by Matthew Degtyar

Herbert Hoover

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:22:25 UTC

31^st president. Watched businesses collapse and Americans sink into poverty, as most of his relief plans had flopped. Vetoed direct relief efforts on the grounds that it would be too much governmental involvement and would cripple the capitalism in America. He believed that the depression should be handled on a local level and that the Federal Government had no place to intervene. Said the depression was beyond his control, came off as apathetic to America’s problems.

Ulysses S. Grant

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:29:00 UTC

18^th president. Widespread graft and corruption during his presidency. Had good intentions. Hi suspension of habeas corpus in attempts to squash the Klu Klux Klan and his support of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 had no long lasting changes for African Americans. Involved in several scandals. Whiskey Ring- Whiskey producers bribed Treasury Department agents to not collect 70 cents per gallon. Orville E. Babcock, one of the tax evaders, was put on trial. Grant was accused of protecting Babcock. He fired and replaced a special prosecutor in order to protect Babcock.

John Tyler

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:37:46 UTC

10^th president. Born into aristocracy. Supported South Carolina’s prerogative to secede. Tyler opposed everything his party stood for, including a national bank. Basically took control over the cabinet. He was stubborn and out of touch with America's problems. The entire Harrison- appointed cabinet resigned. Tyler had to fight an attempt to impeach him.

Warren G. Harding

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:38:59 UTC

29^th president. Vague campaign promises. While in office, he was occupied by golf, poker, and his mistress. Drank whiskey in the White House which was a violation of the 18th amendment. During this time, his appointees plundered the government in many creative ways. The secretary of interior let oil companies tap into government oil reserves, including one in Teapot Dome.

James Buchanan

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:41:10 UTC

15^th president. Employed a cabinet of Northerners and Southerners in hopes to settle the issue of slavery- issue only intensified and people viewed him as a Southern sympathizer. Signed the Lecompton Constitution, it allowed Kansas to be a slave state, which angered Northerners. Led to John Brown starting a slave in Virginia. Hostilities between the North and South intensified. Didn't do much to stop the secession.

Franklin Pierce

mattdegtyar — 2014-05-18 15:44:02 UTC

14^th president. Passed the Kansas- Nebraska Act which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. Repealed ban of slavery in Kansas. The Act indirectly created the Republican Party in the North. Issue got so out of hand that Rep. Preston Books assaulted Senator Charles Summer on the Senate floor. Only president not to be renominated by his party.