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President William McKinley was elected into office, vice president was Gamet Hobart.
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Raised custom duties 57%, this was on linens, wool, China, and sugar.
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McKinley lead the nation to victory on August 25th, 1898; this helped to free Cuba. The war lasted from April 25th- August 25th, 1898.
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Prohibited interstate carriers from discriminating against union laborers.
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Was shot at 4:07 p.m. by Leon Czolgosz with a .32 caliber Iver-Johnson revolver.
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McKinley is Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz. Died of his wounds.
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Was the vice president in 1900 of William McKinley. Was put into office in 1901 after McKinley's death.
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Theordore Roosevelt was 42 when sworn in; this made him the youngest president at the time.
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Passed to provide for the construction of the canal.
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The first Vice-President to be elected into presidency, along with this he had the largest winning percentage.
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Allowed people to settle on land primarily suited for agriculture.
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Was elected into office. James Sherman was his Vice-President.
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Empowered interstate commerce commision to suspend railroad rates and set rates.
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This allowed one bank in each state, under federal supervision, to give two percent interest on accounts under $500.
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U.S. battleships are sent to Nicaragua to protect American economic interests and rail lines.
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U.S. Marines are sent to restore order in Santo Domingo.
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Beat out William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Wilson wins the electoral college with 435 votes to TR's 88 and Taft's 8. His Vice-President is Thomas Marshall.
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This established 12 regional reserve banks.
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Congress establishes Mother's Day as the second Sunday in May.
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Germany launches war on Belgium, France, and Great Britain. The United States declares its official neutrality as the Great War begins.
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Endeared for labor/ farmers not protected under the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
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Elected into office, his Vice-President is Calvin Coolidge.
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Limited the number of immigrants from any country to 3%.
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Gave the president control over the Executive Branch.
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Died with his wife by his side in a Hotel room in San Francisco.
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Sworn into office at 2:30 in the morning after Harding's death. His Vice-President was Charles Dawes.
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The Act reduces income taxes as well as other duties.
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France and the United States sign an agreement that eventually cancels sixty percent of the French debt from the Great War.
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The U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to quiet a revolt. America military forces will maintain a presence in Nicaragua until 1933.
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This act gave the Commerce Department regulatory powers over sectors of the aviation industry, such as the licensing of pilots and aircrafts.
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Elected into office, vice president is Charles Curtis.
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The act creates the Federal Farm Board, designed to promote the sale of agricultural products through cooperatives and stabilization corporations.
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The London Naval Treaty is signed by the United States, Britain, and Japan.
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The act consolidates all existing federal agencies handling benefits for former servicemen into a single department.
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It is merely the largest of the more than 1300 bank closings across the country as the economic depression worsens.
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Elected into office, vice president is John Garner.
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The NLB is created to enforce the right of organized labor to bargain collectively.
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FDR signs the Home Owners Loan Act, a bill designed to promote home construction
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The act guarantees pensions to Americans over the age of 65, establishes a system of unemployment insurance.
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Elected into office, vice president is Alben Barkley
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies following a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Truman signs the Employment Act.
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Truman signs the Housing Act, establishing a national housing agency and providing federal aid to slum clearance programs and low-cost housing projects
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The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb.
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Elected as President, vice president is Richard Nixon,
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Eisenhower signs the Submerged Lands Act
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Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court
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Eisenhower suffers a "moderate" heart attack in Denver, Colorado.
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Eisenhower signs the Social Security Act, permitting women to retire at age sixty-two and disabled workers at age fifty.
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Elected President, vice president was Lyndon B Johnson
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Provided federal funds for construction in urbal areas.
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Established to aid developing nations around the world.
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Agreement with Soviets to ban above-ground nuclear testing.
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JFK is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Sworn in as President after JFK's assassination. Vice president is Hubert Humphrey.
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The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, abolishing poll taxes.
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Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, creating the Office of Economic Opportunity and beginning the War on Poverty.
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Johnson sends U.S. marines to the Dominican Republic to protect U.S. citizens after a military coup.
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Nixon is sworn into office as President, and his vice president was Spiro Agnew.
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Nixon announces a plan to withdraw 25,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam by August 31.
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Nixon signs the Selective Service Reform bill, ensuring that draftees are selected by a lottery system.
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Nixon approves and signs the Postal Reorganization Act, which establishes an independent United States Postal Service
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Nixon admits responsibility for the Watergate affair on television, but continues to assert no prior knowledge of it.
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Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as the thirty-eighth President of the United States, vice president was Nelson Rockefeller.
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Ford forms the Economic Policy Board, which will oversee all aspects of economic policy.
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Ford signs the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974, the most significant attempt at campaign finance reform since the 1920s.
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Ford signs the Privacy Act of 1974, ensuring the right of Americans to individual privacy.
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Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco.
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Carter is inaugurated the thirty-ninth President of the United States, vice president was Walter Mondale.
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Carter invokes the Taft-Hartley Act to end a strike by coal miners.
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Carter approves development of the MX missile.
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Carter signs the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the USSR.
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Carter announces that the economy is in recession, with the inflation rates hitting ten percent and interest rates climbing to eighteen percent.
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Inaugurated as President, vice president is George Bush.
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Reagan is shot in the chest by John Warnock Hinckley Jr.
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Fifty-two American hostages held in Iran since November 1979 are released.
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Reagan signs the Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA).
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Reagan signs the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction bill.
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Inagurated as President, vice president was Dan Quale.
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President Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, which affects over 43 million Americans and forbids discrimination in employment, public accommodations, and transportation.
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President Bush signs the Immigration Act of 1990, the most extensive revision to immigration law in more than a half century.
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The Persian Gulf War, code-named Operation Desert Storm, begins with a massive, American-led air attack on Iraq.
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The Labor Department announces that the unemployment rose to 7.1 percent in December 1991, the highest mark in over five years.
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Inaugurated as President, vice president is Al Gore.
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President Clinton signs the Brady Act, which requires a potential handgun purchaser to wait five days while a background check is performed by law enforcement officers
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The last American marines leave Somalia.
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President Clinton signs the Congressional Accountability Act, requiring Congress to abide by the same anti-discrimination workplace rules that apply throughout the rest of the country.
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President Clinton orders a cruise missile strike against Iraq after Saddam Hussein leads a siege against the Kurdish city of Irbil in northern Iraq.
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Inaugurated as President, vice president is Dick Cheney.
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President Bush signs a landmark education reform bill into law. Known as the No Child Left Behind Act, it offers local authorities greater flexibility in spending federal dollars, but requires standardized math and reading tests.
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The seven-member crew of the shuttle Columbia dies in an explosion in space. Debris falls in Texas.
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The 8:00 p.m. deadline for Hussein to leave Iraq passes. At 10:15 p.m., Bush addresses the nation and informs the American people that the United States is at war with Iraq.
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Bush signs into law a ban on late-term abortion, the first law to ban an abortion procedure since the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court later upholds the ban.
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Inaugurated as President, vice president is Joe Biden.
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HIRE stands for Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment and provides payroll tax breaks and incentives for businesses to hire unemployed workers.
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Obama announced that the United States combat mission in Iraq was over.
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The law authorizes the creation of the Small Business Lending Fund Program administered by the Treasury Department to make capital investments in eligible institutions.
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Obama declares Osama Bin Laden was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan.