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How Government & Politics have impacted Society
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Thomas Jefferson becomes President
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
Westward Expansion
President Thomas Jefferson had purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, which doubled the size of the United States. This effected society because it had increased the size of the United States which allowed more opportunity for people living in the country. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. This effected society because it became a huge increase to the size of our country. -
Twelfth Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment refined the process whereby a President and a Vice President are elected by the Electoral College. This effected society because it changed how voting is accounted for. -
James Madison becomes President
James Madison Jr. was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. This effected society because it had a major effect on the american public. -
James Monroe becomes President
James Monroe was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. This effected society because it had a major effect on the american public. -
Andrew Jackson becomes President
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. This effected society because it had a major effect on the american public. -
John Quincy Adams becomes President
John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative (Congressman) from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. This effected society because it had a major effect on the american public.; -
Martin Van Buren becomes President
Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
William Henry Harrison becomes President
William Henry Harrison Sr. was an American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812, and the ninth President of the United States. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
John Tyler becomes President
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly being the tenth Vice President; he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. This effected society because it became a major effect on the american public. -
James K. Polk becomes President
James Knox Polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives and Governor of Tennessee. This effected society because it became a major change to the american public. -
Zachery Taylor becomes President
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
Millard Fillmore becomes President
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
Franklin Pierce becomes President
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
Creation of Republican Party
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper mid-western states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. This effected society because it provided with more choices for the public to choose from. -
James Buchanan becomes President
James Buchanan Jr. was an American politician who served as the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. This effected society because it became a major change to the american public. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. This effected society because it became a major change for the american public. -
Conscription in the United States
More so known as the draft, had allowed men to sign up to join the army for war or during peaceful times. This changed society because it allowed men to fight for there country during times of war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order by Abraham Lincoln that freed all African American slaves in the United States. This had a effect on society because it gave freedom to African Americans, and changed the way we view others of different ethnicity. -
Andrew Johnson becomes President
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This effected society because it became a major change for the american people. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. This effected society because it freed slaves. -
Purchase of Alaska
the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. This effected society because it increased the size of our country. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. This effected society because it became a major change to the american public. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote. This effected society because it changed the lives of African american. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment, granted African-American men the right to vote, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. This effected society because it gave African Americans rights. -
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President
Rutherford B. Hayes was an American congressman, governor of Ohio, and the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended runaway slaves in court proceedings. This effected society because it was a major change to the american people. -
James A. Garfield becomes President
James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. This effected society because it became a major change to the american people. -
Chester A. Arthur becomes President
Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885; he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination. This effected society because it was a major change for the american public. -
Grover Cleveland becomes President
Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. This effected society because of the major change it had on the american public. -
Benjamin Harrison becomes President
Benjamin Harrison was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. This effected society because it was a major change to the american public. -
Antitrust Law
United States antitrust law is a collection of federal and state government laws that regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers. This effected society because they prevent business becoming monopoly and overcharging for there services. -
William McKinley becomes President
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. This effected society because of the major change there was to the american public. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. This effected society because many citizens were involved in this war. -
Open trade with China
Open Door policy, statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. This effected society because it provided us with new goods. -
Theodre Roosevelt becomes President
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. This effected society because it was a major change to the american public. -
William Howard Taft becomes President
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. This effected society because it became a major change to the american public. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. This effected society because it changed what congress can do. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. This effected society because it changed a bit on what congress can do. -
Woodrow Wilson becomes President
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. This effected society because it was a major change to the american public. -
Seventeenth Amendment
The 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. This effected society because it changed a bit on voting. -
Seventeenth Amendment
the 17th amendment of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. This effected society because it changed a bit on how voting works. -
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. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. This had an effect on society because it involved many of the citizens of america. -
National Park Service (NPS)
The National Park Service is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. This changed society because is provided protection to historical properties and also gave protection and guide for people who go to these parks. -
U.S. Revenue Act of 1916
This act had raised the income tax from one to two percent and also raised the top rate to fifteen percent. This change has effected society because the increase had changed the amount that tax payers had to give to the government. -
Prohibition in the United States
This was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. This had a major change on society because it effected many issues related to alcohol for the better and for the worse. -
Eighteenth Amendment
The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This effected society because it took away the use of alcohol. -
Woman's Right to Vote
This was passed by Congress and became the 19th Amendment to allow women the right to vote. This had effected society because it changed the amount of voter there were and gave women more rights than what they had before. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. This effected society because it gave women more rights than they had before. -
Warren G. Harding becomes President
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921, until his death in 1923. This effected society because it was a major change for the american public. -
Calvin Coolidge becomes President
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. This effected society because it was a major change to the american public. -
Border Patrol
The United States Border Patrol is an American federal law enforcement agency. Its mission is to detect and prevent illegal aliens, terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States, and prevent illegal trafficking of people and contraband. This effected society because it helped with issues of illegal immigrants, weapons, etc. -
Herbert Hoover becomes President
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. This effected society because it was a major change for the american people. -
Repealing Goal
A 1933 executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt forbidding persons and corporations in the United States from owning more than a token amount of gold. All gold over the legal limit was required to be sold to the federal government at a price of $20.67 per ounce. This effected society because many people were force to sell there gold. -
Twentieth Amendment
The 20th Amendment changed a portion of Article I, Section 4, and a portion of the 12th Amendment. This effected society because it changed one of the amendments that we were use to. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr., often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. This effected society because it was a big change for the american public. -
Repeal Prohibition
The repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. This effected society because it got rid of prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
Twenty-first Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. This effected society because it allowed people to drink alcohol again. -
Federal Communication Commission (FCC)
FCC is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute, to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. They work towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself. This had effected society because it changes the regulations of communication -
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government. Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was founded as a Cabinet department as part of the "Great Society" program of President Lyndon Johnson, to develop and execute policies on housing and metropolises. This changed society because it provided help for those who own a home. -
Unemployment Insurance Act
The Department of Labor has oversight responsibility for the Unemployment Insurance programs operated in the 50 states. These states provide unemployment benefits to eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own, and meet certain other eligibility requirements. This effected society because it helped with those who are unemployed. -
Social Security Act
This had established a system of old-age benefits for workers, victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. This had effected society because it provided benefits for those who could not work. -
World War ll
World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries including all of the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: This effected society because many citizens had to be involved in this war. -
Harry S. Truman becomes President
Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This effected society because it was a big change for the american people. -
Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. This effected society because it changed some of our technology. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. This effected society because we eventually became involved in the war. -
Twenty-second Amendment
The Twenty-Second Amendment limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years. This effected society because it limit how long someone can be a president. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. This effected society because it was a big change for the american public. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the second Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. This effected society because we become involved in a different countries war. -
Interstate Highway Act
The bill created a 41,000-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways that would, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel. This effected society because it changed the way we travel in our country. -
John F. Kennedy becomes President
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. This effected society because it was a big change for the american public. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. This effected society because it became a big change for the american public. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
This act prohibited discrimination in public areas, provided integration in schools and made employment discrimination illegal. This changed society because it changed the public environment and provided more equality to those of different ethnicities. -
Medicaid
A program created by the federal government, but administered by the state, to provide payment for medical services for low-income citizens. This effected society because it helped that couldn't afford medical bills. -
United States Department of Transportation (DOT)
DOT is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation. It focused on the design of how transportation should work in certain areas such as subways or roadways. This effected society because it changed the way we travel to destinations. -
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
NTSB is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, they investigate and report on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents, and railroad accidents. This effected society because it helped improve safety when it came to transportation. -
Richard Nixon becomes President
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.This effected society because it was a new change for the american people. -
Public Health Smoking Act
In 1969, the Public Health Smoking Act required all cigarette packaging contain warning statements on them. This effected society because people became more informed on the risks of smoking cigarettes. -
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. This changed society because it gave people a different view on how we should be treating society. -
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Its mission is to "assure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. This changed society because it provided people with a better working environment. -
Gerald Ford becomes President
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. This effected society it was a new change to the american public. -
Jimmy Carter becomes President
James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He previously was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, after two terms in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. This effected society because it was a new change for the american society. -
Global Positioning System (GPS)
The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government. It is a global navigation satellite system that provides geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth. This had effected society because it gave people an easier form of navigation. -
Ronald Reagan becomes President
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. This effected society because it was a new change for the american public. -
George H.W. Bush becomes President
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. This effected society because it was a new change for the american public. -
Gulf War
The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. This effected society because we had to fight against Iraq. -
Bill Clinton becomes President
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. This effected society because it was a new change for the american society. -
George W. Bush becomes President
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. This changed society because he became a new change for the people of America. -
Patriot Act
The Patriot act is an act of Congress signed into law in order to prevent any form of a terrorist attack after the events of September eleventh. This changed society because it increased the amount of security that there is in our lives. -
United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
DHS is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. This effected society because it provided more safety regulations in public areas. -
Iraq War
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. This had effected society because our soldiers became involved in this war. -
Barock Obama becomes President
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. This effected society because it became a new change of who was the leader of our country. -
HARP
The Home Affordable Refinance Program is a federal program of the United States, set up by the Federal Housing Finance Agency to help underwater and near-underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages. This effected society for homeowners that meet these requirements. -
Obamacare
Known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a way to provide health care to all citizens in the United States who could not afford it. This effected society because it helped those who couldn't afford healthcare but effected everyone else because it came from there money.
