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George Washington
First President of the United States
First President to appear on a postage stamp
First President to be a Freemason.
First President to receive votes from every Presidential elector in an election (in both the 1789 and 1792 elections; each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate)
First President to add "So help me God" to the Oath of Office.
First President to command a standing field army while in office -
Baseball
Baseball is a sport that began in the eastern United States in the 1800s. It became known as the "national pastime," a game that millions of people continue to enjoy each spring and summer. Major league baseball recently opened its new season -
John Adams
First President to live in the White House.
First President to have previously served as Vice-President.
First President to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country.
First President elected as a Federalist.
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Thomas Jefferson
First President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
First President inaugurated in the 19th century.
First President to live a full presidential term in the White House.
First President elected as a Democratic-Republican.
First President to have previously been a Governor.
First President to have been Ambassador to France.
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James Madison
First President to have a Vice President die while in office
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. -
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Temperance movement
Is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages -
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.
First President to receive more than 200 electoral votes in a single election.
First President to have served as Secretary of War.
First President to issue a doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine. -
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.
First President to have facial hair. -
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 (His father died in February 1767, around three weeks before he was born).
First President elected as Democrat to the Presidency.
First President to have been a Major general. -
Martian 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.
First President who spoke a language other than English as his first language. (Dutch was his first language)
First President to be of the Dutch Reformed faith.
First President to have served as a State Attorney General, having served as Attorney General of New York from 1815 to 1819. -
William Henry Harrison
Died in office
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.
First President to be born in the same county as his Vice-President.
First President to not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court
First President to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words -
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.
First President to remarry while in office (to Julia Gardiner Tyler).
First President to have served as President pro tempore of the Senate.
First President to be born after the ratification of the United States Constitution. -
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 born in North Carolina (Andrew Jackson's birthplace is disputed between that state and South Carolina).
First President to be elected despite losing his states of birth and residence.
First President to be nominated by his party as a dark horse.
First President not to seek re-election upon the completion of his one term. -
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.
First President to reside in Louisiana. -
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).
First President to remarry after leaving office. He remarried in 1858 to Caroline Carmichael McIntosh.
First President to leave office while his father was alive. He left office in 1853 and his father Nathaniel Fillmore died in 1863. -
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.
First President who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party. -
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. (He met the future King Edward VII in 1860 during his tour of America).
First President to have his inauguration photographed. -
Abraham Lincoln
First President born outside of the original 13 colonies.
First President born in Kentucky
First President to hold a patent.
First President to be photographed at his inauguration.
First President to be assassinated.
First President elected as a Republican to the Presidency.
First President to be elected from the National Union party to the Presidency.
First President to receive more than two million votes in a single election. He received 2,218,388 votes in the 1864 election. -
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.
First President to have been mayor of a town, having been mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee.
First President to issue more than twenty vetoes
First President to have more than ten vetoes overridden. -
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Suffrage Movement
Aka. the women suffrage. Its the movement and protest from the women and their right to vote. -
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Glided Age
It's between the civil war and world war 1. The population and economy grew quickly. -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. -
Ulysses Grant
First President born in Ohio
First President educated at the United States Military Academy.[citation needed]
First President to have been a four-star general.
First President to have served as Commanding General of the United States Army, though Washington held a similar post under a different name.
First President to win by more than 500,000 votes.
First President to win more than 3 million votes in a single election. He received 3,013,421 votes in the 1868 election. -
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.
First President to have served as a University President. -
Ruthorford 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.
First President to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office.
First President to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote. [ -
Machine Gun
This rapid-firing weapon was known as the Gatling gun. The first Gatling guns were used in the American Civil War. These guns were rapid-firing, but they depended on the arm of the operator to crank out the bullets. In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the first machine gun. -
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.
First President to have been appointed to a non-cabinet or ambassadorial federal office, having been appointed Collector of the Port of New York by Ulysses S. Grant in 1871. -
Wizard of Oz
Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s. -
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Progressive Era
A political movement that eliminated organization, urbanization and industrialism. -
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Imperialism
Imperialism is an action that involves a country extending its power by the acquisition of territories. It may also include the exploitation of these territories, an action that is linked to colonialism. -
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. He received 5,443,892 votes in the 1888 election.
First President to have electric lighting installed in the White House.
First President to have his voice recorded.
First President from Indiana. -
Submarine
The Irish inventor John Philip Holland built a model submarine in 1876 and a full-scale version in 1878, which were followed by a number of unsuccessful ones. In 1896 he designed the Holland Type VI submarine, which used internal combustion engine power on the surface and electric battery power underwater. -
Grover Cleveland
First President born in New Jersey.
First President to get married at the White House.
First President to serve non-consecutive terms]
First President to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections
First President to veto more than 100 bills, veto more than 200 bills, veto more than 300 bills, or veto more than 400 bills. Counting both of his terms together, he is also the first President to veto more than 500 bills. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba -
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.
First President to have his inauguration filmed. -
Airplanes
Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane -
Theodore Roosevelt
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.[102] Roosevelt won the award in 1906, due to his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War
First President elected in the 20th Century. -
16 amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States -
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)
First President to serve in the federal judiciary, having served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
First President to receive the Silver Buffalo Award. -
JP Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
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 -
Poison Gas
On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. -
World war 1
World 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. -
Tanks
The history of the tank began in World War I, when armoured all-terrain fighting vehicles were first deployed as a response to the problems of trench warfare, ushering in a new era of mechanized warfare. Though initially crude and unreliable, tanks eventually became a mainstay of ground armies. -
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. -
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 -
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. It was adopted on August 18, 1920 -
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The Roaring 20's
This was a time of when the war ended and it was a time of piece and prosperity. -
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Jazz Age
Started in the 20's where dance and music became popular. Ended with the great depression. -
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Hollywood Golden Age
Classical Hollywood cinema, classical Hollywood narrative, and classical continuity are terms used in film criticism which designate both a narrative and visual style of film-making. -
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. Wilson met Pope Benedict XV in 1919, during a visit at Vatican City.
First President to meet a British monarch while in office, having met George V in 1918.
First President to appoint a Jew (Louis Brandeis) to the Supreme Court. -
Waren G Harding
First President to have been a Lieutenant Governor. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906.
First President to win by more than 5 million votes.
First President elected after women gained the right to vote.
First President to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile. The inauguration of Harding took place in 1921.
First President to learn to drive a car.
First President to visit Canada while in office. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment -
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.
First President to be filmed with sound recording.
First President to visit Cuba while in office. -
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Great Depressions
A time of struggle for everyone in America. -
Hoovervilles
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
Dust bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Bonus Army
Bonus Army was the name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 -
Herbert Hoover
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.
First President to have served as Secretary of Commerce. -
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Holocaust
When the Nazis invaded and put the Jewish people in concentration camps -
Nuremberg Laws
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 -
John D Rockefeller
John 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. Quote-Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. 1937 (death) -
Ghettos
Millions of Jews lived in eastern Europe. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, more than two million Polish Jews came under German control. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, several million more Jews came under Nazi rule. The Germans aimed to control this sizable Jewish population by forcing Jews to reside in marked-off sections of towns and cities the Nazis called "ghettos" or "Jewish residential quarters." -
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 -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism -
World War 2
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Concentration Camps
The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. -
Killing Centers
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting -
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression -
Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. -
War Admiral
War Admiral was an American thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century' in 1938. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 -
Cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
The K.K.K
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,