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From Virginia, No college, Commander and leader of 3 armies, No previous office, Parents: Mary Bell and Augustine, Before office was in the military, after he expanded his wealth.
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Granted Civil Rights and liberties to individuals.
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The bill of rights gets ratified.
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Large Tax rebellion due to whiskey taxes being placed.
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Washington helps sign for a national bank.
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Made it to where state legislatures don't have to hear cases against the state.
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Born in Massachusetts, Harvard educated lawyer, He was a negotiator/ peacemaker in the army, VP of Washington, Abigail Adams, He joined the House of representatives after presidency.
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11th amendment gets made constitutional.
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Deportation and citizenship laws
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Washington DC Gets made the nations capital
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Eased tensions with France
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Virginia, Attended college at 16, He was a colonel and was responsible for the Virginian militia, Adam's VP, No people, He was a lawyer, congressman, legislator, Slave owner to abolitionist. He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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Enabling Act Allowed Territories to become states.
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Congress Can declare things unconstitutional.
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Jefferson tasks Lewis and Clark to explore Louisiana.
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Virginian Who went to Princeton University And College of New Jersey. He was a colonel and commander of the Orange County Regiment. Secretary of state, and in the Representatives. After office went back to slave owning.
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The Cadore letter notifies the American minister in France that the Decrees of Berlin and Milan will be repealed, effective November 1, if Britain revokes its Orders in Council or if the United States bars trade with Britain.
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Madison orders the occupation of Florida thinking it was included with the Louisiana Purchase
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Leads to Religious Freedom Act.
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Increase manpower
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The War of 1812, the US declares war on Great Britain.
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From Colonial Beach, VA, Monroe went to William and Mary but ultimately dropped out for the army where he became a lieutenant Colonel. He was a governor and a secretary of war. He later had financial difficulties and died on independence day.
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Born in Massachusetts. Attended Harvard. Head of War board. He was a secretary of state. Son of John Adams then went to the House of representatives until he died.
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Born In the Carolinas, he was a Senator and in House of Representatives, He also served as Governor in the military. He didnt have much education and retired to Hermitage.
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Born in Ney York, and later attended Village Schools. He was a VP and Secretary of State under Jackson. He failed to be re elected and later died
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born at Berkeley and attended Sydney College Served as Governor but ultimately died 32 days into office.
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Born in Virginia, attended the college of william and mary. He was in the House of Representatives before and after and died serving.
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James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839 and the ninth governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841
He had the Potato Famine 1845
Manifest Destiney 1845
Made Texas a state in 1845.
War with mexico in 1846
Made Iowa a state in 1846
Gold Rush in 1846
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Zachary Taylor was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War.
Compromise 1850
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Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office.
Made California a State
Fugitive Slave Bill
Compromise of 1850
National Women's Rights Convention
Treaty with El Salvador
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Franklin Pierce was an American politician who served as the 14th president of the United States from 1853 to 1857.
Gadsden Purchase 1853
Treaty of Kanagawa 1853
Kansas Nebraska Act
Wakarusa War
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James Buchanan Jr. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, as the secretary of State from 1845 to 1849, and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
Silver Strike in Nevada
Dred Scott decision
English Bill
Harpers ferry Raids
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Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Confederate states organized
Fort Sumter
Morrill Tariff
Bull Run Battle
Battle of Antietam Creek
Emancipation proclamation
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
National Banking Act
Gettysburg Address
Reelection
Thirteenth Amendment
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Andrew Johnson was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
Adjusting terms of surrender
Johnson grants amnesty
Black Code
Extending the Freedmen's Bureau
Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act
Fourteenth Amendment
First Reconstruction Act
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Ulysses S. Grant was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war
Transcontinental railroad completed
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Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins
Fifteenth Amendment
Creation of the Department of Justice
The Federal Election Law
Indian Appropriation Act
First civil service commission
Ku Klux Klan Act
Treaty of Washington
Great Chicago Fire
Specie Resumption Act
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American military officer and politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican, Hayes served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. As an attorney in Ohio, Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861.
Civil service reform
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Knights of Labor
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Chester Alan Arthur was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield
Star-Route Scandal
Edmunds Act Passes
U.S. recognizes Korean Independence
Civil Service Reform Act
Brooklyn Bridge opens
Statue of Liberty presented
U.S.-Mexico Convention
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death the following September after being shot by an assassin in July.
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms
Presidential Succession Act
American Federation of Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dawes Act
Tenure of Office Act of 1867
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Benjamin Harrison was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
First Pan-American Conference
Washington becomes a state
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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The Panic of 1893
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William McKinley was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades.
First Boston Marathon
Dingley Tariff Law
Maine explodes
Volunteer Army Act
Congress declares war on Spain
Erdman Arbitration Act
War Revenue Act
The Treaty of Paris
Annexing Hawaii
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Newlands Reclamation Act
Isthmian Canal Act
Philippine Government Act
Elkins Anti-Rebate Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
National Monuments Act
Hepburn Act
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
Immigration Act of 1907
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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act
Postal Savings Bank Act
Mann Act
Dissolution of Standard Oil
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election.
Declaration of War
Webb Alien Land-Holding Law
Seventeenth Amendment
Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act
Completing the Panama Canal
Federal Reserve Act
Smith-Lever Act
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National Defense Act
Federal Farm Labor Act
Adamson Eight-Hour Act
The Zimmermann Telegram
Selective Service Act
Espionage Act
Eighteenth Amendment
Sedition Act
Nineteenth Amendment
Volstead Act
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was an American politician who served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents
Emergency Quota Act
Emergency Tariff Act
Budget and Accounting Act
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act
Capper-Volstead Act
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Calvin Coolidge was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer who climbed the ladder of Massachusetts politics, becoming the state's 48th governor.
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression
Agricultural Marketing Act
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Veterans Administration Act
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
“fireside chat”
Relief Act
Federal Securities Act
Tennessee Valley Act
Gold Reserve Act
Home Owners Loan Act
Securities Exchange Act
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
Communications Act
Soil Conservation Service
Social Security Act
Revenue Act
Neutrality Act
National Housing Act
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Neutrality Act of 1939
Alien Registration Act
Selective Training and Service Act
Lend-Lease Act
Emergency Price Control Act
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Germany surrenders
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Employment Act of 1946
“Truman Doctrine” speech
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
National Security Act
Berlin Airlift
Housing Act
Revenue Act of 1950
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Dwight Eisenhower was an American military officer who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare created
Submerged Lands Act
Refugee Relief Act of 1953
Federal Highway Act
Social Security Act of 1956
Civil Rights Act of 1957
National Defense Education Act
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president.
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F.
Twenty-Fourth Amendment ratified
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Economic Opportunity Act
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Nixon Withdraws Vietnam
Men land on the moon
Nixon Doctrine
Selective Service Reform
Aims to end segregation
Postal Service
Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970
Emergency Employment Act
Watergate Scandal
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973, Nixon's Vice.
Ford pardons Nixon
Tax hike and spending cuts
Federal Elections Campaign Act
Freedom of Information Act passed
Privacy Act of 1974
Tax Reduction Act of 1975
Energy Policy Conservation Act
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James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.
Emergency Natural Gas Act
Carter visits Shah of Iran
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
American hostages held in Iran are released
Cutting taxes
Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act
Gas tax increase
Farm credit crises
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George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Berlin Wall Falls
New Anti-Drug Law
Arms Reduction Agreement
Americans with Disabilities Act
Immigration Act of 1990
Persian Gulf War Begins
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William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992.
Family Medical Leave Act
Explosion at the World Trade Center
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
Brady Act
Congressional Accountability Act