All the US presidents and something important about their term in office.
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| 289223336 | George Washington | Many of his actions set the precedent for future presidents including the determination that foreign policy was the domain of the president; the president should only serve two terms, and the creation of the President's Cabinet | |
| 289223337 | John Adams | We almost went to war with France | |
| 289223338 | Thomas Jefferson | He arranged the Louisiana Purchase from France and roughly doubled the size of our country | |
| 289223339 | James Madison | President during the war of 1812 (our second war with the British) | |
| 289223340 | James Monroe | Developed the a doctrine which stated that the Americas should be free of future European colonization. | |
| 289223341 | John Quincy Adams | Pushed for the construction of large public works (like canals), a national university and also thought we should sponsor more exploration of the world. He was all about science and learning. | |
| 289223342 | Andrew Jackson | He pushed Native Americans off the and on the reservations in the west. | |
| 289223343 | Martin Van Buren | He was opposed to slavery and did not want to annex Texas because it would add slave territory. Also, during his term in office the country experienced an economic depression. | |
| 289223344 | William Henry Harrison | He died of pneumonia a month after he gave his long inaugural address on a very cold day. | |
| 289223345 | John Tyler | Under his term in office Texas was annxed in 1845. He strongly believed in state's rights and his actions accidentally helped separate the south before the Civil War. | |
| 289223346 | James K. Polk | He was president during the Mexican American War. | |
| 289223347 | Zachery Taylor | He was an independent type of president and ticked off members of both parties. He did stand up against southern leaders who threatened secession. | |
| 289223348 | Millard Fillmore | He tried to compromise our way out of the coming Civil War (compromise of 1850) and as a result no-one was really satisfied - and of course the war happens anyway. | |
| 289223349 | Franklin Pierce | Passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which reopened the free vs. slave stat conflict. | |
| 289223350 | James Buchanan | Tried very hard to balance the desires of the south with those of the north. Towards the end of his term he became ineffective. | |
| 289223351 | Abraham Lincoln | The Civil War was fought while he was president. | |
| 289223352 | Andrew Johnson | Pardoned southerners who would take an oath of allegiance and gave many special presidential pardons to confederate leaders. | |
| 289223353 | Ulysses S. Grant | As former general he was known for being honest, his administration was known for being very corrupt. | |
| 289223354 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Tried to seriously reform corruption in the federal government. | |
| 289223355 | James Garfield | Assassinated the year he became president. | |
| 289223356 | Chester Arthur | Helped pass the Pendleton Act which made many government positions only available through a competitive system of written examinations and protected employees from removal due to "political reasons". | |
| 289223357 | Grover Cleveland | He was the first democrat elected since the Civil War. He used the president's veto power to deny special treatment to specific economic groups such as farmers or veterans. | |
| 289223358 | Benjamin Harrison | Signed the Sherman Antitrust act, which was the first baby step toward cleaning up the problems related to big business and industry at the time. | |
| 289223359 | Grover Cleveland | Focused on making government positions merit based and more efficient. He was not an activist president and felt most power should be held by the legislative branch. | |
| 289223360 | William McKinley | The Spanish American war was fought while he was in office. | |
| 289223361 | Theodore Roosevelt | Passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. Pushed for the construction of the Panama Canal. He wanted to limit the power of monopolies and trusts. | |
| 289223362 | William Howard Taft | He ended more monopolies and trusts than Roosevelt. He was committed to expanding United States trade abroad. | |
| 289223363 | Woodrow Wilson | He campaigned with the slogan "He kept us out of war." A few years later we were in WWI anyway. | |
| 289223364 | Warren G. Harding | A nice guy, but his term was marked by scandal, in particular the "Teapot Dome" scandal. | |
| 289223365 | Calvin Coolidge | He believed that the answers to America's problems lay in the past. He supported big business and is quoted as saying "the business of America is business." He was NOT a progressive. | |
| 289223366 | Herbert Hoover | The economy sours and enters the Great depression in his first year in office. At first Hoover waits to see if the economy will self correct; it doesn't. After a while he steps in with some policies to help, but too little too late. | |
| 289223367 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | He was president for most of the Great Depression and during World War II. He greatly expanded the Federal Government. | |
| 289223368 | Harry Truman | The economy staggers back onto its feet, the Korean War starts and he supports the struggling Civil Rights Movement. | |
| 289223369 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | The Interstate highway system initiated during his term in office. Sent US Army to integrate Little Rock Central High School. | |
| 289223370 | John F. Kennedy | President during the Cuban missile crisis. | |
| 289223371 | Lyndon B. Johnson | The Vietnam War was fought and continued to rage. | |
| 289223372 | Richard M. Nixon` | While ramping down the Vietnam War, he reached out to communist China and Russia. | |
| 289223373 | Gerald Ford | He pardoned Nixon and tried unsuccesfully to fight inflation. He was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. | |
| 289223374 | James Carter | Elected as a "Washington Outsider" he is now seen as being ineffectual. Inflation and rising gas prices slowed our economy. Iran captured Americans from the Embassy and held them hostage for over a year Carter tried to get them back with a military operation, but that failed. | |
| 289223375 | Ronald Reagan | The Cold war came to an end during his term in office, in part because of all the military spending he pushed for. | |
| 289223376 | George H.W. Bush | Pushed Iraq out of Kuwait with military force. | |
| 289223377 | William Jefferson Clinton | He expanded controversial free trade agreements across the globe and worked to end ethnic disputes in Somalia, Haiti, and Eastern Europe. | |
| 289223378 | George W. Bush | His presidency was defined by the attacks on 9/11 and his military response to those attacks. | |
| 289223379 | Barack H. Obama | Under his term much of the military was withdrawn from the Middle East. He also pushed for and achieved ambitious healthcare "reform". |
