American Presidents
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- Jimmy Carter
- Iran Hostage Crisis, Camp David Accords.
- Andrew Johnson
- First president impeacheed- senate acquits by one vote, 13th and 14th amendments pass, office tenure act.
- Harry S. Truman
- Ordered Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan, Marshall Plan, Cold War begins.
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grandson of a President
- Abraham Lincon
- civil war, emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg Address.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- ended Korean War, Brown vs. Board of education, Height of McCarthyism
- James K. Polk
- Manifest Destiny, Mexican- American War, and Treaty of Guadalupe, Texas joins Union, women's rights- seneca falls.
- Franklin Piece
- Gadsen Purchase, bleeding Kansas, Kansas- Nebraska act, Republican Party forms (abolitionists)
- Grover Cleveland
- Veto President
- John Adams
- First Vice- president, XYZ affair, undeclared war of 1797-1800, the midnight judges, appointed John Marshall, Marbury vs. Madison.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Reconstrucion ends, union troops leave the south, compomise of 1877.
- John Quincy Adams
- Transportation revolution erie canal, cumberland road, wester expansion, skinny- dipped.
- Grover Cleveland
- Only President to serve two non- consecutive terms.
- William Howard Taft
- Supreme Court Justice, Trustbuster.
- Martin Van Buren
- 1837 Business panic, America's first recession.
- Calvin Coolidge
- Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic, prosperity.
- Woodrow Wilson
- World War I, Leage of Nations
- John F. Kennedy
- Bay of Pigs Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis.
- John Tyler
- First Vice- President to become President, Nickname:" His accidenct, "and" Mr. Veto," Florida becomes a state in 1845, had two wives, 15 children combined.
- Zachary Taylor
- Youngest general in war of 1812 and Mexican american war, calofornia Gold Rush, dies in office after 16 months, possibly from eating ice cream and cherries.
- Bill Clinton
- Monica Lesinsky affair, trial of impeachment, very stron economic growth.
- Andrew Jackson
- Indian removal act, nullification crisis, nickname:"Old Hickory," first southern/ western president," President for the common man," pet banks, spoils system, specie circular, trail of tears, Henry Clay Flectural Process.
- William Henry Harrison
- first president to die in office, died afer thirty days in office of pneumonia, was a general in indian removal, nickname:" Tippecanoe and Tyler Too."
- Ronald Reagan
- End of the Cold War
- Richard M. Nixon
- Watergate, First president to visit China, Moon Landing.
- Warren G. Harding
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- James Garfield
- Assassinated after sex months in office by Charles Guiteau.
- William McKinley
- Spanish- American War, Assassinated.
- George Washington
- commander of continental army during revolutionary war, president of the constitutional convention, french and indian war, proclaimed neutrality: no entangling alliances.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Louisiana Purchase, main author of the declaration of independence.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The New Deal, World War II.
- George W. Bush
- 9/11/01 Terrorist attack, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts in the War on terror, Extremely high gas prices, Hurricane Katrina.
- Millard Fillmore
- compromise of 1850, California becomes a free state, territories chose popular sovereignty, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Union General in the civil war, indian wars, 15t amendment, passes, transcontinental railroad.
- James Buchanan
- Dred Scott Decision, Bachelor President, South carolina secedes, confederacy forms.
- Gerald R. Ford
- Pardons Nixon, U.S. troops leave Vietnam.
- James Monroe
- Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine/ Hands- off policy, era of good felling, first public high school.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Panamaa Canal built, set up national parks- yellowstone.
- George Bush
- Persian Gulf War, Soviet Union dissolves into Russioa and other countries.
- Chester Arthur
- Civil service reform
- James Madison
- Father of the constitution, war of 1812, treaty of Ghent, Dolly Madison, White house burned, rush baggot treaty, demilitarized the great lakes.
- Herbery Hoover
- Great Depression
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement.