to try to reunite the nation after the civil war? Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, attempted to reunite the nation after the Civil War by implementing a lenient Reconstruction policy. He pardoned most former Confederate leaders and allowed them to reclaim their political rights, and he vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills, which would have granted civil rights to African Americans. He also proposed a plan for readmitting the Confederate states to the Union, which was eventually rejected by Congress.
