Name ______Date ______Period ______

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)

Major events during Tyler’s Presidency  Veto of Clay’s bill for a Third Bank of the U.S.

 Resignation of the Cabinet (except Webster)

 Annexation of Texas

11. James K. Polk (1845-1849)

Election of 1844

Major events during Polk’s Presidency  Oregon Boundary Dispute

 Mexican War

 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

 Wilmot Proviso

 Migration to Utah (1847)

12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) & 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

Election of 1848

Major events during Taylor and Fillmore’s Presidencies  Gold Rush to California

 California applies for statehood

 Compromise of 1850

 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

Election of 1852

Major events during Pierce’s Presidency  Gadsden Purchase

 Kansas-Nebraska Act

 Creation of the Republican Party

 Bleeding Kansas

15. James Buchanan (1857-1861)

Election of 1856

Major events during Buchanan’s Presidency  Dred Scott decision

 Panic of 1857

 Lincoln-Douglas debates

 John Brown’s raid (Harper’s Ferry)

 Secession of South Carolina and creation of the Confederacy

 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  Civil War

 Confederate General Robert E. Lee

 Union General Ulysses S. Grant

 Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus

 Emancipation Proclamation

 Homestead Act

 Financing the War

 Election of 1864

 13th Amendment

 Lincoln’s 10% Reconstruction Plan

 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

Major events during Johnson’s Presidency  Presidential Reconstruction:

 Johnson’s Plan

o Adoption of Black Codes

o Formation of the KKK

 Freedmen’s Bureau

 14th Amendment

 Congressional Reconstruction: Reconstruction Act of 1867

 Tenure of Office Act

 Impeachment Trial

18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

Elections of 1868 & 1872

Major events during Grant’s Presidency  15th Amendment

 The Enforcement Acts

 Civil Rights Act of 1875

 Panic of 1873

 Grantism/corruption

o Boss Tweed

o Tammany Hall

 Purchase of Alaska

 Compromise of 1877