Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

Qualifications

• Raised Poor, Tailor• Wanted Union Back Together• Did Not Protect Slave Rights• Tenure of Office Act– President Cannot Fire Cabinet Members

• First President to Be Impeached– Stayed President By 1 Vote in Senate

• Considered One of the Worst Presidents

Ulysses S. Grant1869-1877

Qualifications

• Civil War General For the Union• Sought to Protect African American

Rights• Sought to End KKK• Set Gold Standard• Sought Out Trade With Europe For

Peace Relations• Panic of 1873– Undid Most Reconstruction Efforts

Rutherford B. Hayes

1877-1881

Qualifications

• Officer in the US Army• Compromise of 1877– Hayes Wins Presidency, Army Intervention Stops in

the South• Great Railroad Strike of 1877• Dawes Act– Government Could Survey N.A. Land and Divide it

Up• Hayes Keeps Promise Not to Run Again

James Garfield1881

Qualifications

• 9 Terms in the House of Reps• President Authority Over Senate• Strengthen Naval Power• Purging Corruption in the Post Office• Appointed Several African Americans to

Government Positions• Assassinated After Only 200 Days in Office– Harrison 30 Days (Only Shorter Term)

Chester Arthur1881-1885

Qualifications

• Lawyer• General in Union Army• Pendleton Act• Rivers and Harbors Act– Money to Fix Rivers and Waterways

• Rebirth of the Navy• Budget in Surplus Since Civil War• Known For Facial Hairhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxJKZdv0V0 (Johnson to Arthur)

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889

Qualifications

• Only President to Serve 2 Non-Consecutive Terms

• Opposed High Tariffs, Free Silver, Inflation, Imperialism, Subsidies Businesses, Farmers, or Veterans

• Honesty, Self-Reliance, Integrity • Fought Political Corruption• Panic of 1893 = Depression

Benjamin Harrison

1889-1893

Qualifications

• Grandson of 9th President• Lawyer• Colonel in Union Army• McKinley Tariff– High Protective Tariffs

• Sherman Antitrust Act• Land Revision Act of 1891– Create National Forrest

• Imposed Federal Education and Voting Rights For African Americans

• Federal Spending Reached $1 Billion for First Time

William McKinley1897-1901

Qualifications

• Spanish-American War• Higher Protective Tariff• Maintained Gold Standard Over Inflation• Last President to Serve in Civil War• Rapid Economic Growth of US• Puerto Rico, Guam, The Philippines• Hawaii• Armed Forces in Cuba• Assassinated During 2nd Termhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqUKRJk7dQ (Cleveland – Taft)

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-1909

Qualifications• Author, Naturalist, Explorer, Historian,

Politician, Rancher• Leader of Republican Party• Founded Progressive Party• Suffered From Asthma• Harvard University– Biology and Boxing

• Helped Form Rough Riders (Cowboy Group)

• Youngest Person to Become President

Policies

• “Square Deal”– Break Up Monopolies and Trusts

• “Big Stick Policy”– Built the Panama Canal– Took Awhile Due to Malaria

• Expanded National Parks and Forests• Negotiated End to Russo-Japan War– Won Nobel Peace Prize

William Taft1909-1913

Qualifications

• Only Person to Be President and Later Chief Justice

• Supported By T. Roosevelt• Trust Busting, Civil Service Reform,

Post Office, Interstate Commerce Commission

• 16th Amendment– Allows Congress to Take Income Tax

• “Dollar Diplomacy” in Latin Americahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqUKRJk7dQ (Cleveland – Taft)