Miss Harris "U.S. Presidents"

Molly Lorenz
Miss Harris
USA History II
10/4/07
Presidents and Vice Presidents from 1861-1912
One Fact About Their Political Stance
One Event of Their Reign
President: Abraham Lincoln
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1861-1865
Political Stance Fact: He was for the freedom of slaves, and welcomed the South "back" into the US after they had seceded.
Major Event: Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment.
-Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin
-Vice President: Andrew Johnson

President: Andrew Johnson
Politics: National Union
Reign of Presidency: 1865-1869
Political Stance Fact: He wanted to continue with Lincoln's plans, but when most of the Southern states did not ratify the 14th Amendment, he had to include punishments and limitations.
Major Event: Black codes, Freedman's Bureau, End of Civil War, 13&14th Amendments.
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President: Ulysses S. Grant
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1869-1877
Political Stance Fact: He allowed the Radical Reconstruction in the South run its course, bolstering it occasionally with military action.
Major Event: Credit Mobilier, the Sanborn contracts, the Whiskey Ring, Belknap bribery, ratification of the 15th Amendment, the Panic of 1873, and the Resumption of Specie Act.
-Vice President: Schuyler Colfax

President: Rutherford Hayes
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1877-1881
Political Stance Fact: He pledged protection of the rights of blacks in the South, but at the same time advocated the restoration of "wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government".
Major Event: Bland-Allison Act
-Vice President: William Wheeler

President: James Garfield
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1881
Political Stance Fact: During the secession crisis, he advocated coercing the seceding states back into the Union.
Major Event: Chinese Exclusion Act
-Vice President: Chester Arthur

President: Chester Arthur
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1881-1885
Political Stance Fact: Remained unattached and unaffiliated with any party.
Major Event: Pendleton Act and Tarriff Act

President: Grover Cleveland
Politics: Democrat
Reign of Presidency: 1885-1889, 1893-1897
Political Stance Fact: He wanted policy barring special favors to any economic group. Vetoing a bill to appropriate $10,000 to distribute seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in Texas, first democrat president since the Civil War.
Major Event: Interstate Commerce Act,
-Vice President: Thomas Hendriks (First time.)
-Vice President: Adlai Stevenson (Second time.)

President: Benjamin Harrison
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1889-1893
Political Stance Fact: Tried to have the US annex Hawaii, but was out-voted
Major Event: Sherman Anti-Trust Act,
-Vice President: Levi Morton

President: William McKinley
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1897-1901
Political Stance Fact: Thought of trusts as "dangerous conspiracies against the public good".
Major Event: The Great Depression, Spanish-American War
-Vice President: Garret Hobart,
-Vice President: Theodore Roosevelt

President: Theodore Roosevelt
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1901-1909
Political Stance Fact: Held the ideal that the government should be the arbiter of the opposing economic forces in the US; esp. between labor and capital, favoring neither side.
Major Event: Construction of the Panama Canal, won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, and for reaching a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan.
-Vice President: Charles Fairbanks

President: William Taft
Politics: Republican
Reign of Presidency: 1909-1913
Political Stance Fact: Did not like Roosevelt, and in fact did not welcome him back when Roosevelt returned from Africa.
Major Event: 16th Amendment,
-Vice President: James Sherman