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Abraham Lincoln
-abolished slavery
-modernized the economy
-preserved the Union -
Andrew Johnson
-restored the secceded states fron the Union
-implemented Presidential Restoration
-passed Black Codes -
Ulysses S. Grant
-led the Radical Republicans
-destroyed the Klu Klux Klan
-first president to establish Civil Service reforms -
Rutherford B. Hayes
-implemented modest civil service reforms
-vetoed the Bland-Allison Act
-Great Railroad Strike -
Chester A. Arthur
-signed the Pendleton Act into law
-abolsihed the excise taxes on everything except liquor
-signed Immigration Act of 1882 -
Grover Clevland
-only president to serve two consecutive terms
-leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats
-fought political corruption, patronage, and bossism -
Benjamin Harrison
-served the Union as a brigadier general in the XX Corps
-advocated for federal education funding and legislation to prtotect voting rights for African Americans
-only president to be from Indiana and to be a grandson of a former president -
William McKinley
-promoted the Dingley Tariff to protect manufactors and factory workers from foreign competition
-secured the pasage of the Gols Standard Act in 1900
-raised protective tariffs to promote American industry -
Theodore Roosevelt
-youngest president ever sworn into the office
-first of three presidents to win the Nobel Prize
-launched the Bull Moose Party that called for far-reaching progressive reforms -
Calvin Coolidge
