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The impeachment of president Andrew Johnson was due to

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He fired the secretary of war from the office

Step-by-step explanation:

First, Andrew Johnson was never impeached. He was tried for treason after he fired Edwin M. Stanton, the secretary of war, from office. He was extremely close to being impeached—just 1 vote short. Radical republicans attempted this because they disagreed with his reconstruction plan. Make sense?

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