Andrew Johnson Administration - The Johnson Administration Legacy
The Johnson Administration Legacy
When Andrew Johnson left the presidency in March 1869, the politics of Reconstruction still divided the country. Federal troops occupied the southern state capitals, and the occasional race riot erupted as African Americans (and their white supporters) tested the limits of freedom. In rural areas of the South unreported and unpunished assaults on blacks continued as white southerners demonstrated their intransigence to accepting blacks as political or legal equals. In the North, Midwest, and Far West the economy had rebounded from its immediate post-war dip, and industrialization increased its pace after being slowed by the demands of the war.
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