American Questions 16

     As I prepare to write a post concerning American history & culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further.

Abraham Lincoln - Andrew Johnson

(1861 - 1869)

• A common defense for Lincoln is that he was a dictator but a good dictator. But he left all the structure and customs of a dictatorship. Is there such a thing as a good dictator?

  
  

• How did President Johnson affect radical reconstruction when he vetoed the strengthening of some Bills? Was this a change in the right direction after the Civil War?

  
  

• How did the purchase of Alaska from Russia affect the U.S. beyond the claim of a 37th territory (later 49th star to the flag?)

  
  

• How did Lincoln's presidency affect how Johnson conducted his term?