USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Born in North Carolina in 1808, Andrew Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor as a teenager before running away in 1824. When he moved with his family to Greeneville, Tennessee in 1826, he worked as a tailor, where he would have been using tools like these shears.

Detailed explanation-2: -After Lincoln’s death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary charge against Johnson was that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act. Specifically, that he had acted to remove from office Edwin Stanton and to replace him with Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas as secretary of war ad interim.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most controversial uses of the presidential pardon occurred when President Andrew Johnson issued sweeping pardons to thousands of former Confederate officials and soldiers after the American Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865. The final surrender of all Confederate troops occurred on June 2, 1865.