Gilded Age, 1877-1900

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)

 * Republican
 * VP: William Wheeler
 * Major items:
 * Bland-Allison Act, 1878
 * Troops withdrawn from the South, 1877, as part of the Corrupt Bargain

James A. Garfield (4 March 1881 - 19 September 1881)

 * Republican
 * VP: Chester A. Arthur
 * Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
 * Major items:
 * Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau

Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)

 * Republican
 * Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
 * Major items:
 * Pendleton Act, 1883

Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)

 * Democrat
 * VP: T. A. Hendricks
 * Major items:
 * Knights of Labor, 1886
 * Haymarket Riot, 1886
 * Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
 * Washburn v. Illinois, 1886

Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)

 * Republican
 * VP: Levi Morgan
 * Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
 * Major items:
 * Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
 * Populist Party Platform, 1892
 * North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington become states, 1889
 * Idaho and Wyoming become states, 1890
 * McKinley Tariff, 1890
 * Sherman Act, 1890

Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)

 * Only President to serve two non-consecutive terms
 * Democrat
 * VP: Adlai Stevenson
 * Major items:
 * Panic of 1893
 * Hawaiian incident, 1893
 * Venezuelan Boundary Affair, 1895
 * Pullman Strike, 1894
 * American Federation of Labor
 * Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894

William McKinley (1897-1901)

 * Republican
 * VP: Garret Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt
 * Secretary of State: John Hay
 * Major items:
 * New Imperialism
 * Spanish-American War, April 1898 - February 1899
 * Open Door Policy, 1899
 * Boxer Rebellion, 1900
 * Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, 1901