Presidents after Lincoln

James A. Garfield

Mar 4, 1863

-Advocated hard money policies backed by gold
-Got assasinated after only 100 days in office

Andrew Johnson

Apr 15, 1865

-civil rights act of 1866
-kkk was formed
-was impeached

Ulysses S. Grant

Mar 4, 1869

-Indian Peace Policy
-Gilded Age
-reconstruction of the South

Rutherford B. Hayes

Mar 4, 1877

-Great Railroad Strike
-Ended the reconstruction of the South
-Paraguayan War

Chester Arthur

Sep 19, 1881

-Chinese exclusion act of 1882
-Pendelton act
-worked for the reunification of the nation

Grover Cleveland

Mar 4, 1885

-interstate commerce act
-pullman strike
-panic of 1893

Benjamin Harrison

Aug 20, 1889

-Sherman sntitrust act
-mckinley tariff
-Sherman silver purchase act

William Mckinley

Mar 4, 1897

-Spanish Ameircan War
-Annexation of Hawaii
-Open door policy

Theodore Roosevelt

Sep 14, 1901

-Pure food and drug act
-FBI established
-Panama Canal rights aquired

William Taft

Mar 4, 1909

-sixteen amendment ratified
-Taft's dollar diplomacy policy
-antitrust policy

Woodrow Wilson

Mar 4, 1913

-U.S. enters WWI
-Treaty of Versailles
-Lusitania sink

Warren G. Harding

Mar 4, 1921

-WWI ended
-opposed entry into the league of nations
-limit naval amandments

Calvin Coolidge

Aug 2, 1923

-immingration act of 1924
-The great depression started
-Indian reorganization act

Herbert Hoover

Mar 4, 1929

-Stock Market crash
-Hawley-Smoot tariff
-Bonus Army March

FDR

Mar 4, 1933

-repeal of prohibition
-social security act
-Pearl Harbor attack

Harry S. Truman

Apr 12, 1945

-Atomic bombs on Japan
-NATO treaty
-korean conflict

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jan 20, 1953

-Brown V. Board of education
-NASA formed
-end of korean war

John F. Kennedy

Jan 20, 1961

-Bay of pigs
-Cuban Missle crisis
-Berlin wall built

Lydon B. Johnson

Nov 22, 1963

-civil rights act of 1964
-medicare and medicade
-MLK assasinated

Richard Nixon

Jan 20, 1969

-26th ammendment
-Watergate scandal
-vietnam war ends

gerald ford

Aug 9, 1974

-campain reform law
-helskinki agreement
-communist victory in southeast asia

jimmy carrter

Jan 20, 1977

-camp david accords signed
-boycotts olympics
-iran hostage crisis

Ronald Reagan

Jan 20, 1981

-attempted assasination
-granada invasion
-iran-contra scandal

George H. W. Bush

Jan 20, 1989

-the fall of the berlin wall
-panama invasion
-gulf war

Bill Clinton

Jan 20, 1993

-battle of mogadishu
-signs NAFTA
-impeached due to sex scandal

George W. Bush

Jan 20, 2001

-september 11 terrorist attacks
-war in iraq
-hurricane katrina

Barack Obama

Jan 20, 2009

-BP oil rig explosion
-killed osama bin laden
-Boston Marathon Bombing