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WGU - Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington 1789-1797 | Bill of Rights; Fugitive slave act; Republican and Federalist party formed |
| Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 | Lewis and Clark Expedition; Louisiana Purchase and expansion of the Nation. |
| James Madison 1809-1817 | (blank) |
| James Monroe 1817-1825 | Missouri Compromise (1820)Missouri entered as slave, Maine entered as free, slavery forever prohibited in rest of Louisiana purchase-North of 36 deg 30 min N. Latititude- |
| John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 | (blank) |
| Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 | (blank) |
| Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 | (blank) |
| William Henry Harrison 1841-1841 (1 month) | (blank) |
| John Tyler 1841-1845 | (blank) |
| James Knox Polk 1845-1849 | (blank) |
| Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 | (blank) |
| Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 | Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive slae act amended enforcing penalties with regard to runaways; CA admitted as Free, abolition of slave trade; UT territory created; NM territory created; TX annexed. |
| Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 | Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854; Bleeding Kansas-Antislavery extremist - John Brown and his followers took 5 proslavery men from cabinsin Kansas and murdered them. Dred-Scott Case 1857 |
| James Buchanan 1857-1861 | (blank) |
| Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 | Events leading to Civil war - territorial exp (Comp1850),Fugitive Slave Act, KS-NE Act, Bleeding KS, Dred-Scott Case. Civil War-1861; Emancipation Proclamation 9/22/1862; Chivington Massacre-slaughter of indians for Land in Sand Creek CO; Lee sur Grant |
| Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 | Black Codes; Jim Crow laws; CRA 1866; 14th Amendment |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877 | 15th Amendment |
| Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881 | (blank) |
| James Abram Garfield 1881-1881 (6 months) | (blank) |
| Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885 | (blank) |
| Stephen Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 | (blank) |
| Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 | (blank) |
| Stephen Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 | JP Morgan rased $62 mil in Gold for Treasury; Plessy vs. Ferguson-seperate but equal, upheld separate. |
| William McKinley 1897-1901 | Maine explodes in Cuba harbor and Spain is blamed; 1898 begins Spanish/American War |
| Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 | Organized US steel Corp(1901); International Harvest Corp(1902); Northern Securities Corp; Rockefeller OIL; Vanderbilt RAILROAD; Carnegie STEEL; Panama Canal; Industrial workers for WWI; |
| William Howard Taft 1909-1913 | (blank) |
| Thomas Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 | (blank) |
| Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923 | (blank) |
| John Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 | (blank) |
| Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933 | Great Depression; Refused to do too much,thought the Government should not interfere. Federal Farm board; lent money to farmers in S, but would not permit relief. 1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corp. Banking Act of 1932. |
| Franklin Delanor Roosevelt 1933-1945 | 4 terms; New Deal;Administrations:(CCC),(AAA),(TVA),(HLC),National Recovery Admin,FDIC,(PWA),(CWA),(SEC),FHA,(WPA),(RA); Ended Depression, Entered WWII, New roads and buildings; Neutrality Act; CASH and CARRY; After attack on Pearl Harbor, was declared |
| Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 | Dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki;Japan surrendered in 1945;Truman Doctrine-$400 Mil in military aid to Greece and Turkey to keep communism out; Marshall Plan - to rebuild Europe. |
| Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 | Hawaii and Alaska admitted as states; Brown vs. Board of education (desegregation of schools); Yates vs. US -Supreme Court reinstates clear and present danger, standard in 1st amendment cases. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 | Civil Rights/Vietnam/Cuba; challenge to put a man on the moon; Cuban Missle Crisis; Berlin wall erected; threatenend war against Russia, missle treaty to outlaw nuclear testing in atmosphere; he was assassinated |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969 | civil rights/vietnam/war on poverty; 24th amendment - abolished poll tax; 1968 MLK murdered |
| Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974 | Watergate/opening of China; only president to resign; Ceasar Chevez-mex immigrant fought for = pay for imm. workers; NFWA later changed to UFW; he eventually gained bargaining agreements for workers.; 27th Amendment; Roe v Wade; Last troops return from VN |
| Geral Rudolph Ford 1974-1977 | (blank) |
| James Earl Carter, Jr. 1977-1981 | (blank) |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989 | End of Cold War; Berllin wall came down |
| George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993 | Iraq invaded Kuwail; Germany reunited; US drove Iraq from Kuwait |
| William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 | Balanced budget/impeached and acquitted |
| George Walker Bush 2001-2009 | 9/11 Attacks; War on Terrorism |
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