Name _______________________________
Date ___________________ Period ______
Presidency Charts – Period 6 (1877-1898)
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!!
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
Election of 1876 & the Compromise of 1877
(review from the end of Period 5)
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Major events during Hayes’s Presidency
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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Split in the Republican Party
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Stalwarts
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Half-Breeds
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Mugwumps
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Munn v. Illinois
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Emergence of the Knights of Labor
20. James A. Garfield (1881) & 21. Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
Election of 1880 & the issue of the tariff
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Major events during Garfield & Arthur’s Presidencies
Assassination of Garfield
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
Election of 1884
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Major events during Cleveland’s first term
Haymarket Square Riot & the Knights of Labor
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American Federation of Labor founded
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Wabash v. Illinois
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Dawes Severalty Act
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
Election of 1888
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Major events during Harrison’s Presidency
States admitted to the Union during Harrison’s presidency
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Closing of the frontier & the Turner thesis
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Jane Addams founds Hull House
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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McKinley Tariff Act
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Populist Party formed
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Homestead Strike
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
Election of 1892
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Major events during Cleveland’s second term
Panic of 1893 & Depression
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Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Jacob Coxey & “Coxey’s Army”
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Pullman Strike
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Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)
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Plessy v. Ferguson
25.William McKinley (1897-1901)
Election of 1896
Election of 1900
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Major events during McKinley’s Presidency
Expansionist Sentiment (Mahan, Lodge, Beveridge, Strong)
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Spanish-American War
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Annexation of Hawaii
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Teller Amendment (1898)
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Platt Amendment (1901)
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Guerrilla War in the Philippines / Emilio Aguinaldo