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-Created the Emancipation Proclamtion to try to prevent civil war
-Supported the Homestead act the allowed poor in the east to obtain land in the west.
-The famous speech the Gettysburg Address where Lincoln explained that the Civil War was being fought to see if our nation would servive. -
- Signned the Civil Rights Bill -Purchased Alaska from Russian Empire in 1867 -He was helpgul to the Southern states, and enforced less harsh treatment of the defeated rebels
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- Signned billes that let you have redemption of gold for U.S. paper dollars. -Treaty of London is created to resolve problems with Great Britain -The Whiskey Ring Scandal is exposed
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-Ended Reconstruction, and removed Federal Troops from the Former Confederacy.
-Attempted to build the Panama Canal, because he thought that Central American should be under US-control.
-Executive order that denined federal office holders from being in party politics and protected them from receiving party contributions. -
-Attempted to reestablish the Independance of the Presidency
-Started the work of Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
-Successfully led a brigade at Middle Creek, Kentucky against Confederate troops. -
-Signed the Tariff Act of 1883
-Signed the Edmunds Act that made it so Bigamists and Polygamists Couldn't vote or hold office.
-His Administration Enacted the first General Federal Immigration law. -
-Signed an Act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission
-Passed a Bill in 1886 that would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then-deflating currency.
-Geronimo surrenderes, ending Apache wars of New Mexico and Arizona. -
-Passed the Sherman Antitrust Act
-Passed the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act
-Tariff was removed from imported raw sugar, and sugar growers in the United States -
-Signed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
-Allowed McKinley Tariff to become law without his signature.
-Cleveland vetoes the first of several bills granting military pensions to Civil War Union veterans who had appealed to Congress after their claims were rejected by the Pensions Bureau. -
-William McKinley signed annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States
-In Civil Service administration, McKinley reformed the system to make it more flexible in critical areas
-Important act during McKinley's time was the Gold Standard Act where by the U.S. was officially placed on the gold standard. -
-Picked up the project and finished the Panama Canal.
-Was the first president to create National Parks.
-Passed the Antiquities Act in 1906. -
-Sought to further the economic development of undeveloped nations in Latin America and Asia through the method he termed "Dollar Diplomacy.
-2 new amendments were sent to the states for ratification under his term, 1) Federal Income Tax and 2) direct election of Senators
-The Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates. -
-1918 - Announced The Fourteen Points as guiding principles to the world after World War I. His allies adopted the "Treaty of Versailles.
-1914 - Antitrust legislation that established the Federal Trade Commission
-1916 - Signed law prohibiting child labor. -
-Signed a series of bills and amendments passed by Congress into law that regulated the farm industry
-Harding ended the First World War with treaties that built on the Treaty of Versailles.
-Supports anti-lynching movement -
-Coolidge signed the Radio Act of 1927, which assigned regulation of Radio to the newly created Federal Radio Commission.
-In 1924 Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced Income Tax rates and eliminated all Income Taxation for some Two million people.
-On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full U.S. citizenship to all American Indians, while permitting them to retain tribal land and cultural rights.
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