The 17th president of the United States, the president who succeeded Lincoln after his assassination. Andrew Johnson is often considered to be one of the worst American presidents, mainly because of his overly laid back treatment of the South which had just
lost the Civil War, his lack of concern about now freedman slaves that had no place to
work or go due to discrimination in
society, and his direct defiance of
Congress. Johnson tried to sabotage Lincoln'
s reconstruction plans and he went to war with Congress until he was eventually impeached, just barely evading removal from office. Johnson was a white supremacist and is mutually agreed by historians to have been a very poor leader.