To start with Johnson was out of sorts with Congress from the day he had taken office,
after the death of Lincoln. The role that Johnson played while in office was of his own beliefs
and wishes, he argued and vetoed almost all of the bills that congress passed during the
Reconstruction Act. He gave pardons to the south as the south was who he was in favor of. He
tried to make it so south was in charge and that they had the control over the blacks. He was not
in favor of the rights of the blacks, and no way shape or form did he want them to have the same
rights as the white man. He wishes were to go back to the ways things were before the
Reconstruction Act, and have the blacks for slaves again, and have no land, no voting rights, or
any source of freedom. Johnson had violated the Reconstruction Act, by not only challenging
Congress but also by dismissing officeholders who sympathized with the Radical
Reconstruction. Johnson furthermore then was countermanding the orders of the generals of the
southern military, in which included tranfering and replacing them with conservative Democrats.
Afterwards Congress passed a law to limit the presidential authority over the Reconstruction
matters, known as the Tenure of Office Act. Johnson then tried to disharge Secratry of War,
Edwin Stanton, which just added fuel to the fire with Congress which entered the role of
Johnson's impeachment. I do feel that he should of been covicted. I don't think that he should of
been able to get away with the actions that he took while in office. To me wrong doings deserve
consequences, and Johnson knowing that he was doing wrong, he made his own choices and
should of been convicted of them.