A mid-term election after the president’s sixth year in office
Usually, there is always a major realignment with the opponent party winning most of the seats in congress. As a result president often try to push their legislation before this time to avoid the stalemate that come about as a result, and most president often use executive orders to pass through their policies and veto down policies they don't like.
The radical republicans with open arms invited Johnson but after they realized he was gonna follow in lincolns footsteps they turned on him. They mad it as hard as it could be to pass anything and they were going to have him impeached but he didn't get impeached because of one vote
The government created Reparations.
No it really doesn’t, throughout history minorities and other groups of people during the time have been harassed and killed. An example would be the trail of tears in America. Thousands of indigenous people were lead on a March of death and to this day we still don’t have justice for the dead.
The black ships were given this name because the vessels were black as they were older and black smoke would rise from the coal-fired steam engines of the American ships.
