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Andrew Johnson Vocation

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Andrew Johnson was the 17th president. Andrew became the president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was president from 1865-1869, so he only accommodated one term. Jackson was archaic southern Jacksonian Democrat. Andrew Johnson was one of the most hapless of Presidents. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/andrewjohnson).

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in impecuniosity. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but absquatulated. He opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, espoused Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy.(https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/andrewjohnson). The year after he absquatulated he married Elize Mccardle, they had five children together. …show more content…

That same year, Andrew Jackson a fellow Democrat, became the seventh U.S. president. Like Jackson, Johnson considered himself as a prevalent man. He was resentful of opulent planters and favored states’ rights and populist …show more content…

Johnson, a vigorous adherent of the U.S. Constitution, believed it assured individuals the right to own slaves. Johnson left Congress in 1853 to become governor of Tennessee. He vacated the governorship in 1857 to take a seat in the U.S. Senate. During the 1850s, as the struggle over states’ rights and slavery in the territories further intensified and divided the North and South, Johnson perpetuated to believe in the right to own slaves. However, as some Southern bellwethers commenced calling for secession, he was an advocate for the Cumulation.(http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/andrew-johnson). In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. congressman from Illinois and member of the anti-slavery Republican Party, was elected America’s 16th president. On December 20 of that same year, slaveholding South Carolina seceded from the Amalgamation. Six more Southern states anon followed, and in February 1861, they composed the Confederate States of America (which would eventually include a total of 11 Southern states). Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and just over a month later, on April 12, the U.S. Civil War broke out when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. That June, Tennessee voters

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