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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincon was inaugurated March 4,1861. Abraham Lincoln was president during the civil war. He also issued in September of 1862 the Emancipation Proclimation and the Gettysburg Address. He also passed the Homestead Act. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877. Ulysses signed legislation making work days eight hours for federal workers. Grant also signed the fifteenth amendment allowing blacks to vote. On June 25, 1876 The Battle of Little Bighorn Started. Ulysses got diagnosed with throat cancer in 1884 and he died July 23, 1885. -
James A. Garfield
James Garfield was the 20th president of the United States from March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881. Garfield got shot by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881. He only lived for eighty days after he got shot but he was no longler able to be president. In the short time he was in office he didnt get to do very many things. Chester A. Arthur took over Garfields position as president.Garfield died on September 19, 1881. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Hayes got into office on March 3, 1887. While Hayes was president the phonograph was invented and also the railroad strike got very violent. Also street lights replaced gas burnign lamps in 1879. Hayes died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, Ohio. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President iof the United States. He took office March 4, 1889. While Harrison was president six states were admitted to the union: North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming. During Harrisons presidency the enconomy was worsening rapidly. Also while he was presidnet the Sherman Antitrust Act came into effect. -
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland came into office on March 4, 1893. He was the 22nd and 24th president. He is the only president to serve two non consecutive terms. Grover Cleveland was a democrat. The statue of Liberty was dedicated to cleveland in 1887. When Cleveland was president the Department of Labor was established. Utah joined the Union as the 45th state in 1896. -
William McKinley
McKinley was the 25th president of the United States from March 4, 1897 to September 14, 1901. McKinley made himself available to the public every morning. Mckinley died on September 16, 1901. He got shot inside Temple of Music and got gangreen from the wounds. Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley. Czolgosz had the gun hidden under a handkerchief and shot McKinley in the abdomen two times but only one hit him. The other bullet hit off of a button. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt took over William McKinleys presidency after he was assassinated.Roosevelt also won the 1904 election. Roosevelt passed the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act. Roosevelt got shot but did not die. He was shoit in the ribcage while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They wouldn't take it out becasue they thought it would be safer to leave it in then take it out. He died in 1909. -
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909-1913. His goal was to accomplish as much as he can with very little noise.Taft died March 4, 1913. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow wilson was the 28th president of the United States. Wilson implemented his "new freedom" pledges of anittrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in currency and banking matters in his early part of presidency. He had a very accomplishing presidency. he died on March 4, 1921.
