OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON ANDREW JOHNSON 



Outline 



I. Early Years 



(1) Birth and parentage 



(2) Boyhood 



(a) Lack of education 



(b) Apprenticeship 



(3) Removal to Tennessee 



(4) Marriage 



II. Early Political Career 



(1) The "working-men's party" 



(2) As mayor 



(3) In the Tennessee legislature 



(4) In the House of Representatives 



(5) As governor of Tennessee 



(6) In the Senate 



(7) Attitude toward secession 



(8) Military governor of Tennessee 



(9) Elected Vice-President 



(a) Concession to War Democrats 



III. Administration 



(1) Reconstruction problems 



(a) Change in President's views 



1. Adoption of Lincoln's lenient 



policy 



2. Proclamation of amnesty 



(b) Attitude of Congress 



(c) Freedmen's Bureau Bill 



(d) The Civil Rights Bill 



(e) The Fourteenth Amendment 



(2) Quarrel between President and Con- 



(a) Tenure of Office Act 



(b) Command of army taken from 



President 



(c) Removal of Stanton 



(3) Impeachment 



(a) Charges 



(b) Results 



(4) Other events 



(a) Purchase of Alaska 



(b) Withdrawal of French army from 



Mexico 



(c) Atlantic Cable laid 



(d) Nebraska admitted to the Union 



(5) Election of 1868 



(a) Candidates 



(b) Issues 



(c) Results 



IV. Later Life 



(1) Election to Senate 



(2) Death and character 



Questions 



How many Southern Congressmen took the same attitude that Johnson did at 

 the outbreak of the War of Secession? 



What might have been the results for the Presidential office if Johnson had not 

 resisted the attacks of Congress? 



Why was he suggested as candidate for President in 1860? 



What was Johnson's attitude toward the Southern states after the war? How did 

 it compare with Lincoln's? 



What were Johnson's reasons for vetoing two important measures which Con- 

 gress was determined to put through? 



Why was Johnson's marriage of unusual significance? 



What was the cause of his changed views as to the South? 



What was his last important act as President? 



In what way did his ancestry and his early life resemble those of Lincoln? 



What was "Steward's Folly," and why was it so called? 



Why was it easier to communicate with England at the close of this administra- 

 tion than at the beginning? 



For what should Johnson be chiefly remembered? 



What speech of his caused him to be mobbed, hooted, and hanged in effigy? 



In what picturesque way did Johnson express his scorn for the lessening of 

 Presidential powers attempted by Congress? 



