Andrew Johnson: The President Who Wasn’t Lincoln | 5-Minute Videos
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- Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. To take the reins of power at this tumultuous moment required a man of compassion, discernment, and discipline. Was Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, that man? Allen Guelzo of Princeton University has the answer.
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It was April 1865. The Civil War was finally over. An exhausted, bloodied nation breathed a deep sigh of relief…
Then, suddenly, shockingly, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, felled by an assassin’s bullet while watching a play.
To take the reins of power at this tumultuous moment required a great man, a man of compassion, discernment, and discipline. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s vice president, was not that man.
This is not to say he didn’t have virtues. He did. He just didn’t have the stuff it took to meet the moment.
Born into abject poverty on December 29, 1808, Johnson was apprenticed - “sold” would be more accurate - to a tailor at the age of 10. Legally bound to serve until he was 21, he ran away after five years. He eventually settled in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he set up his own tailor’s shop and prospered.
In 1834, he was elected mayor of Greeneville. From there, he climbed steadily up the political ladder; the state legislature in 1835, the US Congress in 1843, Governor in 1853, and the Senate in 1857. He was still serving as U.S. Senator for Tennessee in 1861 when the Civil War broke out.
Although Johnson was a Democrat and a slaveowner himself, when Tennessee left the Union to join the break-away Confederacy and defend legalized slavery, Johnson denounced his state’s secession on the floor of the Senate.
“I will not give up this Government,” he thundered in December 1860. “No; I intend to stand by it, and I entreat every man throughout the nation who is a patriot…to come forward, that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.”
After Union military forces occupied large parts of Tennessee in 1862, Lincoln tagged Johnson as the state’s provisional military governor. It was a shrewd move on the president’s part: it demonstrated to Southerners and Democrats that they were welcomed as full partners with Lincoln’s Republican party in restoring the Union.
Johnson himself joined hands with Lincoln’s policies by freeing his own slaves in 1863.
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Lincoln picking Johnson as a VP was definitely shrewd for his election, but tragic since Johnson was given the reigns after Lincoln's death. He did almost everything wrong to put the reunified nation back on track, even allowing the rise of the Klan. He will be forever remembered as one of our worst presidents.
agree, info regarding the agency REPUBLICAN LINCOLN set up that DEMOCRAT JOHNSON twice vetoed .... the Freedman’s Bureau was one of the most powerful instruments of Reconstruction. The Bureau was charged with overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom for 4 million freed slaves. In this process, the Freedmen’s Bureau became the principal expression and extension of federal authority in the defeated South. General Howard divided the ex-slave states, including the border slave states that had remained in the Union, into 10 districts, each headed by an assistant commissioner. The bureau’s work consisted chiefly of five kinds of activity-1) relief work for both blacks and whites in war-stricken areas; 2) regulation of black labor under the new conditions: 3) administration of justice in cases concerning the blacks: 4) management of abandoned and confiscated property: and, 5) support of education for blacks.
Charged with exercising control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from the rebel states its activities were myriad. It provided provisions, clothing and fuel to refugees, freedmen, and their wives and children; it assisted in reuniting black families; it supervised labor agreements between blacks and their former masters; it monitored state and local officials’ treatment of the former slaves; it established informal tribunals to settle disputes between whites and blacks and among African Americans themselves; it instituted clinics and hospitals for the former slaves; and it aided efforts to provide freed people education in the Civil War’s immediate aftermath. The agency distributed trainloads of food and clothing provided by the federal government to freed slaves and Southern white refugees. The Bureau built hospitals for the freed slaves and gave direct medical aid to more than 1 million of them. The greatest successes of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in the field of education. More than 1,000 African American schools were built and staffed with qualified instructors. Most of the major African American colleges in the United States were founded with the assistance of the bureau.
And the meanest president.
Dr. Guelzo?! Oh man, he was my western civ professor at Eastern College back in the day! Very cool! His class was haaaard and he reminded every one of Frasier Crane from tv lol!
Oh man he does remind me of Dr. Frazier Crane as well, especially his voice. That’s cool and I imagine he was a hard but a very good educator. You actually learn important information in his classes, it’s saddens me to say that so many needless university programs has taken money away from important classes. It’s happening not only at the university level but also in the school system starting at the sixth grade and I’m afraid it’s not fixable at this point. Glad my grown children who we’re so proud of did wonderful and have great jobs that they enjoy which is so important. Our granddaughters are homeschooled and are testing off the charts, with so much time for extracurricular activities ie: arts, tap or ballet dance, sports. Our grand son is due in about a month and I’m sure he’ll follow his sister and cousin. My older niece was recruited by an Ivy League University at age 15, again with remarkable scores which many other homeschooler’s are being recruited across the U.S.. Families are even getting together and hiring teachers that retired early or quit because of how the school system if failing children and not teaching actual important studies. Just hearing about it is horrible but the grades or lack of grades especially certain area’s or certain state’s is telling of a serious situation with the school system. These teachers are getting paid more and are actually getting to focus on teaching a serious curriculum and the children decide their extracurricular activities and it’s working beautifully. There’s bi-monthly meeting’s with parent’s of homeschooled children along with their different teachers or parents who have degree in different fields like engineering and anthropology that decided it was more important to take time off to make sure their children are properly educated. Private and Christian Academies are full to but parents ask many questions regarding the curriculum and have to approve Al the books. Civics is being taught again and they have access to nice and impressive libraries provided by anonymous donors, also the public libraries are also available. It’s just amazing how well all these children are doing regarding grades and the required testing that they’re just scoring off the charts. Some of these children have graduated from USC at 16 and one at Harvard at 20 after also graduating from USC at 13.
**Sorry for going on and on and please forgive all grammatical errors because I have (MS) so with my bad eyesight and cognitive problems when I’m tired my comments my be run on, or incoherent or not understandable. NO PITY. I’m grateful for the scientists and researchers have made tremendous strides regarding (MS) treatments and medications. I’m still able to walk with my cane or walker and a great diagnosis of a long life expectancy. With my big amazing family, my wonderful husband of 37 years I’m blessed and can’t complain I know it could always be worse. Thanks 🙏🏼 again for understanding my long and run on comments but I wanted to respond to your comment about the professor and I don’t comment to often anymore but I do enjoy it when I do.
@@kelleybutler9203 Wow, thank you for your reply, I enjoyed reading it. Yes, he was hard, but a thought-provoking teacher, and not the blowhard my other sociology professor, Tony Campolo, was. If I had to do it all over again, I wish my parents home-schooled me, but in all honesty, they were both teachers, so I wasn't going to NOT get an education somewhere :)
Makes me think of another VP who shouldn't take over.
Screeching Harpy Whore you mean. I agree.
Joe Biden, Obama's VP? Agreed.
I thought you were gonna say Kamala Harris 😂
Luckily Mike Pence never got the chance.
@@redblaze8700 but u take pensr over biden
Great history lesson. Thank you.
Let's remember our history so that we arent doomed to repeat it. God bless.
So…we could have allowed black people to vote right after the civil war…but one man stopped it. And he was a democrat. Shocking.
Democratic party should've been also abolished after slavery and the world would have been a little more peaceful.
@@LarryBonsonas nice as that would sound, thats unconstitutional and would have aet a bad precedent.
The fact y’all don’t know the parties flipped views in the 70s/80s is exactly why prageru isn’t a good educational tool
@@DarthMalevolence66no it's not. The American communist party was forced to disband and cease to exist. They went along with and just registered as democrats to work towards their original communist goals.
@@liamtrippi2749 So everyone in one party started thinking the opposite way and everyone in the other party coincidentally started thinking the opposite way at the same time about the same issue. That wouldn't seem to be really possible. Are you sure that's true? It sounds a little like propaganda to me.
That one guy in the senate is kicking himself from his grave for not convicting the guy to kick him out of office.
Interesting. Never said I was
Andrew Johnson is one of our worst Presidents
Best part of this video: The ejected cabinet member.
"Weeee"
ROFL!!!!! @@DarthMalevolence66
Yeah! PragerU baby!
I wonder if this is also on Rumble?
In Shakespearean lens, Andrew Johnson is basically American Iago
“Do you mock me?”
“I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a man!”
-Thomas Nast‘s Othello Political Cartoon
It bears remembering to be careful of what dolt is on the ticket as VP.
I would almost bet that this is not taught in most schools. Very sad.
Well done!😊
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@@SHARKVADERS you are talking to your mama!
All the other Presidents besides Lincoln: Am I joke to you?
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History runs like a wagon without wheels. Dragging to the end of the road.
It would be interesting to hear your reflection upon how Andrew Johnson is portrayed in _The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth_, by Finis Bates, published in 1907.
Sounds like the sort of a person that makes a wonderful sergeant, but a poor general.
VPs have almost never been a great choice apparently!!
Very cool.
3:00 What did you want him to be medicated with?
Being wasted off whiskey at that moment was probably still not the best option
@@DarthMalevolence66
What were the options back then?
Johnson, the only president of his time to not have time to grow a beard before he got into office
The first RINO perhaps?
nice
I'm not going to lie. I'm pleasantly surprised to see this video on this channel. The party names might be the only reasoning I think it was greenlit, I think a lot of people here think that the end of the civil war was a movement forward, this showing the contrary.
To clarify, the innactiion of then pres to rebuild and give the black pop a chance was a dropped ball for america
ya misidentified DEMOCRATS as America - - - The U.S. Congress under REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT LINCOLN established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands on March 3, 1865, as part of its plans for reconstructing the post-Civil War South. The program was to function for one year after the close of the war.DEMOCRAT KKK PARTY President Andrew Johnson vetoed new legislation extending the Bureau’s life and increasing its powers on Feb. 19, 1866. DEMOCRAT KKK ARTY President Johnson viewed the legislation as an unwarranted continuation of war powers in peacetime. The veto marked the beginning of the President’s long and unsuccessful fight with the Republican Congress over issues of Reconstruction. In slightly different form, the bill was passed over Johnson’s veto on July 16, 1866.
When will you be featuring Obama & Biden in your WORST PRESIDENT in HISTORY series?
They're going through all presidents, not just the worst
Right because Prager U has never criticized Obama or Biden.
Andrew Johnson's next, he had some slight effects.
Congress each would impeach, and so the country now elects...
Happy chicken swinging day prager!
what
18th, 25 September 2023
😂😂I was worried about students in Florida and Oklahoma, but... I should have known better. I didn't immediately see the angle.
What angle??
@@DarthMalevolence66 People see what they want to see, don't they... Darth?
@@THE_Dodge_Morningstar your broad statement has no facts, evidence or examples
DEMOCRAT Opposition to anti-lynching law
Segregationist senators Tom Connally, Walter F. George, Richard Russell, Jr., and Claude Pepper filibustering the Wagner-Van Nuys Act, an anti-lynching bill, in 1938; all four were liberal New Dealers.
Despite insistence by leftists that the DEMOCRAT opposition to civil rights legislation (including anti-lynching legislation) was exclusively from "conservative"/Southern Democrats, it's important to note that a 1937 anti-lynching bill passed the House with opposition from both the Southern bloc in addition to 15 Northern DEMOCRATS. Of those who voted on the legislation by party, it got 96% support from Republicans and only 62% from Democrats.
In late July 1937, Senate Democrats successfully tabled an anti-lynching effort (introduced by pro-civil rights DINO Royal S. Copeland) twice. On July 26, the Senate voted 41-34 to kill an anti-lynching amendment, with the "Yeas" including future Supreme Court justice Hugo Black and future Vice President Alben Barkley. Over a dozen Northern Democrats voted with the Southern bloc to kill the amendment. 61% of Democrats voted in favor of tabling.
Five days later, the majority of Senate Democrats (66% of them) voted yet again to kill the amendment in a 46-39 vote
Pretty much the Hoover of the 1800s
Hoover was a great manager but not necessarily a great President. FDR knew he would win, but did nothing to improve lives for Americans for another decade; the Depression could have been over much earlier if FDR actually listened to advisors, even Hoover. FDR was not the “great” President he’s made out to be. Let’s not forget forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW2 (including some of my relatives).
@@vinsgraphics Yes, America's recovery from the Great Depression was slower than any other part of the world.
@@vinsgraphics DEMOCRAT FDR supporter the KU KLUX KLAN - - - Klansman on the Court
In 1937 DEMOCRAT FDR appointed Alabama Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. Black was well known for his anti-Catholic viewpoints. In Korematsu v. the United States, Black voted to uphold President Roosevelt's mass arrests and incarceration of Japanese men, women, and children based on race.
President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. Theodore Bilbo "a real friend of liberal government."[106] Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."[107] In a 1938 filibuster against anti-lynching legislation, Bilbo said on the Senate floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of hell in the South” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.[108]
Franklin Roosevelt nominated James F. Byrnes to the Supreme Court and was confirmed by the Democrat Senate in 1941. The NAACP opposed his confirmation in a telegram to the White House:
“If Senator Byrnes at any time in his long public career failed to take a position inimical to the human and citizenship rights of 13 million American Negro citizens, close scrutiny of his record fails to reveal it.”
Democrat Theodore G. Bilbo was an extremely racist Democrat from Mississippi who blocked anti-lynching legislation and was an apologist for racial violence.
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for more than two decades, Byrnes personally blocked a Senate investigation of a South Carolina lynching and opposed federal anti-lynching legislation, insisting that “rape is responsible, directly and indirectly, for most of the lynching in America.” Byrnes later held the office of Secretary of State under President Harry Truman. He remained a vocal opponent of integration throughout his term as South Carolina governor from 1951 to 1955. In his inaugural address, Byrnes proclaimed,
“Whatever is necessary to continue the separation of the races in the schools of South Carolina is going to be done by the white people of the state. That is my ticket as a private citizen. It will be my ticket [as governor].”
A building and a professorship at the University of South Carolina bear his name, as do Byrnes Auditorium at Winthrop University, Byrnes Hall dormitory at Clemson University, and James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, South Carolina.
The segregationist Democrats, on the other hand, were for the most part eager supporters of the New Deal-provided it was administered in a way that would exclude African Americans from most of its benefits.
Tuskegee experiment during the New Deal.
The study was initially funded by the private Rosenwald Fund. However, The Fund ended its involvement due to lack of matching state funds, and the federal government under the DEMOCRAT 73rd Congress took over the funding. According to the 1995 Abstract to The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: biotechnology and the administrative state:
"The central issue of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was property: property in the body and intellectual property. Once removed from the body, tissue and body fluids were not legally the property of the Tuskegee subjects. Consequently, there was not a direct relationship between a patient and research that used his sera. The Public Health Service (PHS) was free to exercise its property right in Tuskegee sera to develop serologic tests for syphilis with commercial potential. To camouflage the true meaning, the PHS made a distinction between direct clinical studies and indirect studies of tissue and body fluids. This deception caused all reviews to date to limit their examination to documents labeled by the PHS as directly related to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. This excluded other information in the public domain. Despite the absence of a clinical protocol, this subterfuge led each to falsely conclude that the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment was a clinical study. Based on publications of indirect research using sera and cerebrospinal fluid, this article conceives a very history of the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment. Syphilis could only cultivate in living beings. As in slavery, the generative ability of the body made the Tuskegee subjects real property and gave untreated syphilis and the sera of the Tuskegee subjects immense commercial value. Published protocols exploited the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to invent and commercialize biotechnology for the applied science of syphilis serology.