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The Rise of Modern America

  THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

1861 - 1921

16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

    

1861-65

Civil War
  1863  Emancipation Proclamation

    

 

Gettysburg Address

    

 April 14, 1865

Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869

  February 1868 Impeached by the House of Representatives, verdict of “not guilty” by the Senate 

18. Ulysses Grant, 1869-1877

  1875 Resumption Act, which eases the economic depression

19. Rutherford Hayes, 1877-1881

  1877 Withdraws troops from the South, thereby ending Reconstruction  

20. James Garfield, 1881

  July 2, 1881 Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau

21. Chester Arthur, 1881-1885

  1883  Pendleton Act

22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889

    Focuses on pension policy, tariff reform, and restoring presidential power

23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

  1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

McKinley Tariff Act

Dependent Pension Act

24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897

  1894   Pullman Strike

25. William McKinley, 1897-1901

  1898 Spanish-American War
    Suppresses revolt in the Philippines
  September 6, 1901 Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz

26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909

  1902  Holds the Northern Securities Company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
  1903  Acquires rights and land to build the Panama Canal
  1905 Reorganizes the Forest Service and appoints Gifford Pinchot as chief
  1906

Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

27. William Taft, 1909-1913

    Domestic parcel post system
  1913 Establishes the Department of Labor

28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921

  1913  Federal Reserve Act
  1914-1918  World War I
  1920 Receives the Nobel Peace Prize

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