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President Lincoln
Was elected to end slavery.
Wanted to defeat the Rebels in the Civil War.
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." -
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Presidents
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President Grant
He was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War,
Their logical candidate for President in 1868.
helped beat the confeds. to be ranked General -
President Hayes
He fought in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and rose to the rank of brevet major general.
Hayes insisted that his appointments must be made on merit, not political considerations.
Hayes pledged protection of the rights of Negroes in the South, but at the same time advocated the restoration of "wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government." -
President Garfield
Fought in the Civil War qwith the Union.
Was aganist slavery his Campian slogn was "Antislavery"
Also was the second of four Presidents Killed -
President Arthur
Honorable in his personal life and his public career, Arthur nevertheless was a firm believer in the spoils system when it was coming under vehement attack from reformers.
During his brief tenure as Vice President, Arthur stood firmly beside Conkling in his patronage struggle against President Garfield
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President Cleveland
Cleveland was elected twice once in 1885 an agin in 1889
Cleveland is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
Since Cleveland was the sole supporter of his family during the Civil War, he paid a substitute to take his place -
President Mckinley
When McKinley became President, the depression of 1893 had almost run its course and with it the extreme agitation over silver.
He was President during a 100 day war against the Spanish.
he called Congress into special session to enact the highest tariff in history. -
President Taft
But Taft much preferred law to politics
Taft disliked the campaign--"one of the most uncomfortable four months of my life."
Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates. -
President Wilson
He was a Presbyterian
During Wilson's presidency the government were mostly segregated. African Americans were never made to be a boss over white people -
President Coolidge
By the light of a kerosene lamp, his father, who was a notary public, administered the oath of office as Coolidge placed his hand on the family Bible.
But no President was kinder in permitting himself to be photographed in Indian war bonnets or cowboy dress.
Coolidge was both the most negative and remote of Presidents, and the most accessible.
