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