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Presidents of The Era
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Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
After President Lincoln Died Vice President Andrew Jonson assumed the preidency.johnson was an old-fashioned democrat and one of the most unfortunate of the presidents. He was chosen as Lincoln's running mate in 1864 because of his pro-Union sympathies. -
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Grant was the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War. When he was elected, American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provied niether vigor nor reform. He to congress for direction. -
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
Hayes was the 19th president. As president he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution, Hayes was a reformer who began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted. -
Chester A. Aurther (1881-1885)
Aurther became president after President James A. Garfield was assassination. He struggled to overcome his beginging as a politician from the New York City Republican. -
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
Cleveland was the only president to leave the white house and come back another 4 year term. He was the onle Democrat elected to the presidecy in the era of Republican domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913. He was the leader of Pro-buiness who opposed high tariff. -
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
Harrison most ly remembered for economic legislation. He advocated, although unsuccessfully, for federal education funding and legislation to protect voting rights for African Americans. Harrison in addition to saw the admittance of six states into the Union. -
William McKinley (1897-1901)
While President McKinley was in office he was assassanation in September 1901. He lead the nation to victory of The Spanish-American War. MiKinleys presidency began a period of over a third of the century domanited by the Reppublican Party. -
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
Roosevelt become president after the assassination of President William MaKinley. During office Roosevelt was a progressive reformer who needed to move the dominated Repulican Party into Progressive camp. He had a Square Deal which domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
Wilson was the leader of the Preagressive Movement he served as President of Princeton University. At the begining Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reformers. -
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Harding said, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." He died of a heart attack during his presidency.
