-
Abraham Lincoln
Helped the Union win the Civil War. Helped free the slaves. Gave many speeches to make life better for everyone. -
Period: to
Presidents
-
Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War Hero. Vetoes the Private Releif Bill. Mississipi is remitted into the Union. -
James A Garfeild
Civil War hero. Initiate reform of the post office Departent. Did not favor abolition. -
William McKinley
First shipment of gold found in Alaska. In Cuba pro- Spanish groups riot. A letter publish by Spanish minister published in the New York Journal. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Congress extends the Chineese exclusion Act. Coal Miner strikes begin in Pennsylvania. Sighns the Newlands Reclamation Act. -
William Howard Taft
Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole. sighns the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. Senate passes a resolution calling for the sixteenth amendment. -
Woodrow Wilson
Appears before congress about revising tariffs. John D. Rockefeller donates $100,000,000 to begin the Rockefeller Foundation. Seventeenth Amendment is enacted. -
Warren G. Harding
sighns the Emergency Quota Act. Harding and Congress enable the Emergency Tariff Act. Sighns the Budget and Accounting Act. -
Calvin Coolidge
Congress passes a new immigration law. Political parties start holding conventions to vote their canidate for President and Vice President. Wins re elcetion easily with 382 electoral votes. -
Herbert Hoover
The first annual Academy Awards are presented. The U.S
Supreme Court upholds the use of the pocket veto by the President. signhs the Agricultural Marketing Act.
