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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln issued the emacipation procolomation this freed most slaves. He also gave the famous gettysburg address speech. Lincoln was orginaillly from Illionois. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson passed the 13th and 14th amendment while in office. He also vetoed many bills dealing with the south and slaves. Johnson purchased the seaward folly. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses was a Republican he was out of office in 1877. He led our government much like the army. Grant did not believe in reconstruction. His vice President was Henry Wilson. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield was the 20th president. He was a Republican from ohio. he was in office for not even a year. Though he was not in office long he was said as to have "paved the way for civil service reform". Garfield as being only in 6 months before his assatination delt with partone issues and the one main on being the mail scandal. -
William McKinley
He was pressured into the war if spain by the press when he was president. he was shot in 1901 by an assain and died 8 days after due to the wounds he suffered. His tariff of 1880 estalished substanstially higher tariff rates in imported goods in or to protect business and management. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore was the 26th president. He was a Republican. He left office in 1909. Roosevelt became known as Trust Buster this meaning he made the great railroad combination break apart in to two in the Northwest -
WIlliam Howard Taft
Taft was orginally from ohio. The vice president at the time of his presidency was James. S. Sherman. William taft ephamzied on trust busting and civil service reform. -
Woodrow Wilson
wilson tried to keep america out of the war and he created the league of nations. He passed the Clayton anti trust act this helped labor rights. Wilson also passed the Federal Reserve act. -
Warren G. Harding
Harding created the first Bureau of budget. Harding had sold oil reserves to teapot dome one of the many scandals he had during his presidency. alough he did speak out on the civil rights. -
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin passed the immgration act of 1924 which cut the number of immigrants allowed to come to the US. He cut the taxes the were imposed during the war time. He agreed with the Kellog-brian pact which was a pact of countries who felt that war was not the answer to solve disputes.
