Preview of the Upcoming Presidents Part 1 (1869-1881)

Since the test is over, I was thinking of blogging for preview. 
So here I am with facts about the presidents we will soon learn about!

President Ulysses S. Grant

Notable for his military achievements as the general of the U.S. Army in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was already a popular choice as a president. A Republican president with Lincoln’s moral visions and militaristic ways of solving problems, Grant was believed to have had no real policy for Reconstruction since he continued the Congressional Radical Reconstruction. He did things according to the opinions of the Republicans and sent troops to the South in an attempt to stop the Ku Klux Klan or similar racist cults, which the South thought was militarism directly from the federal government. 

Here are some of the list of acts/laws President Grant passed and his accomplishments...
(sorry they are not in order)

• Civil Rights Act of 1875
• 15th Amendment
• Specie Resumption Act
• Indian Appropriation Act
• Ku Klux Klan Law
• Federal Election Law
• Civil Rights Act of 1870
• Enforcement of Civil Rights for African Americans in the Reconstruction States
• Signed the Amnesty Act of 1872
• Signed the bill that promoted Black Voting Rights
• Passed the Inflation Bill in 1874
• Signed the Treaty of Washington for settling the Alabama Claims dispute between Britain and the United States by International Arbitration

President Rutherford B. Hayes

Overall, President Rutherford B. Hayes’ presidency was uneventful; however, one notable action that this Republican president did was dismantling the Reconstruction regime imposed on the defeated Southern states. No matter how unpopular this idea was, President Hayes wasn’t given much choice to decide on this matter, and he had to relieve the South of the heavy Northern influence and remove the federal troops in the former Confederacy. (*To all the advocates of feminism out there, President Hayes was the one who passed the bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the supreme court of the United States!)

Here are some of President Hayes’ policies...
(again they are not in order)

• Bland-Allison Act 
• Prohibited federal office holders from taking part in party politics and protected them from receiving party contributions
• Signed the Domestic Act
• Signed the Bill requirement for Black rights
• Compromise of 1877
• Desert Land Act (1877)
• Timber and Stone Act (1878)
• Tidewater Act (1879)

President James A. Garfield

President James A. Garfield’s achievements as a president is almost unnoticeable, well, mainly because he was assassinated. Again, a Republican, President Garfield was the one who started the work of Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. He is mostly known for his long rivalry and dissent with the New York Senator Roscoe Conkling.

Here are President Garfield’s policies...
(order is debatable)

• Attempted to reestablish the Independence of the presidency
• Civil and Post Office Reform
• Civil Rights and Universal Education

stay tuned for....Part 2!