CLEP US History II

Answer: A - Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, was the first president in American history to be impeached. In 1867, the House of Representatives charged Johnson with 11 articles of impeachment; he was later spared a conviction in the Senate by one vote. Bill Clinton is the only other president in American history to have been impeached, though most historians agree that had Richard M. Nixon not resigned, he would have been impeached for his role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up.