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Aberham linclion
January 1, 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect.
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military wins the war. and jumpstarting his planning for peace,
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South even though the war was over -
Andrew Johnson
took office after linclion was assianted
The first American president to be impeached, he was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.
his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of elections to re-form their civil governments -
Ulysses S. Grant
President Grant destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871.
Grant won passage of the Fifteenth Amendment; giving constitutional protection for black voting rights.
Reformers praised Grant's Indian peace policy, which broke the deadlock on Indian appropriations in Congress -
Rutherford B. Hayes
He vetoed the Bland-Allison Act that would have put silver money into circulation because he believed that maintenance of the gold standard was essential to economy. His policy toward Western Indians anticipated the program of the Dawes Act of 1887.n 1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the most owckward elections in national history. He lost the popular but he won the elcetion -
James A. Garfield
Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, resident Garfield advocated a bi-metal monetary system, agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African-Americans. e proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, -
Chester A. Arthur
Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, he ewas part of the cause of civil service reform,
enforcement of, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs Free Silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans., as a reformer his prestige was so strong that the reform wing of the Republican Party, called "Mugwumps. -
Benjamin Harrison
his introduced legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act,Civil service reform was a big issue following Harrison's election. Harrison had campaigned as a supporter of the merit system, as opposed to the spoils system M -
William McKinley
serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination on September 14, 1901.
McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. -
Theodore Roosevelt
his leadership of the Progressive Movement,
as an outdoorsman and naturalist, he promoted the conservation movement.
Roosevelt was the force behind the completion of the Panama Canal
