Key Presidential Achievements

 

Civil War, 1861-1865

(16.) President Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

Republican
Vice President - Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson
Secretary of State - William H. Seward (New York)
Secretary of Treasury - Salmon P. Chase
Secretary of War - Edwin M. Stanton

Civil War, 1861-1865
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Homestead Act, 1862
Morill Act, 1862 (created agricultural colleges)
Assassinated April 14th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

(17.) President Andrew Johnson, 1865, 1869

Democrat
Secretary of State - William H. Seward (No Vice President)

13th Amendment, 1865
14th Amendment, 1868
Reconstruction Act, 1867
Tenure of Office Act, 1867
Impeachment Trial, 1868
Formation of KKK
Adoption of Black Codes in the South

(18.) President Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877

Republican
Vice President - Schuyler Colfax & Henry Wilson
Secretary of State - Hamilton Fish

15th Amendment, 1870
First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
Tweed Ring
Panic of 1873
Crédit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
Indian Ring

Gilded Age, 1877-1900

(19.) President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881

Republican
Vice President - William Wheeler

Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinage of silver)
Troops withdrawn from the South, 1877

(20). President James A Garfield, March 4 to September 19, 1881

Republican
Vice President - Chester A. Arthur
Secretary of State - James A. Blaine

Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau

(21.) President Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885

Republican
No Vice President
Secretary of State - James A. Blaine

Pendleton Act, 1883 (set up civil service commission)

(22.) President Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889

Democrat
Vice President - Thomas Hendricks

Knights of Labor, 1886
Haymarket Riot, 1886
Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
Washburn v. Illinois, 1886

(23.) President Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

Republican
Vice President - Levi Morton
Secretary of State - James A. Blaine

Sherman Anti-trust Act, 1890
Populist Party Platform, 1892
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington become states, 1889
Idaho and Wyoming become states, 1890
McKinley Tariff, 1890
Sherman Act, 1890

(24.) President Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897

Democrat (only President to serve two non-consecutive terms)
Vice President - Adlai Stevenson

Panic of 1893
Hawaiian incident, 1893
Venezuelan Boundary Affair, 1895
Pullman Strike, 1894
American Federation of Labor
Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894

(25.) President William McKinley, 1897-1901

Republican
Vice Presidents - Garet Hobart & Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of State - John Hay

New Imperialism
Spanish-American War, April 1898 - February 1899
Open Door Policy, 1899
Boxer Rebellion, 1900
McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, 1901