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Rutherford B. Hayes
President from 1877 to 1881. He was a Republican -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. -
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James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was a president for one year. He was a Republican. -
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Chester Arthur
He was the 21 president. He was a republican. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
It was signed by President Aurther. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of United States is a federal law established in 1883 that decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
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Grover Cleveland
He was the 22nd president. He was alsoa democrat. -
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Open Door Policy
An open door policy (as related to the business and corporate fields) is a communication policy in which a manager, CEO,MD, president or supervisor leaves their office door "open" in order to encourage openness and transparency with the employees of that company. -
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Open Door Policy
statement of principles initiated by the United States (1899, 1900) for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity -
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Benjamin Harrison
He was the 23rd president. He was also a republican. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
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Grover Cleveland
He was the 24th president. He was a democrat. -
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Williams Mckinley
He was the 25th president. He was a republican. -
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Spanish-American War
The spanish-american war was fought between the US and Cuba. It lasted only only six months. -
Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
The Wilmington coup d'état of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington race riot of 1898, began in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 and continued for several days. It is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics. -
Code Talkers
people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. -
Galvestion Hurricane of 1900
The Hurricane of 1900, also known as the Great Galveston Hurricane, made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States -
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Theodore Roosevelt
He was the 26th president. He was a republican. -
San Francisco EathQuake of 1906
struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI. Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days. -
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William Howard Taft
He was the 27th president. He was a republican. -
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Woodrow Wilson
He was the 28th president. He was the democrat. -
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WWI
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918 -
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The Great Mirgration
The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
19th Amendment
Ratified on August, 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment forbids voting rights discrimination anywhere in the United States based on sex. The amendment's adoption was the result of a nearly century-long campaign to allow women to vote. -
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Warren G. Harding
He was the 29th president. He was also a republican. -
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Calvin Coolidge
He was the 30th President. He was also a republican. -
Immigration Qutoa Act of 1924
Federal legislation that set immigration quotas for individual countries that were based on the number of foreign nationals living in the United States in 1890. -
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Herbert Hoover
He was the 31st president. He was also a reoublican. -
The Great Depression
The depression originated in the United States, after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday). The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries rich and poor. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Tariff Act of 1930, otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
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FDR
He was the 32nd and most effective president. He was also a democrat. -
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WWII
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. -
Lend-Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article. -
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WAVES
the women's section of the US Naval Reserve, established in 1942, or, since 1948, of the US Navy. -
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Harry S. Truman
He was the 33rd president. He was also a democrat. -
Truman Doctrine -
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
National Security Act
a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War -
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Berlin Blockade
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
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Dwight D. Esienhower
He was the 34th president. He was also a republican. -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam -
Interstate Highway System
The Interstate Highway System was authorized on June 29, 1956 by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression, and the Kadesh Operation was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. -
Hungary Invasion
a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and invaded Central and Eastern Europe. -
Sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
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JFK
He was the 35th president. He was also a democrat. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th president. He was also a democrat. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 s a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
Immigration Act of 1965
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 also known as the Hart–Celler Act, abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. -
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Richard Nixon
He was the 37th president. He was also a republican. -
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Gerald Ford
He was the 38th president. He was also a republican. -
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Jimmy Carter
He was the 39th president. He was also a democrat. -
McKinley Tariff
The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, sponsored by William McKinley, a Republican Senator from Ohio, increased the tariffs on manufactured goods to as high as 49 percent. -
Election of 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The contest was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. -
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Ronald Reagan
He was the 40th president. He was also a republican. -
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George H. W. Bush
He was the 41st president. He was also a republican. -
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Bill Clinton
He was the 42nd president. He was also a democrat. -
Election of 2000
In Bush v. Gore (2000), a divided Supreme Court ruled that the state of Florida's court-ordered manual recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election was unconstitutional. -
Patriot Act
that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. Its title is a ten-letter backronym (USA PATRIOT) that stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". -
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George H. Bush
He was the 43rd president. He was also a republican. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. -
Election of 2008
Democratic Party nominee Senator Barack Obama and running mate Senator Joe Biden defeated Republican Party nominee Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin. -
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Barack Obama
He is the 44th president. He is also a democrat.
