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George washington
First President of the United States
First President to receive votes from every Presidential elector in an election -
Suffrage Movement
The demand for women's suffrage emerged as part of the broader movement for women's rights. -
John Adams
First President to live in the White House
First President to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country -
Thomas Jefferson
First President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C
First President to have previously been a Governor. -
James Madison
First President to have served in the United States House of Representatives
First President to ask Congress for a Declaration of War.
First President to serve as a war-time Commander-in-Chief.
First President to have an Inaugural ball -
James Monroe
First President to have served in the United States Senate.
First President to have a child marry at the White House (His daughter Mary married in 1820 at the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House).
First President to ride on a steamboat -
Temperance Movement
The Temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize alcohol intoxication, promote complete abstinence -
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Temperance Movement
A social moment against the consumption of alcohol. -
John Quincy Adams
First President to be the son of another President (He was the son of John Adams).
First President whose father lived to see him become president (His father, former President John Adams, was still alive when he took office, and died in 1826).
First President to have a son marry at the White House (His son John Adams II married in the Blue Room on February 25, 1828.)
First President elected despite receiving less votes than his opponent -
Andrew Jackson
First President born in a log cabin.
First President born in the Carolinas (Place of birth disputed between North and South Carolina).
First President born to immigrant parents (His parents and two brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1765).
First President born after the death of his father -
Martin Van Buren
First President born a citizen of the United States, rather than a British subject.
First President born in New York state.
First President born after the Declaration of Independence. -
John D. Rockefeller
ohn Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. -
William Henry Harrison
First President elected as a Whig to the Presidency.
First President from Ohio.
First President to receive more than one million votes in a single election. He received 1,275,390 votes in the 1840 election.
First President to have 10 or more children. -
John Tyler
First President to ascend to the Presidency by the death of his predecessor.
First President to have a veto overridden.
First President to face a vote of impeachment in the House (it was unsuccessful).
First President to be widowed while in office. -
James K. Polk
First President to be elected to the office before reaching the age of 50.
First President to be under the age of 50 upon entering office.
First President to have served as Speaker of the House of Representatives -
Zachary Taylor
First President who had served in no prior elected office.
First President to serve in the Mexican-American War.
First President to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.
First President to win election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress -
Millard Fillmore
First President to establish a permanent White House library.
First President born in the 1800s.
First President born after the death of a previous President (Fillmore was born 24 days after the death of George Washington). -
Franklin Pierce
First President born in New Hampshire.
First President to install central heating in the White House.
First President born in the 19th century (November 23, 1804).
First President to deliver his inaugural address from memory. -
James Buchanan
First President born in Pennsylvania.
First President to be a bachelor.
First President to meet a member of the British Royal Family while in office. -
Abraham Lincoln
First President born outside of the original 13 colonies.
First President born in Kentucky
First President from Illinois.
First President to hold a patent.
First President to be photographed at his inauguration -
Andrew Johnson
First President to ascend to the Presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.
First President to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
First President to serve in the United States Senate after being President -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism -
Ulysses S. Grant
First President born in Ohio.
First President to have had a mustache.
First President educated at the United States Military Academy.
First President to have been a four-star general. -
Imperialism
Their influence, however, was limited. In the Age of New Imperialism that began in the 1870s, European states established vast empires mainly in Africa, but also in Asia and the Middle East. -
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Gilded Age
Its between the Civil War and World War 1. The population and economy grew rapidly. -
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Imperialism
USA expanded its influence into Africa and other areas of the world -
Rutherford B. Hayes
First President to hold a state Thanksgiving dinner.
First President to hold the White House Easter Egg Roll.
First President to have a telephone installed in the White House.
First President to have a typewriter installed in the White House. -
James A. Garfield
First President to be elected to the Presidency directly from the House of Representatives.
First President to be left-handed or ambidextrous.
First President to die before reaching the age of 50. -
Chester A. Arthur
First President born in Vermont.
First President to take the oath of office in his own home.
First President to have an elevator installed in the White House. -
Invention of Machine gun
The first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. -
Grover Cleveland
First President born in New Jersey.
First President to get married at the White House.
First President to have a child born in the White House.
First President to serve non-consecutive terms. -
Benjamin Harrison
First President to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.
First President to be a grandson of another President (W. H. Harrison)
First President to receive more than five million votes in a single election. -
Progressive
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s. The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government. -
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Progressive Era
A political movement that eliminated organization, industrialization, urbanization. -
William McKinley
First President to ride in an automobile. He rode with Freelan Oscar Stanley of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company in his steam car in 1899. He also rode in an electric ambulance that carried him to the hospital where he was treated after being shot.
First President to serve as Permanent Chairman of the Republican National Convention.
First President inaugurated in the 20th century. -
USS Maine Explosion
Exploded in Havana Harbor 268 men died and shocking the american populace. -
Sanish American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. -
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Spanish American War
War between Spain and America. The war began ove rthe way Spain treated Cuba. -
Theodore Roosevelt
First President born in New York City.
First President who ascended to the Presidency upon the death of a predecessor, who later was elected to the Presidency in his own right (He was elected Vice-President in 1900, ascended to the Presidency in 1901, and was elected in his own right in 1904).
First President (and first American) to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
William Howard Taft
First President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.Taft threw his pitch at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day. The pitch took place on April 14, 1910.
First President to own an automobile (He in fact owned four while in office) -
16th Amendment
Constitution of United States of America 1789 -
Woodrow Wilson
First President to have a Ph.D.
First President to visit Europe while in office (he visited France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Holy See (Vatican City, not yet a sovereign nation), and Belgium).
First President to meet with the Pope while in office. -
17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
Central Powers
The Central Powers, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria – hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance – was one of the two main factions during World War I. -
World War I
orld War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
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WW1
First World War against the central powers and Allies of America. America tried to stay neutral. -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. -
18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Gilded
The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s -
Roaring 20s
he Roaring Twenties was the period of Western society and Western culture that occurred during and around the 1920s -
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere. -
19th amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex -
Warren G. Harding
First President to win a post-1824 election with more than 60% of the vote. Harding won 60.3% of the vote.
First President to win in a post-1824 election with a margin of victory over 20%.
First President to be elected while being a sitting U.S. Senator. Harding was serving as a Senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis. -
Calvin Coolidge
First President to be sworn in by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr, following the death of Harding.
First President to be sworn in by another President (William Howard Taft, who was Chief Justice at the time of the second inauguration of Coolidge in 1925).
First President to give a radio broadcast from the White House. -
Air Commerce Act
On this day in 1926, Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, placing in federal hands responsibility for fostering air commerce, establishing new airways, improving aids to navigation, and making and enforcing flight safety rules. -
Stock Market Crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. -
Herbert Hoover
First President born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.
First President to receive more than twenty million votes in a single election.[40] Hoover received 21,427,123 votes in the United States presidential election, 1928. The Hoover vote touched the high-water mark for all votes for a presidential candidate up to that time; 21,400,000 votes cast was an increase of more than 5,500,000 over the Coolidge vote of four years before. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Hollywood’s Golden Age (Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind, Snow White, Shirley Temple,
Golden Age of Hollywood. By the 1930s, Hollywood was one of the most visible businesses in America, and most people were attending films at least once a week. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
First President to serve more than two terms.Roosevelt won a record four presidential elections, and served four terms in office from 1933 to 1945. More precisely, Roosevelt served three full terms, and died 2 months and 24 days into his fourth term.
First President to be inaugurated on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment). His first inauguration took place on March 4, 1933. His second inauguration took place on January 20, 1937 and is the first inauguration to take place on that date. -
Concentration Camps built
From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were German Communists -
Nuremburg Law
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
Killing centers
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. -
World War II (Pacific and European)
The European theatre of World War II, also known as the Second European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and the Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the war with the Soviet Union conquering much of Europe along with the German unconditional -
Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. -
Cold War--Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. -
People moved to Ghettos
During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. -
Allied Powers
The main Allied powers were Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union. The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
Hawaii joins the union
Statehood became effective on August 21, 1959. Hawaii remains the most recent state to join the United States.