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55 Cards in this Set
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1845-1849
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James K. Polk
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1850-1853
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Millard Fillmore
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1849-1850
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Zachary Taylor
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1857-1861
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James Buchanan
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1853-1857
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Franklin Pierce
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1861-1865
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Abraham Lincoln
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1877-1881
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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1869-1877
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Ulysses S. Grant
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1865-1869
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Andrew Johnson
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1881
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James Garfield
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President during the Mexican American War
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James K. Polk
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President during the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Franklin Pierce
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First Republican President
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Abraham Lincoln
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Died in Office on July 9, 1850
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Zachary Taylor
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President during the beginning of the California Gold Rush
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Zachary Taylor
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President during the Dred Scott Case
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James Buchanan
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President during the John Brown incident at Harper's Ferry
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James Buchanan
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President during the second "Era of Good Feelings"
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Millard Fillmore
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln
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Assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe on April 14, 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln
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President during the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau on September 19, 1881
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James A. Garfield
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President during the Electoral Count Act (Compromise of 1877)
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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President during the Panic of 1873.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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President during the Credit Mobilier Scandal.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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20th President
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James A. Garfield
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16th President
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Abraham Lincoln
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18th President
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Ulysses S. Grant
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19th President
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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17th President
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Andrew Johnson
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12th President
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Zachary Taylor
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11th President
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James K. Polk
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13th President
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Millard Fillmore
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15th President
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James Buchanan
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14th President
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Franklin Pierce
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President during the Compromise of 1850.
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Millard Fillmore
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Removed federal troops from the South as a compromise for election
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Won Southern support because of his ownership of over 100 slaves.
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Zachary Taylor
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Opposed strong national bank, slavery in new states, and high tariffs.
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Zachary Taylor
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1877 Desert Land Act gives land deeds to people who settle, irrigate Midwestern land
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Passed Homestead Act of 1862
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Abraham Lincoln
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Wilmot Proviso proposes abolition of slavery in all states acquired from Mexico.
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James K. Polk
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President during the creation of the Freedman's Bureau
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Abraham Lincoln
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President that used the term "Manifest Destiny" for the first time.
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James K. Polk
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Controversial in his suppression of habeas corpus.
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Abraham Lincoln
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President when the Fugitive Slave Law as passed
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Millard Fillmore
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President when California became a free state.
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Millard Fillmore
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President when Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
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Millard Fillmore
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Whiskey Ring Scandal
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Established many black codes while Congress was on recess and pardoned many war criminals
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Andrew Johnson
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Attempt at impeachment fell one vote short
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Andrew Johnson
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President when the 15th Amendment was passed.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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13th and 14th Amendments passed.
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Andrew Johnson
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President during the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Franklin Pierce
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Fighting breaks out in Kansas over slave status.
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Franklin Pierce
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