if the Radicals get the one vote they need to impeach Johnson? How would Reconstruction be planned and implemented? What would be the effects to the parties? And how would both North and South be affected?

So, in 1868, the deeply unpopular and recently impeached President Andrew Johnson tried to attain the Democratic nomination. That year's convention was remarkably entertaining, with the prospective nominee, Horatio Seymour of New York repeatedly refusing motions to nominate him. So, what if...