Andrew Johnson

Qualifications Raised Poor, Tailor Wanted Union Back Together Did Not Protect Slave Rights Tenure of Office Act – President Cannot Fire Cabinet Members First President to Be Impeached – Stayed President By 1 Vote in Senate Considered One of the Worst Presidents

Ulysses S. Grant

Qualifications Civil War General For the Union Sought to Protect African American Rights Sought to End KKK Set Gold Standard Sought Out Trade With Europe For Peace Relations Panic of 1873 – Undid Most Reconstruction Efforts

Rutherford B. Hayes

Qualifications Officer in the US Army Compromise of 1877 – Hayes Wins Presidency, Army Intervention Stops in the South Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Dawes Act – Government Could Survey N.A. Land and Divide it Up Hayes Keeps Promise Not to Run Again

James Garfield 1881

Qualifications 9 Terms in the House of Reps President Authority Over Senate Strengthen Naval Power Purging Corruption in the Post Office Appointed Several African Americans to Government Positions Assassinated After Only 200 Days in Office – Harrison 30 Days (Only Shorter Term)

Chester Arthur

Qualifications Lawyer General in Union Army Pendleton Act Rivers and Harbors Act – Money to Fix Rivers and Waterways Rebirth of the Navy Budget in Surplus Since Civil War Known For Facial Hair (Johnson to Arthur)

Grover Cleveland

Qualifications Only President to Serve 2 Non-Consecutive Terms Opposed High Tariffs, Free Silver, Inflation, Imperialism, Subsidies Businesses, Farmers, or Veterans Honesty, Self-Reliance, Integrity Fought Political Corruption Panic of 1893 = Depression

Benjamin Harrison

Qualifications Grandson of 9 th President Lawyer Colonel in Union Army McKinley Tariff – High Protective Tariffs Sherman Antitrust Act Land Revision Act of 1891 – Create National Forrest Imposed Federal Education and Voting Rights For African Americans Federal Spending Reached $1 Billion for First Time

William McKinley

Qualifications Spanish-American War Higher Protective Tariff Maintained Gold Standard Over Inflation Last President to Serve in Civil War Rapid Economic Growth of US Puerto Rico, Guam, The Philippines Hawaii Armed Forces in Cuba Assassinated During 2 nd Term (Cleveland – Taft)

Theodore Roosevelt

Qualifications Author, Naturalist, Explorer, Historian, Politician, Rancher Leader of Republican Party Founded Progressive Party Suffered From Asthma Harvard University – Biology and Boxing Helped Form Rough Riders (Cowboy Group) Youngest Person to Become President

Policies “Square Deal” – Break Up Monopolies and Trusts “Big Stick Policy” – Built the Panama Canal – Took Awhile Due to Malaria Expanded National Parks and Forests Negotiated End to Russo-Japan War – Won Nobel Peace Prize

William Taft

Qualifications Only Person to Be President and Later Chief Justice Supported By T. Roosevelt Trust Busting, Civil Service Reform, Post Office, Interstate Commerce Commission 16 th Amendment – Allows Congress to Take Income Tax “Dollar Diplomacy” in Latin America (Cleveland – Taft)