Unit 1: Reconstruction

IMPEACHMENT!

First, read the following primary and secondary sources:

• p. 496-498 in the textbook
• Johnson impeachment article (handout)
• The United States Constitution Read Article II, Section IV
• Tenure of Office Act summary
• Johnson’s Cleveland Speech from his 1866 "swing around the circle" (American Spirit or here) Remember, the speech was delivered while he was probably drunk, and the asides are the words of hecklers yelling at him
• Senator Lyman Trumbull Defends Johnson (Spirit)
• Articles of Impeachment I, X, and XI from The History Place web site

Political Corruption

The Cartoons of Thomas Nast

http://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/thomasnast/bio.htm

http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/cat15.html

http://www.thomasnast.com/

http://thomasnastcartoons.com/

Other impeachment resources:

• Harpers' Weekly The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Constitutional Rights Foundation: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson; A Trial Account by Douglas O. Linder
• The History Place (includes articles of impeachment)
• Andrew Johnson Impeachment Information at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Images of the Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial
• An Essay: Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
• Andrew Johnson Impeachment and Reconstruction Simulation