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President 1: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War. He began the Emancipation Proclamation, which led to the end of slavery. Abraham Lincoln wrote a series of famous letters including the letters to Grace Bedell, and Horace Greeley. -
Ulysses S. Grant
He played a highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the civil war. He kept a continuous process of Reconstruction. Also during Grant's administration, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Post Office Department, and the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General were instituted and organized. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes ended Reconstruction, he wanted to withdraw federal occupations with the south. Hayes fought with Congress in the fight to reform the system, they refused to help him, but it opened a path for later Presidents to make civil service reforms. -
James A. Garfield
James attempted to reestablish the Independance of the Presidency, He started the work of Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Hefinally signed it on January 16, 1883, -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland signed an Act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission. He angered railroad investors by ordering an investigation of western lands that was held by Government grant. He also passed a Bill in 1886 that would require the government to coin unlimited amounts of silver, inflating the then deflating currency. -
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison passed the Sherman Antitrust Act. He passed the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act and passed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The tariff was removed from imported raw sugar, and sugar growers in the United States. -
William McKinley
On June 16, 1897, William McKinley signed annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. In Civil Service administration, McKinley reformed the system to make it more flexible in critical areas. He also established the Gold Standard Act where by the U.S. was officially placed on the gold standard. -
William Taft
Strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission
Taft improved the performance of the postal service. He
Sought to further the economic development of undeveloped nations in Latin America and Asia through the method "Dollar Diplomacy." He accomplished trust-bust. -
Woodrow Wilson
He established the Passage Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Wilson signed the Adamson Act. Wilson also took America into World War I as a war to make "the world safe for democracy". -
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Harding signed a series of bills and amendments passed by Congress into law. These regulated the farm industry. He
Supported anti-lynching movement.
