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Presidents of Era
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President Abraham Lincoln
- Abolished slavery from the United States -Ended the Civil War -Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
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President Andrew Johnson
-Created new federal rights
-Signed the Civil Rights Bill
-Purchased Alaska from Russian Empire President Johnson's term ended March 4 1869 -
Ulysse S. Grant
-Signed the Amnesty Act of 1872
-Signed bills that promoted black voting rights
-Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 his term ended March 4 1877 -
Rutherford B. Hayes
-Signed the Domestic Act
-Signed the Bill Requirments for the Black Rights
-Passed the Bill Allowed Female Attorneys to Argue Cases Before the Supreme Court of the United States His term ended March 4 1881 -
James Garfeild
-He tried to reestablish the independance of the presidency.
-Started the work of Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
-He made a member of his cabient a supreme court judge his term ended September 19 1881 -
Chester A Arthur
-Signed the Tariff Act of 1883
-He let congress pass the Pendleton Act
-He signed the Edmunds Act that banned Bigamists and Polygamists from voting and holding office his term ended March 4 1885 -
Grover Cleveland
-Signed an Act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission
-Angered railroad investors by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by Government grant
-Passed a Bill in 1886 that would require the government to make unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then-deflating currency. his term ended March 4 1889 -
Benjimen Harrison
-Harrison passed the Sherman Antitrust Act
-Harrison passed the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act
-Harrison passed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act his term ended March 4 1893 -
Gover Cleveland
-Signed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
-Allowed McKinley Tariff to become law without his signature.
- Stoped the Pullman Strike his term ended March 4 1897 -
William McKinley
On June 16, 1897, 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.
