1. US Presidents 11-20

2. James K. Polk 1845-1849 First “dark horse” President Remembered for:
Texas and Oregon Annexation
California Settlement
War with Mexico
Considered to be the last strong President until the Civil War

3. Zachary Taylor
Very important general in the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812
He is remembered for:
Being a Nationalist
Rough and Ready
An Early Civil War?
He died July 9, 1850

4. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Took office in Taylor’s absence
Remembered for:
Admitting California as a free state
Settling the boundary of Texas
Making New Mexico a Territory
Abolishing the Slave Trade in DC

5. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Unlikely President Remembered for:
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
Pro-Railroad
Purchasing Arizona and New Mexico
Made a move toward Cuba
Democratic Party Refused to reelect him

6. James Buchanan 1857-1861 The only POTUS elected from Pennsylvania
Never Married
His Niece served as FLOTUS
Remembered for:
Dred Scott Decision
Kansas Slave State/Territory
Federal Stalemate

7. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Honest Abe Built a strong Republican Party
Remembered for:
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War
Assassinated in Ford’s Theatre

8. Andrew Johnson
Became President through the assassination of Lincoln.
Remembered for:
Reconstructing the Southern States
“Black Codes”
Amendment 14
President Andrew Johnson would be the first President to be impeached

9. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 The Puzzled President
He was often caught in scandals or taking gifts.
Remembered for:
The Gold Scandal
Radical Reconstruction
He left the White House a poor man
Wrote a memoir that would support his family after he died of throat cancer.

10. Rutherford B Hayes 1877-1881 One and Done President Remembered for:
Finishing Reconstruction
Removed Martial Law from the South
Pledged to protect the rights of Negros

11. James Garfield 1881 Garfield would fight for the Presidency
200 days in would be assassinated.