At this very difficult time, Lincoln's Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President. Johnson is a former slaveholder and wartime governor of Tennessee, a loyal unionist Democrat who was put on the ticket to broaden the appeal of the Republican Party. As members of Congress soon learn, he is a much less skilled politician than Lincoln. He issues a proclamation of amnesty which allows the elite of the south to apply to him directly for an official pardon, bringing thousands of ex-Confederate general and politicians into national government through this process. He clashes with the Republican Congress over the restoration of former confederate states, and suffers substantial losses in the mid-year elections of 1866.

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