Andrew Johnson

American Presidents

Int – Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

In this lesson, students read a short biography about the 17th president of the United States. Students review vocabulary and discuss impeachment and Reconstruction (the rebuilding of the South following the Civil War).

This lesson mentions white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan. Teacher discretion is advised.

Focus

academic
reading
writing
interpretive

Vocabulary

apprentice
prosperous
alderman
legislature
secede
assassinate
in ruins
soft
radical
supremacist
veto
impeach
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