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Past Presidents
Can anybody list for me every past president and what they did in there time as the president? and any fact you can give me about all the past wars?
no reason, just for the sake of knowledge.
Thank you very much!!
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William Henry Harrison, 1841
Whig VP - John Tyler Secretary of State - Daniel Webster
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John Tyler, 1841-1845
Anti-Jackson Democrat ran as VP on Whig ticket Secretary of State - Daniel Webster Major Items:
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of the United States Canadian Border set at 45th parallel
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James K. Polk, 1845-1849
original “dark horse” candidate Democrat VP - Dallas Major Items:
Manifest Destiny Texas becomes a state, 1845 Oregon boundary settled, 1846 Mexican War, 1846-1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, 1848 Wilmot Proviso
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Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
Whig VP - Millard Fillmore
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Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
Whig Secretary of State - Daniel Webster Major Items:
Compromise of 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850 (Britain and U. S. agree not to expand in Central America if the canal is built) Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
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Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
Democrat VP - King Major Items:
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854 popular sovereignty Japan opened to world trade, 1853 Underground Railroad Bleeding Kansas Ostend Manifesto, 1854
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James Buchanan, 1857-1861
Democrat VP- Breckinridge Major Items:
Dred Scott decision, 1857 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Civil War, 1861-1865
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Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
Republican VP - Andrew Johnson Secretary of State - William H. Seward (New York) Secretary of Treasury - Salmon P. Chase Secretary of War - Edwin M. Stanton Major Items:
Civil War, 1861-1865 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Homestead Act, 1862 Morill Act, 1862 (created agricultural colleges) Assassinated April 14th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth
Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Andrew Johnson, 1865, 1869
Republican Secretary of State - William H. Seward Major Items:
13th Amendment, 1865 14th Amendment, 1868 Reconstruction Act, 1867 Tenure of Office Act, 1867 Impeachment Trial, 1868 Formation of KKK Adoption of Black Codes in the South
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Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
Republican VP - Colfax, Wilson Secretary of State - Hamilton Fish Major Items:
15th Amendment, 1870 First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 Tweed Ring Panic of 1873 Crédit Mobilier Whiskey Ring Indian Ring
Gilded Age, 1877-1900
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Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881
Republican VP - Wheeler Major Items:
Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinage of silver) Troops withdrawn from the South, 1877
wow ok…
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George Washington, 1789-1797
VP - John Adams Secretary of State - Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury - Alexander Hamilton Major Items:
Judiciary Act, 1789 Tariff of 1789 Whiskey Rebellion, 1799 French Revolution - Citizen Genét, 1793 Jay Treaty with England, 1795 Pinckney Treaty with Spain, 1795 Farewell Address, 1796 First Bank of United States , 1791-1811
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John Adams, 1797-1801
Federalist VP - Thomas Jefferson Major Items:
XYZ Affair, 1797 Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798 Naturalization Act "Midnight Judges," 1801 Kentucky (Jefferson) and Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, 1798
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Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
Republican VP - Aaron Burr Secretary of State - James Madison Major Items:
Marbury v. Madison, 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1805 12th Amendment, 1804 Embargo Act, 1807 Non-Intercourse Act, 1809
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James Madison, 1809-1817
Republican VP - George Clinton Secretary of State - James Monroe Major Items:
Macon Act, 1810 Berlin and Milan Decrees Orders in Council "War Hawks," 1811-1812 War of 1812 Hartford Convention, 1814 First Protective Tariff, 1816
Era of Good Feelings and the Era of the Common Man, 1815-1840
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James Monroe, 1817-1825
Republican VP - Tompkins Secretary of State - John Quincy Adams Major Items:
Marshall's Decisions: McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819; Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 Acquisition of Florida from Spain, 1819 Transcontinental or Adam-Oñis Treaty, 1819 Missouri Compromise, 1820 Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Sectional Tariff, 1824 Favorite Sons Election [Jackson, J. Q. Adams, Crawford, Clay], 1824
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John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
National Republican VP - John C. Calhoun Secretary of State - Henry Clay Major Items:
"Corrupt Bargain" Erie Canal, 1825 Tariff of Abominations Calhoun's Exposition and Protest, 1828
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Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Democrat VP - John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren Major Items:
Jacksonian Democracy Tariffs of 1832 and 1833 The 2nd Bank of the United States (due to expire in 1836) Formation of the Whig Party, 1832
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Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
Democrat VP - Richard M. Johnson Major Items:
Panic of 1837 Specie Circular, no Bank of the United States Unsound financing by state governments
Ante-Bellum Period, 1840-1860
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James A Garfield, March 4 to September 19, 1881
Republican VP - Chester A. Arthur Secretary of State - James A. Blaine Major Items:
Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau
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Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885
Republican Secretary of State - James A. Blaine Major Items:
Pendleton Act, 1883 (set up civil service commission)
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Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
Democrat VP - Hendricks Major Items:
Knights of Labor, 1886 Haymarket Riot, 1886 Interstate Commerce Act, 1887 Washburn v. Illinois, 1886
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Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
Republican VP - Morton 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
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Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
Second Administration (only President to serve two non-consecutive terms) Democrat VP - Stevenson Major Items:
Panic of 1893 Hawaiian incident, 1893 Venezuelan Boundary Affair, 1895 Pullman Strike, 1894 American Federation of Labor Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894
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William McKinley, 1897-1901
Republican VP - Garet Hobart, 1896-1900 VP - 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 McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, 1901
Progressive Age, 1900-1920
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908
Republican VP - Fairbanks Secretary of State - John Hay, Elihu Root Major Items:
Panama Canal, 1903-1914 "Square Deal" Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 Portsmouth Treaty, 1905 Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, 1904 Hague Conferences, 1899 and 1907 Hepburn Act, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers", 1906 Political reforms of the Roosevelt Era Trust-busting Coal Strike Conservation Venezuelan Debt Controversy, 1902 Dominican Republic Crisis, 1902 Algerian Conference over Morocco, 1906
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William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
Republican VP - Sherman Major Items:
Paine-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909 (conservation v. reclamation) "Dollar Diplomacy"
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Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
Democrat VP - Marshall Major Items:
Underwood Tariff, 1913 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments Federal Reserve System, 1913 Glassower Act, 1913 Federal trade Commission, 1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914 Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico The Lusitania, May 1915 "Fourteen Points," January 1917 Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920 "New Freedom"
Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929
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Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923
“Dark Horse” candidate Republican VP - Calvin Coolidge Secretary of State - Charles Evans Hughes Major Items:
Teapot Dome Scandal Washington Conference, 1921-1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922
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Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Republican VP - Dawes Secretary of State - Frank Kellogg Major Items:
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
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Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
Republican VP - Curtis Secretary of State - Henry L. Stimson Major Items:
National Origins Immigration Act, 1929 Panic and Depression Stock market Crash, 1929 Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930
The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1920-1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Democrat VP - Garner, Wallace, Truman Major Items:
New Deal "Alphabet soup" bureaucracies World War 2 Labor reforms
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Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
Democrat VP - Barkley Major Items:
World War 2 ends Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945 Taft-Harley Act, 1947 Truman Doctrine, 1947 Marshall Plan, 1947 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949 Korean War, 1950-1953 "Fair Deal"
The Cold War, 1945-1968
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961
Republican VP - Nixon Major Items:
22nd Amendment Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) Suez Crisis, 1956 Eisenhower Doctrine the "race for space" Alaska and Hawaii become states, 1959
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John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
Democrat VP - Lyndon B. Johnson Major Items:
Alliance for Progress Baker v. Carr, 1962 Peace Corps Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 "New Frontier" Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1968
Democrat VP - Humphrey Major Items:
The "Cold War" Cuban Policy Income tax cut Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1964 Voting Rights Act, 1965 Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 Elementary and Secondary education reform Medicare "Great Society"
Detente and Rapprochement, 1968 - present
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Richard M. Nixon, 1968-1974
Republican VP - Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford Major Items:
"Imperial Presidency" Landing on the moon, July 1969 Warren Burger, Chief Justice, 1969 Woodstock, August 1969 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established, 1970 16th Amendment, 1971 Visit to China, February 1972 Visit to Russia, May 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), 1972 Kissinger and "shuttle diplomacy," 1973-1975 Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973 Allende regime in Chile overthrown with the help of the CIA, September 1973 Agnew resigns, 1973 Nixon resigns, August 9, 1974 Pentagon Papers, August 30, 1971 (superior court allows the NY Times to publish)
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Gerald Ford, 1974-1976
Republican 1st appointed President VP - Nelson Rockefeller Neither President nor Vice-President had been elected Major Items:
Pardons Richard Nixon OPEC crisis, 1974
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Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981
Democrat VP - Walter Mondale Major Items:
Panama Canal Treaty signed, September 1977 Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan Three-Mile Island Incident, March 1979 (nuclear reactor leak in Pennsylvania) Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Prize, 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979 (rescue attempt, 8 killed, April 1980) Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets, 1979 "Stagflation" Boycott of Olympics in Moscow to protest invasion of Afghanistan
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Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989
Republican VP - George Bush Major Items:
Hostages returned Falkland Islands Crisis, 1982 (U. S. supports England) 1500 Marines sent to Beirut, 1983; withdrawn in 1984 Grenada, October 1983 Nicaragua, 1984 Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court "Supply-side economics" Iran-Contra Hearings, Summer 1987 (Oliver North)
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George Bush, 1989- 1993
Republican VP - Dan Quayle Major Items:
Savings and Loan Scandal, 1990 Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany Invasion of Panama, 1990 Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War), January to August 1992
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Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
Democrat VP - Al Gore Major Items:
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1993 Proposes a national health care system, 1993 Participates in air strikes in Bosnia, 1994 Participates in air strikes in Iraq Sex scandal, 1998 Participates in air strikes on Serbia, 1999
then duh george bush
Pequot War (1637) Iroquois War (1642-1653) King Philip’s War (1675-1676) King William’s War a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#1) (1689-1697) Queen Anne’s War a.k.a. War of the Spanish Succession a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#2) (1702) Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713) Dummer’s War a.k.a. Lovewell’s War (1721-1725) War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739-1742) King George’s War a.k.a. War of the Austrian Succession a.k.a. French and Indian Wars (#3) (1744-1748) French and Indian War (#4) a.k.a. Seven Years’ War (1754-1763, although some say 1756-1763) American Revolution (1763-1789) Whiskey Rebellion (1794) Tripolitan War (1801-1805) War of 1812 (1812-1814) Creek Indian War (1813-1814) War against Algeria (1815) First Seminole War (1817-1818) Black Hawk War (1832) Second Seminole War (1835-1842) The Alamo (1836) Battle of San Jacinto (1836) The Caroline Affair (1837-1842) Aroostock War (1838-1839) Antirent War a.k.a. Helderberg War (1839-1846) the Creole incident (1841-1842) Dorr’s Rebellion (1842) Catholic riots in Philadelphia (1844) War with Mexico a.k.a Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Wakarusa War (1855, 1856) Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) The Civil War (1861-1865) Irish riot of 1871 (1871) Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) Anti-Chinese Riots (1877) Nez Perce war (1877) Controversey of 1889 (1889) Sitting Bull (1890) mob in Valparaiso (1891) miners riot (1894) The Spanish American War (1898) Philippine-American War (1899) war with China (1900) World War 1 (1917-1918) World War 2 (1941-1945) Korean War (1950-1953) Vietnam War (1961-1973) Persian Gulf War (1991) geeze the facts would take me forever
wow…^thats a lot of words
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