Name _______________________________
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Presidency Charts – Period 5 (1844-1877)
Complete these charts as you read the assigned chapters for this unit.
For each event/person/term/theme/idea/etc. listed in the chart, provide a brief identification and discuss the
significance in U.S. history. If possible, make connections to other people/events/themes/ideas/etc. Fit in all the
info & details you can!!
10. John Tyler (1841-1845)
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Major events during Tyler’s Presidency
Veto of Clay’s bill for a Third Bank of the U.S.
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Resignation of the Cabinet (except Webster)
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Annexation of Texas
11. James K. Polk (1845-1849)
Election of 1844
Major events during Polk’s Presidency
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Oregon Boundary Dispute
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Mexican War
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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Wilmot Proviso
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Migration to Utah (1847)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) & 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
Election of 1848
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Major events during Taylor and Fillmore’s Presidencies
Gold Rush to California
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California applies for statehood
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
Election of 1852
Major events during Pierce’s Presidency
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Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Creation of the Republican Party
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Bleeding Kansas
15. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
Election of 1856
Major events during Buchanan’s Presidency
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Dred Scott decision
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Panic of 1857
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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John Brown’s raid (Harper’s Ferry)
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Secession of South Carolina and creation of the Confederacy
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Crittenden plan (John J. Crittenden)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Election of 1860
Prominent Members of Lincoln’s Cabinet
Major events/people during Lincoln’s Presidency
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Civil War
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee
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Union General Ulysses S. Grant
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Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Homestead Act
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Financing the War
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Election of 1864
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13th Amendment
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Lincoln’s 10% Reconstruction Plan
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Assassination (April 14, 1865)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
Why he was put on the ticket in 1864
Opponents of Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Edwin Stanton
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Major events during Johnson’s Presidency
Presidential Reconstruction:
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Johnson’s Plan
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Adoption of Black Codes
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Formation of the KKK
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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14th Amendment
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Congressional Reconstruction: Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Tenure of Office Act
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Impeachment Trial
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Elections of 1868 & 1872
Major events during Grant’s Presidency
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15 Amendment
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The Enforcement Acts
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Panic of 1873
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Grantism/corruption
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Boss Tweed
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Tammany Hall
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Purchase of Alaska
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Compromise of 1877