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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an very important president because he was the preident during the Civil War. Lincoln freed all the slaves with the Emancipation Proclaimation. He also brought the split countries back together. He was assasinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson took the presidency after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated. He was impeached but not convicted. Radical Republicans were trying to reconstruct the United States after the Civil War but Johnson was not cooperating. He was doing nothing to help the Reconstruction and was actually slowing the process. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant's first term was marred with scandal. There was rumor of him accepting to sell gold to the treasury to raise the price of gold. During the second term the corruption contined. Until he was finally out of office in 1877. -
William McKinley
Willliam McKinley won the presidential election of 1896 against William Jennings Bryan. He was Ohio's governor before he became president. His election ended the Populist Party's power. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt went into office with his "Square Deal" slogan. He felt that every man should have a square deal. He encoursged srbitration to solve some of the problems her faced like the United Mine Workers Strike. He was all for trustbusting. He helped to regulated the food and rug business. He also created practices that helped to protect the environment. -
William H. Taft
William Taft angered progressivists with the Payne-Aldrich Tariff which raised the tax on consumer goods. He angered Theodore Roosevelt who recommended Taft for the Republican ticket. Taft was undoing all of the good that Roosevelt had done during his presidency. This caused the Republican Party to split, thus the reason the next preident elected was a Democrat. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I. He also was the president at the time when women's suffrage became very popular. He helped to give the women a right to vote in 1920 by the Nineteenth Amendment. He served two terms as president. -
Warren G. Harding
While Warren Harding was friendly and presidental he was not as smart as past presidents such as Woodrow Wilson. He was pro-business and promised tax revision. His running made was Calvin Coolidge. -
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding died in office. He fired many of the people invovled in the Harding scandals. Cooldige was even more pro-business than Harding. He cut taxes trying to increse the contries economic prosperity. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover ran on the Republican ticket in the election of 1928. He won against Alfred Smith who was a Catholic during a time when people did not want someone the same religion ass the Pope in office. Hoover won with a 58% popular vote.
