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Abraham Lincoln
He saved the Union and freed the slaves. In his Gettysburg Address, he defined the Civil War as a rededication to the ideals set in the Declaration of Independence. After his assination President Andrew Jackson took office. -
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He saved the Union and freed the slaves. In his Gettysburg Address, he defined the Civil War as a rededication to the ideals set in the Declaration of Independence. After his assination President Andrew Jackson took office. -
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The Civil War ended in April of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford theatre in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, and President Andrew Johnson takes office from 1869 to 1877. In scientific news in 1865 Gregory Johann Mendel formulated his theories genetics on pea pods, but most of his research was ignored. In political new Andrew Johnson tries to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Andrew Johnson becomes the first president of the United States of America to e -
Andrew Johnson
bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars ($4.42 cents an km squared) -
Ulyess S. Grant
Former Secretary of War in 1869, appointed by Andrew Jackson. Signed the Amnesty Act of 1872, Signed bills that Promoting Black Voting Rights, Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Passed the Inflation Bill on April 14, 1874. Also signed the Treaty of Washington for settling the Alabama Claims dispute between Britain and the United States by International Arbitration. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
He served in the U.S. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a Republican. Issued an Executive order that Forbade Federal office holders from taking part in party politics and protected them from receiving party contributions, signed the Domestic Act, signed the Bill Requirement for Black rights. Passed the Bill Allowed Female Attorneys to Argue Cases Before the Supreme Court of the United States. -
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The Civil War ended in April of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford theatre in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, and President Andrew Johnson takes office from 1869 to 1877. In scientific news in 1865 Gregory Johann Mendel formulated his theories genetics on pea pods, but most of his research was ignored. In political new Andrew Johnson tries to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, -
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield decided whether mail routes were being awarded fraudulently with tax money, but died 11 weeks into office. He served as the Quartermaster General during the American Civil War. He was also the vice-president during the tenure of James Garfield. -
Chester A. Arthur
The cabinet of Chester never had a vice-president; Chester Arthur passed the reforms and acts such as Chinese Exclusion Act, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act and Civil Rights Act. -
Grover Cleveland
He signed an act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission. Also, passing a bill in 1886 that would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then-deflating currency. -
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Interstate Commerce commission and the Dawes Act was passed in 1887. In 1888, the Hatch Act and the geographic society founded, in 1889 Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president. In 1890 Jacob Riis published “How the other half lives”. In 1893 “The panic of 1893” broke out and economic depression set in, until The Great Depression 1893 was the worst, economic down fall. The Pull Man Strike happened in 1894, in Pullman, Illinois going against The Pullman Car Company for lower wages given. -
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison passed the Sherman anti-trust act of 1894, he was also passed acts to help the disabled and their dependents by pension act. He quickly removed all traffic from imported sugar in the United States. -
William McKinley
He declared war on Spain. In less than four months the US won! The US gained control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Cuba gained independence. -
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In 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Cuban harbor of Havana, after which the Spanish American War began, and ended ten weeks later with the Treaty of Paris giving the United States Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines along with Guam. In 1898 was an act of Congress called the Newlands Resolution annexed The Republic of Hawaii. In 1900 the US estimates that it population exceeded 75 million people. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Made Meat Inspection Act, passed Food and Drugs Act, Creates U.S. Forest Service help solve the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty, and the Alaskan boundary dispute resolved. -
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In 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Cuban harbor of Havana, after which the Spanish American War began, and ended ten weeks later with the Treaty of Paris giving the United States Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines along with Guam. In 1898 was an act of Congress called the Newlands Resolution annexed The Republic of Hawaii. In 1900 the US estimates that it population exceeded 75 million people. -
William Howard Taft
President Taft signed a law to make New Mexico and Arizona states since they were territories. He also signed a law to let the state choose they’re own senators. -
Woodrow Wilson
He passed the Federal Reserve Act, Antitrust legislation that established the Federal Trade Commission, and also signed law prohibiting child labor. -
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Start of the 1920 Jazz music was very influential part of the everyday society of the everyday man. Men were coming back from the prier conflict in Europe, and the economic conditions looked very good for the US. Many African American moved up into the Northeast part of the United States because of southern racism -
Warren G. Harding
Signed a series of bills/amendments which he pushed to Congress too making them into law that regulates the farming industry and he also supported anti-lynching movement. Died from congestive heart failure in 1923 did not complete presidency, rumors say he was poisoned. -
Calvin Coolidge
First Inaugural Address first to be broadcast on radio passed the Immigration Act. Beside that there were no major domestic events worth noting during Coolidge's presidency. The public was getting over government corruption after scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal and the Elk Hills scandal. -
Herbert Hoover
Served one term in office ran against Allan E. Smith for the republican presidency. President Hoover served office only 8 months before the stock market’s collapse. Hoover wanted the private sector of the economy to handle the crash he didn’t want the government to get involved, so he openly spoke out against the New Deals act. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He motivated the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 and the economic crash of the stock market two years earlier. He took the country into World War 2 but died right into his 4th term in April 12, 1945. The only President allowed more then 2 terms ever. -
Harry S. Truman
Finished World War 2, President Truman was the one who decided to drop the nuclear bomb on Japan in 1945. He was also very involved in the Manhattan Project as vice President under FDR. Was the first president in the Cold War against the communist parties of the world. Nobody ever informed him of the Manhattan Project while serving under Roosevelt. He sends the first US troops to South Korea in 1950.
