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 .