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Presidents
US History prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington | 1st President: Events Whiskey Rebellion, Jay's Treaty, Creation of the 1st national bank Farewell address to congress serves 2 terms |
| John Adams | 2nd President and member of the new Federalist Party |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President: Wins the election of 1800 (Peaceful transfer of power), purchases Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 |
| James Madison | 4th president: President during the war of 1812 against the British and wins |
| James Monroe | 5th president: Creates a foreign policy of isolationism under the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 |
| John Q. Adams | 6th President: wins due to a corrupt bargain |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th President: Ushers in the Age of Common man with universal WHITE male suffrage sometimes also referred to as the democratic era. Spoils System, uses the power of Veto to override congress, nullification crisis of 1832, passes the Indian Removal Act |
| James K. Polk | President during the Mexican American Wars (1840) adds Texas, the Southwest territories and the Oregon territory to the United States |
| Abraham Lincoln | Elected in 1860 causing 11 southern states to secede the Union and ushers in the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address and 10 percent plan |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice President who becomes president after Lincoln's assassination. Impeached for being too lenient on the South |
| Ulysses S. Grant | President for the majority of the Reconstruction Period. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Compromise of 1877, ends reconstruction in the South |
| Grover Cleveland | President that ends the Pullman strike 1st president to be elected to non consecutive terms |
| William McKinley | President who wins the Spanish American war and annexes Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, FDA, Meat Inspection Act , Square Deal and Sherman Anti Trust Act |
| William H. Taft | Dollar Diplomacy |
| Woodrow Wilson | Clayton Anti Trust Act, 19th amendment, World War I- to make the world safe for democracy, 14 points of Freedom |
| Herbert Hoover | President during the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression, passes the Hawley Smoot Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevlet | Elected to 4 terms, President during the Depression, New Deal policies, Fireside chats, Lend Lease Act, President during the majority of World War II, Dies in office |
| Harry Truman | President that makes the decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During office for the Berlin Airlift, desegregation of the military, develops the Truman Doctrine during the Cold War. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President who develops the Theory of Deterrence, creates NASA, the Interstate Highway system, and gets involved in Korea and the Vietnam Conflict |
| John F. Kennedy | President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion, will work to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Will be assassinated Nov. 1963 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | President who sends more troops to Vietnam than any other, passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Begins the War on Poverty |
| Richard M. Nixon | Policy of Vietnamization to end the VIetnam Conflict, Opens up diplomacy with China, resigns from office after the Watergate Scandal |
| Gerald Ford | Only unelected President- Was the Speaker of the House after the resignations of both the President and Vice President |
| Ronald Reagan | Puts in policies that will lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union with SDI and START, will usher is an economic policy of trickle down tax cuts and will reduce the Federal Government. |
| George H.W. Bush | Operation Desert Storm in Iraq to ensure the flow of oil to NATO allies and will continue the Reagan Revolution tax cuts. He will be president when the Cold War ends. |
| William J. Clinton | NAFTA, will use economic sanctions against South Africa to end Apartheid, will wage a bombing campaign over the former Yugoslavia. |
| George W. Bush | President during the 9/11 attacks will create the Department of Homeland Security, will allow wiretapping to help catch terrorists, will pass the No Child Left Behind Act and will wage war against Afghanistan and Iraq |
| Barack Obama | Will pass the Affordable Health Care Act and end the Reagan Revolution Tax Cuts. |
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