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11 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Johnson (R) |
1865-1869 17th president of the United States. - As vice president of Lincoln, Johnson took office after his assassination. |
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Ulysses S. Grant (R) |
1869-1877 18th president of the United States. - Beat Horatio Seymour in the first election. - Best Horace Greeley in the second election, 1872.
- Panic of 1873: a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression both in Europe and the United States. |
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Rutherford B. Hayes (R) |
1877-1881 19th president of the United States.
- Election stolen from (D) Samuel J. Tilden. - Ended the Reconstruction as part of the deal.
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James A. Garfield (R) |
1881 20th president of the United States.
- Campaign financed by the Half-Breeds. In order to pay off the political debt, Garfield appointed James G. Blaine as secretary of state. - Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally ill and disaffected office seeker, shot Garfield twice on June 2, 1881, one in the arm and the other in his back. He yelled, "I am a Stalwart! Arthur is now president!" Garfield lived on the edge of death for about 80 days before he died of his wounds on September 19, 1881. |
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Chester A. Authur (R) |
- Succeeded Garfield after his death in 1881-1885 - 21st president of the United States.
- James G. Blaine took the Republican nomination in 1884, but would lose to Democrat, Grover Cleveland. |
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Grover Cleveland (D) |
1885-1889 22nd president of the United States.
- First Democrat to be elected after the Civil War. - First president to have hanged a man as sheriff in Buffalo, NY. - The only president to get married in the White House.
1893-1897 24th president of the United States.
- Did not tow the party line.
- "I have tried so hard to do right. |
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Benjamin Harris (R) |
1889-1893 23rd president of the United States.
- He beat incumbent, Grover Cleveland. |
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William McKinley (R) |
1897-1901 25th president of the United States.
- He beat Democrat nominee, William Jennings Bryan. - Declared war on Spain, starting the Spanish-American War (April 21-August 13, 1898). - Annexed Hawaii on July 7, 1898. - Assassinated on September 6, 1901 by Leon F. Czolgosz, an anarchist who said he wanted to kill a "ruler." The first thing McKinley said was to not tell his wife, and that the assailant should not be hurt. He died on September 14, 1901. |
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Theodore Roosevelt (R) |
1901-1909 26th president of the United States.
- Vice President in 1901, succeeded President McKinley after his assassination. - First president of the 20th century. - Enforced the Sherman Anti-Trust laws. - Built the Panama Canal.
Beat Democrat Charles W. Fairbanks in 1904.
- Expanded the Monroe Doctrine, known as the Roosevelt Corollary. - Won the Nobel Peace Prize after mediating peace between the two warring nations of the Russo-Japanese War. - Coined the term muckraker. |
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William Howard Taft (R) |
1909-1913 27th president of the United States.
- Roosevelt very much supported Taft as his successor and single-handedly placed Taft in the White House. - Pressured into being president by his wife. - 6'2 and 300lbs, the antithesis of his predecessor. - Angered Roosevelt by not progressing his policies, Roosevelt ran on a progressive ticket splitting the votes and handing it over to Woodrow Wilson December, 1912. |
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Woodrow Wilson (D) |
1913-1921 28th president of the United States.
- Beat incumbent William Howard Taft in the 1912 election due to a three way split with Teddy Roosevelt. - The most highly educated man to become president with more than a dozen college degrees and having written many scholarly books before taking office. - President during WWI. |
