liz sorell Andrew Johnson

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by Elizabeth Sorell1 view·Updated Jan 14, 2022
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  1. My president was Andrew Johnson the 17th president
  2. and during the start of his presidency,
  3. he had the 36 star flag.
  4. Andrew was born on December 29, 1808. He grew up in Raleigh North Carolina.
  5. His father Jacob Johnson was a hotel porter and a big janitor
  6. had tragically died trying to save two of his employers from drowning
  7. When Andrew was only three years old,
  8. his mother worked as a weaver and a spinner
  9. to provide for him and his older brother William.
  10. When he turned 14,
  11. him and his brother became an apprentice at a
  12. local tailor shortly after they had ran away.
  13. Two years later they came back to
  14. study but Andrew never really understood anything.
  15. Later on he met this girl named Eliza.
  16. She had worked in a shop and would read to him and teach him.
  17. She basically treated him.
  18. They ended up getting married by 18 34.
  19. He had gotten so interested in politics,
  20. he was on the democratic side and had given speeches, his popular built up.
  21. So much eventually he was in the legislator, legislators lower house,
  22. shortly after he had gotten to serve two terms as governor of Tennessee.
  23. From 18 53 to 18 57 when the civil war broke out, he served
  24. first term U. S. Senator
  25. When Lincoln got elected,
  26. Andrew had been one of his greatest
  27. supporters and eventually became vice president.
  28. He was vice president for only 42 days before
  29. Lincoln had been assassinated shortly after making Andrew President.
  30. This is Andrew as governor of Tennessee.
  31. Andrew had many goals and his biggest goal was to have
  32. the southern states re admitted into the union and doing that.
  33. He always was trying to convince them.
  34. Andrew did not even attempt to meet the needs of formerly enslaved people,
  35. such as gaining land voting rights or equal protection of the law.
  36. Andrew had lots of problems with the Congress and although
  37. Congress planned to be a big part in Reconstruction,
  38. Andrew believes they had no place in Reconstruction and
  39. had decided to destroy the plan and it worked,
  40. he was highly against giving african americans full citizenship.
  41. So when a bill passed,
  42. When I was a bill that he had vetoed,
  43. got override it by the Senate to give African Americans full citizenship,
  44. he was highly upset when the tenure of Office Act was passed by Congress in 1867,
  45. preventing the president from firing any official appointed by the Senate.
  46. He chose to ignore that and fired Edwin M.
  47. Stanton the Secretary of War in the
  48. anti faced impeachment upon 11 separate charges.
  49. This is Andrew getting a page for 11 different charges.
  50. He had left office in 18 69 but had gotten reelected as a Senate in 18 75.
  51. A few months later,
  52. he had died because of a stroke on july 31st 18 75 and
  53. Elizabethtown Tennessee some of his accomplishments
  54. that he was remembered by was that
  55. he had re established government in the south after the civil war and
  56. pushed purchased Alaska from Russia in 18 67 for his 7.2 million.
  57. He was one of the three presidents to be impeached.
  58. He had five Children and he was president from april 15th, 18 65 to March 4th, 18 69.
  59. He was remembered partly for the nickname the Tennessee taylor also,
  60. Andrew had led the indian removal act and
  61. most of the westward expansion and 12 tiers.
  62. This is Andrew johnson's burial burial site
  63. and this is my timeline
  64. On December 29, 1808. Andrew, Johnson was born
  65. On January 4, 1812. His father had died from drowning when he had turned 14.
  66. He and his brother worked as an apprentice at a local tailor.
  67. On May 17, 1827, Eliza and Andrew got married.
  68. He became the governor of Tennessee in 1853
  69. when the civil war broke out in
  70. Broke out. He became us senator in 1857.
  71. He was vice president for only 42 days on March three,
  72. before coming President
  73. When the law was passed in 1867, he chose to ignore it and fired Edwin M.
  74. Stanton, the Secretary of War.
  75. He faced impeachment upon 11 separate charges.
  76. He had died because of a stroke on July 31, 1875 in Elizabethtown Tennessee