Advanced Placement United States History I
PRESIDENCY CHART
Andrew Johnson – The 17th
(1865 - 1869)
Why he was put on the ticket in 1864?
Major Events during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson
Adoption of Black Codes
Formation of the KKK
Freedmen’s Bureau
1865 &
1866
1865
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Congressional Reconstruction
Acts
1867
Tenure of Office Act
Impeachment Trial
March –
May 1886
Purchase of Alaska
Ex Parte Milligan
1866
Supreme Court ruled that military trials of civilians were illegal unless the
civil courts are imperative of the region is under martial law.
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Election of 1868
Ulysses S. Grant – The 18th
(1869 – 1872)
Election of 1872
Major events during the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
15th Amendment
Force Bills
1870 1871
Ku Klux Klan Act
First Transcontinental
Railroad
Panic of 1873
Corruption
Credit Mobilier Scandal
A construction company owned by the larger stockholders of the Union
Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific received the government contract
to build the transcontinental railroad, it "hired" Credit Mobilier to do
the actual construction, charging the federal government nearly twice
the actual cost of the project. When the scheme was discovered, the
company tried to bribe Congress with gifts of stock to stop the
investigation. This precipitated the biggest bribery scandal in U.S.
history, and led to greater public awareness of government corruption.
Whiskey Ring
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
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Rutherford B. Hayes – The 19th
(1877 – 1881)
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Major events during the Presidency of Rutherford B. hayes
The Great Railroad Strike of
1877
The Bland-Allison Act
Split in the Republican Party
Stalwarts
Half-Breeds
Mugwumps
Munn v. Illinois
1877
Emergence of the Knights of
Labor
1878
Role in the Civil War
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James A Garfield – The 20th
(1881)
The Election of 1880
Chester A. Arthur – The 21st
(1881 – 1885)
Major events during the Presidency of Garfield and Arthur
The assassination of Garfield
The Century of Dishonor
Published in 1881
1881
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
1883
Civil Service Reforms
Veteran Pension Issue
Tariff Issue
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Grover Cleveland – The 22nd and
the 24th (1885 – 1889 & 1893 –
1997)
Election of 1884
Election of 1892
Major events during the Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
Haymarket Square Riot
1886
Failure of Tariff Reform
Wabash Railroad v. Illinois
1886
Interstate Commerce Act
1887
Dawes Severalty Act
1887
Panic of 1893 and Depression
Repeal of the Sherman Silver
Purchase Act
1893
Coxey’s Army
Pullman Strike
1894
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In re Debs
1895
US v. EC Knight
1895
Booker T. Washington’s
Atlanta Compromise Speech
1895
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
The Election of 1888
Benjamin Harrison – The 23rd
(1889 – 1893)
Major events during the Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
States admitted to the Union
during his Presidency
1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
McKinley Tarriff
1890
Battle of Wounded Knee
1890
Homestead Strike
1892
Advanced Placement United States History II - Presidential Chart – Summer Assignment
Advanced Placement United States History II - Presidential Chart – Summer Assignment