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William Mckinley #25
President: William McKinley (1897-1901) Republican
Vice President: Garret A. Hobart; Theodore Roosevelt
Major Legislation: (1) On June 16, 1897, William McKinley signed the Republic of Hawaii to the United States (2) Important act during McKinley's time was the Gold Standard Act where the U.S. was officially placed on a gold standard.
Major Events: (1) Hurricane devastates Galveston Texas it sets a model for a new city government. (2) The national Consumers League is founded. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks
Legislation: (1) The Sooner Act of 1902 was drafted to gain the right to build a canal to create a shipping route through what is now Panama. (2)The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 established the Food and Drug Administration.
Events: (1) the United States won a dispute with Great Britain over the boundary between lower Alaska and Canada (2) Roosevelt was able to keep the Germans from interfering with Venezuela in 1902 -
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William H. Taft
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Legislation: (1) The Publicity Act required political parties to account for the money spent on federal campaigns. (2) Dollar Diplomacy, which encouraged United States banks and businesses to make investments abroad.
Events: (1) The Union of South Africa was created.(2) The Titanic sank. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Legislation: (1) The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 established an Antitrust Commission with broad powers to enforce laws that further limited the power of large corporations. (2) The Underwood Tariff Act lowered tariffs on imported goods
Events: (1) World War 1 (2) Influenza Epidemic -
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Warren G. Harding
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Legislation: (1) Prohibition passed in the 1920's (2) The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 passed That reduced the amount of immigrants
Events: (1) Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party in his rise to power and prominence in Germany. (2) Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics. -
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Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Legislation: (1) the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which condemned war and made it a criminal act of aggression. (2) He also vetoed a bill that would have increased benefits for World War I veterans
Events: (1) Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in one season. (2) Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
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Herbert Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Legislation:(1) Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.(2) Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was to have Indians acting as individuals (not as tribes) and to assume the responsibilities of citizenship
Events: (1) The Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office. (2) the great depression started -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vice Presidents: John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
Legislation: (1) The New Deal was a variety of programs designed to produce relief, recover, and reform.(2) Cullen–Harrison Act redefining 3.2% alcohol as the maximum allowed.
Events: (1) World War 2 (2) Great depression. -
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Harry S. Truman
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley
Legislation:(1) Passed the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. (2) the Housing Act of 1949
Events:(1) the U.S. successfully concluded World War II (2) The start of the Cold War. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President:Richard Nixon
Legislation: (1) Atomic Energy Act encouraged peaceful use of nuclear power via amendments. (2) the National Defense Education Act established a strong science education
Events: (1) Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957 (2) The Interstate Highway System Was Proposed -
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John F. Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Legislation: (1) The African-American Civil Rights Movement was the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination. (2) established the Alliance for Progress which sent aid to troubled countries.
Events: (1) Bay of Pigs Invasion (2) The building of the Berlin Wall -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
Legislation: (1) Jim Crow laws in which blacks were excluded because of poll taxes to vote (2) Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.
Event: (1) The assassination of John F. Kennedy (2) Vietnam war escalated. -
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Richard Nixon
Vice President: (1) Spiro Agnew,Gerald Ford
Legislation: (1) the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union (2) SALT I the first comprehensive limitation pact
Events: (1) the lunar landings beginning with Apollo 11 (2) The war resulted in the 1973 oil crisis -
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Gerald Ford
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller
Legislation: (1) Ford issued Proclamation 4311, which gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed. (2) Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, which established special education throughout the United States.
Events: (1) President Richard Nixon and his role in the Watergate scandal (2) Swine flu pandemic -
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Jimmy Carter
Vice President: Walter Mondale
Legislation: (1) The Airline Deregulation Act the main purpose of the act was to remove government control over fares. (2) The second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II)
Events: (1) Iran hostage crisis (2) the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -
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Ronald Reagan
Vice President: George H. W. Bush
Legislation: (1) the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 was signed into law (2) The Tax Reform Act of 1986 further reduced the top rate to 28%
Events: (1) Invasion of Grenada (2) The ending of the Cold War -
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George H. W. Bush
Vice President:
Legislation (1) including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which gave disapled people benefits (2) Clean Air Act, requiring cleaner burning fuels.
Events: (1) the Berlin Wall fell (2) the Soviet Union dissolved -
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Bill Clinton
Vice President: Al Gore
Legislation: (1) the North American Free Trade Agreement which eliminated barriers to trade and invest between the US, Canada and Mexico. (2) the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children.
Events: (1) Assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden (2) The Battle of Mogadishu occurred in Somalia in 1993 -
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George W. Bush
Vice President: Dick Cheney
Legislation: (1) the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2) the No Child Left Behind Act which made it much hard for kids to stay back a grade.
Events: (1) Twin Towers are attacked (2) War starts in middle east -
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Barack Obama
Vice President: Joe Biden
Legislation: (1) the Budget Control Act of 2011 which was to resolve the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis (2) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. It provided for repeal of the DADT policy
events: (1) Assassination of Osama Binladen (2) NASA deploys largest space craft to ever land on another planet