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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Friday Apr 14, 1865
Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., U.S.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, just days after the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox briefly lessened the tension over who would set the terms of peace. The radicals, while suspicious of the new president and his policies, believed, based upon his record, that Andrew Johnson would defer, or at least acquiesce to their hardline proposals.


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