Presidents Timeline

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  • Restoration

    Restoration to Andrew Johnson meant restoring loyalty to the union and abolishing slavery.
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    Andrew Johnson (Democrat)

    Democrat

  • 13th Amendment

    This amendment outlawed slavery.

  • First Civil Rights Act

    Declared African American's to be citizens of the U.S.

  • Tenure of Office Act 1867

    Kept the president from firing any cabinet member.

  • Command of Army Act 1867

    Forced the president to issue army orders through the army general.

  • Sewards Folly

    The purchase of Alaska by Seward even though it was covered in ice.

  • Johnson's Impeachment and Trial

    Johnson fired a cabinet member and therefore broke the Tenure of Office Act but he wasn't convicted.

  • 14th Amendment

    Offered the first constitutional meaning for citizenship and gave citizenship to certain people that were born in the U.S.
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    Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)

  • 15th Amendment

    Forbade the states/governemtn to keep any citizen from voting.
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    Enforcement Acts

    Designed to protect black voters but for the first two times the acts didn't work.

  • Alabama Claims

    American claims that Britain had violated the neutrality act by aiding the confederates during the Civil War.

  • Credit Mobiler Scandal

    Some of Grant's administration had excepted a bribe so as to not investigate fraudulent contracts with the Credit Mobiler.

  • Panic of 1873

    A leading investment bank failed and the government issued more paper currency increasing the inflation of currency.

  • Crime of '73

    Embraced the gold act and lessened the value of silver.

  • Specie Reusmption Act

    Deemed after a certain date the greenback dollars would be redeemed for gold.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Guarenteed African Americans equal treatment.

  • Election of 1876

    Grant wasn't allowed to run again because of all the scandals that occured during his presidency.

  • Compromise of 1877

    This compromise allowed Hayes to be president but also ended the Reconstruction era for the South and forced the troops stationed there to leave.
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    Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)

  • 1880 civil rights cases

    The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th amendment only kept the government from discrimination.

  • Stalwarts

    Favored machine politics.

  • Half-Breeds

    Favored civil service reforms.
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    James Garfield (Republican)

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    Chestur A. Arthur (Republican)

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Stopped the immigration of Chinese to America.

  • Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

    Government officials should be chosen by competitive exams instead of conections.
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    Grover Cleveland (Democrat)

  • Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois

    Led to the interstate commerce act that only the federal government had control over.

  • Haymarket Square

    Strikers threw dynamite at cops and some were arrested and convicted for the act.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Only allowed the federal government to control interstate commerce.

  • Dawes Act

    Divided up indian tribe land.
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    Benjamin Harrison (Republican)

  • McKinley Tariff

    Raised duty on imports to almost 50%.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Prohibited anticompetitve businesses and regulated monopolies.

  • Homestead Strike

    Stirke against a steel factory which eventually led to presidential and federal involvement.

  • Populist Party/Omaha Platform

    Started the Populist Party.

  • Panic of 1893

    Caused by the Collapse of railroads and led to a series of bank failures.
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    Grover Cleveland (Democrat)

  • Coxey's Army

    Coxey and a group of strikers marched to Washington D.C but were arrested there.

  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman provided housing but did not reduce the cost of housing when lowering the wages of workers.

  • Wilson Gorman Tariff

    Lowered United States tariff rates.

  • Cross of Gold Speech

    Given by William Jennings Bryan, this speech moved many people away from the gold standard and gained the canadicy for president for Bryan.

  • Dingley Tariff

    Raised tariff rates and counteracted the Wilson Gorman tariff act.
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    William McKinley (Republican)

  • Annexation of Hawaii

    Added Hawaii to the United States and allowed great trade for sugar to occur.

  • Spanish American War

    War started because the Spanish were treating the spanish citizens of Cuba and other Spanish territories poorly and the U.S intervened. Somewhat easy victory for the U.S.

  • Boxer Rebellion

    Led to support for Open Door policy which was previously denied.

  • Sinking of the Maine

    Started the Spanish American War because the U.S thought that Spain had sunk the ship when actually there was probably just an engine failure.

  • Hayes Open Door notes

    The U.S wanted to acess China but didn't want any specieal advantages.

  • Debate over the Philipines

    Some wanted to annex the Philipines while others believed it was immoral to annex the Philipines and that they should be able to govern themselves.

  • Gold standard act of 1900

    The U.S finally decided they would be backed by the gold standard and not the silver standard.

  • His Assassination

    An anarchist who lost his job during the panic of 1893 assassinated McKingley.
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    Theodore Rosevelt (Republican)

  • United Mine Workers Strike

    Roosevelt not only asked the Corporation their side of the story of the strike but also asked the workers side of the story and made negotiations.

  • National Reclamation or Newlands Act

    Provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West.

  • Elkins Act

    Amended the interstate commerce act and allowed heavy fines to be placed on railroads

  • The "Square Deal"

    For his first term he was only concerned with reelection so he swayed his party and progressives as well.

  • Hepburn Act

    Tried to give the government the ability to regulate but was too cautious and did not satisfy progressivists.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Attempted to stop the sale of dangerous or ineffective medicines.

  • Hetch Hetchy Controversy and the SF Quake of 1906

    Many naturalists were concerned about building a dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley but after the 1906 quake many citizens of San Francisco advocated the construction of the dam.

  • Meat Inspection Act

    Helped stop diseases from spreading within meat.

  • Panic of 1907

    Rosevelt was blamed for the panic and he aquired the aid of J.P. Morgan, the major steel industry owner, to escape the panic.

  • Payne Aldrich Tariff

    Taft tried to appease the Progressivists but this tariff was largely ineffective and after creating this tariff many progressivists believed Taft was too passive.

  • Pinchot-Ballinger Dispute

    Pinchot accused Ballinger, with the help of Glavis, that he had turned over a public coal mine to a private owner for profit. When Taft declared the accusations to be groundless he also fired Glavis greatly angering Pinchot and others who supported Pinchot.
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    William Howard Taft (Republican)

  • Mann-Elkins Act

    Attempted to strengthen regulatory control of the governement over the railroads.

  • Roosevelt's New Nationalism

    Mainly this new nationalism involved the regulation of monopolies and corporations but alse of workers, child labor, and compensation for industrial accidents.

  • Est. Federal Children's Bureau

    Created a bureau to investigate the welfare of children.

  • Election of 1912

    La Follette the Democratic ran aginst Taft but his candidacy stumbled and so Rosovelt ran against Taft at first as a Republican candidate. When the republicans chose Taft over him he created the Progressive party and ran for president under that party.

  • Wilson's New Freedom

    Beleived contrary to Rosevelt, that monopolies needed to be destroyed not regulated.

  • Bull Moose/Progressive Party

    Created by Rosevelt after the Republicans would not renominate him for president.

  • 16th amendment (Graduated income tax)

    Income tax creating the ability for competition among corporations.

  • 17th amendment

    Direct election of senators.

  • Est. Federal Reserve Board

    Regulated the federal reserves and were appointed by the president.
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    Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)

  • Underwood Simmons Tariff

    Lowered the basic tariff rate from 40% to 25%.

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Created a central banking system that could issue federal reserve notes or money.

  • Est. Federal Trade Commision

    Helped buissinesses determine if their buissiness would be acceptable to the government.

  • Smith-Lever Act

    Federal grants for agricultural extension education.

  • Louis Brandeis Appointed to Supreme Court

    Wilson appointed Brandeis so that he would look good to the Progressivists for the re-election because many progressivists were turning back to Rosevelts progressive party.

  • Keating Owen Act

    First federal law regulating child labor.

  • 18th amendment

    Prohibition of alcholic beverages.

  • 19th amendment

    Women gained the right to vote but not civil rights.