. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. Tlie Death of Lincoln produced no three hours afterwards, the Vice-President, AndrewJohnson, quietly assumed the duties of the Presidency. 346 EXCELSIOR HISTORY, 17. Johnsons Administration (1865-1869) isnoted for (1.) The Reconstruction^ of the States. (2.) The Adoption of the Thirteenth (1865) andFourteenth (1868) Amendments. (3.) The Freedmens Bureau, Civil Rights, andTenure-of-Office Bills (1867). (4) The Impeachment and Acquittal of the Pres-ident. (5.) Troubles with the Indians. (6.) The Purch
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. Tlie Death of Lincoln produced no three hours afterwards, the Vice-President, AndrewJohnson, quietly assumed the duties of the Presidency. 346 EXCELSIOR HISTORY, 17. Johnsons Administration (1865-1869) isnoted for (1.) The Reconstruction^ of the States. (2.) The Adoption of the Thirteenth (1865) andFourteenth (1868) Amendments. (3.) The Freedmens Bureau, Civil Rights, andTenure-of-Office Bills (1867). (4) The Impeachment and Acquittal of the Pres-ident. (5.) Troubles with the Indians. (6.) The Purchase of Alaska. (7.) A Treaty with China. 18. Recon-struction ofthe States.âIn May, 1865, Presi-dent Johnson is-sued a Prodama-tion of Amnestyand Pardon toall who had beenengaged in Seces-sion, except certainspecified claimed thatthe Seceded States,as soon as they hadcomplied with cer-tain conditions, should he fully restored to their positionin the Republic. They were required to rescind their ordi-nances of Secession, to declare void the Confederate war debt,. EECONCELIATION. JOHKSOKS ADMINISTRATION. 347 and to vote for an Amendment to the Constitution abolish-ing Slavery. 19. Reconstruction Policy of Congress.âOn the assembling of Congress, decided grounds were takenagainst the pohcj of the President. It was claimed thatCongress alone had power to prescribe tiie conditions for there-admission of the seceded States, and his proclamationand orders were treated as of no value. The Freedmen^sBureau, the Civil Rights, s^ndi the Tenure-of-Office bills werepassed over the Presidents veto. The Freedmens Bureau Bill provided for the establishment of adepartment of the National government for the care and protection ofthe freedmen, i. e., the emancipated slaves, and also of the destitutewhites at the South. The Civil Rights Bill guaranteed to the negroes the rights of citi-zenship. The Tenure-of-Office Bill made the consent of the Senate necessaryfor the removal by the Pre
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