The “Meh” Presidents

Issues for almost all these presidents:

• Civil Rights• Tariffs• Silver • Indians

Rutherford B. Hayes

• “Wins” to end Reconstruction

• Uses federal troops to end a railroad strike

• Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce

James Garfield

• Only sitting Representative elected President• Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau after 200

days in office

Chester A. Arthur

• Rebirth of the Navy• Change in Indian policy

Grover Cleveland

• Tariff reform (wanted them lowered)

• Only Democrat from 1861 to 1913

Grover Cleveland

His wife: "I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again." When asked when she would return, she responded, "We are coming back four years from today."

Benjamin Harrison

• Grandson of William Henry Harrison

• Sherman Antitrust Act passed

• Wounded Knee

Grover Cleveland (again)

• Panic of 1893• Populists

William McKinley

• Spanish-American War

William McKinley

• Assassinated in Sep 1901 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz

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Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

• We’ll be back to him

William Howard Taft

• Issue of his presidency: Progressives

• Up to 335lb• Only president to serve

as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• Federal Reserve• Progressive Issues– Eight hour workday– Child labor– Women’s suffrage

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Woodrow Wilson

• Reelected with the campaign – “He kept us out of war.”

Woodrow Wilson

• Reelected with the campaign – “He kept us out of war.”

• Then we went to war• League of Nations

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