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Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was the 16th presidnet and had many importances. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. He also saved the Union. He was assinated by John Wilks Booth on November 19, 1863. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S Grant was the 18th president.On occasion, sent in the military to protect African Americans from newly formed terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, which tried to prevent blacks from participating in society.During his second term, a depression in Europe spread to the United States, resulting in high unemployment. Scandals also diverted attention from the administration's efforts. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
When the Civil War began, Hayes offered his services to the state of Ohio. Governor William Dennison appointed him to the rank of major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He won the 1876 election only after the creation of a special commission to decide disputed electoral votes. Because of the tension surrounding his election, Hayes secretly took the oath of office on Saturday, March 3, 1877, in the Red Room of the White House. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of 9th President, William Henry Harrison.He was known as the 'Human Iceberg' because he was very formal.When the first electricity was installed in the White House in 1891, the Harrison family was afraid to touch the switches.Harrison once made 140 completely different speeches in 30 days. -
William McKinley
When McKinley became President, the depression of 1893 had almost run its course and with it the extreme agitation over silver. Deferring action on the money question, he called Congress into special session to enact the highest tariff in history. McKinley was assimated. -
Theodore Roosevelt
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war -
William Howard Taft
President Taft was the only ex-president to be a judge on the Supreme Court. He was appointed Chief Justice. He was the only president to head two branches of the federal government. Also, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he swore in Calvin Coolidge and Herber Hoover as U.S. Presidents. (Another first and only.) President Taft was the first president to play golf. Taft said he liked golf because "you cannot permit yourself to think of anything else" while you are playing it. -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. -
William G. Harding
Republicans in Congress easily got the President's signature on their bills. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration.By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise--"Less government in business and more business in government." -
Calvin Coolidge
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.
