Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth president of the United States.  President Johnson never attended school.  He met Eliza McCardle when he was about seventeen years and she taught him to read and write.  Later they were married.

Important events during President Johnson's administration were:

• Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured on May 10, 1865.

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified and slavery is abolished on December 18, 1865.

• A ship, The Great Eastern, left Valencia, Ireland, on July 13, 1866 laying cable across the Atlantic Ocean until it reached Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland landing the shore end on July 27th.  The first transatlantic telegraph cable linked the United States and Great Britain.

• Nebraska is admitted as the 37th state on March 1, 1867.

• The Territory of Alaska is bought for $7.2 million on March 30, 1867 from Russia.  This became known as Seward's Folly.  This was about two cents per acre.

• The House of Representatives began impeachment of President Johnson on February 24, 1868, because President Johnson had fired cabinet members without permission.

• President Johnson was acquitted on May 16, 1868 with a vote of 35 guilty and 19 not guilty.  They needed two-thirds vote to impeach him and they missed by one vote.

• The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 28, 1868.  It gave the right of citizenship to the slaves who were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment.

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Andrew Johnson was

• the second President to be born in North Carolina.

• the sixth President to live in a state he wasn't born in.

• the youngest President to get married.

• the first President to be impeached.

• the first President that didn't have a military or legal background.