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George Washington
Whiskey Rebellion
Jefferson–Hamilton feud
led the american revolution
Funding Act of 1790 and the Residence Act, both of which Washington signed into law. Congress authorized the assumption and payment of the nation's debts, with funding provided by customs duties and excise taxes -
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John Adams
Failed peace commission and XYZ affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Quasi-War
Fries's Rebellion
Federalist divisions and peace
Establishing government institutions and move to Washington -
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Thomas Jefferson
First Barbary War
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson refuted the contemporary notion that Indians were inferior and maintained that they were equal in body and mind to people of European descent -
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James Madison
War of 1812
Madison said the federal government's duty was to convert Native Americans by the "participation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible in a civilized state" -
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James Monroe
Treaties with Britain and Russia
Acquisition of Florida
South American Wars of Independence
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Panic of 1819 -
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John Quincy Adams
Tariff of 1828
Adams sought the gradual assimilation of Native Americans via consensual agreements, a priority shared by few whites in the 1820s. Yet Adams was also deeply committed to the westward expansion of the United States. Settlers on the frontier -
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Andrew Jackson
Petticoat affair
Indian Removal Act
Nullification crisis
Bank War and Election of 1832
Removal of deposits and censure -
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Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837
Indian removal
Caroline episode
Patriot War of 1837–1838
Northern Maine: the Aroostook "War"
Amistad case: victory for the ex-slaves -
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William Henry Harrison
The press of patronage
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John Tyler
Tariff and distribution debate
New York Customs House reform
House petition of impeachment
Webster-Ashburton treaty
Oregon and the West
Dorr Rebellion
Tyler brought the long, bloody, and inhumane Seminole War to an end in May 1842, in a message to Congress. Tyler expressed interest in the forced cultural assimilation of Native Americans. -
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James K. Polk
Partition of Oregon Country with Britain
Annexation of Texas
Mexican-American War
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Fiscal policy -
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Zachary Taylor
Sectional crisis -
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Millard Filmore
couldn't find a whole lot tbh -
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Franklin Pierce
Bleeding Kansas
Pierce charged Treasury Secretary James Guthrie with reforming the Treasury, which was inefficiently managed and had many unsettled accounts. Guthrie increased oversight of Treasury employees and tariff collectors, many of whom were withholding money from the government. -
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James Buchanan
Intervention in the Dred Scott case
Panic of 1857
Utah War
Transatlantic telegraph cable
Bleeding Kansas and constitutional dispute -
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Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Promoting General Grant -
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Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
impeachment -
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Ulysses S. Grant
Grant signed into law equal rights for black people, to serve on juries and hold office, in Washington D.C., and in 1870 he signed the Naturalization Act that gave foreign black people citizenship.
Gold corner conspiracy
Treaty of Washington
Korean expedition
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Cuba and Virginius Affair
Free trade with Hawaii
Federal Indian policy -
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Ruthurford B. Hayes
The South and the end of Reconstruction
Civil service reform
Great Railroad Strike
Currency debate
Great Western Tour of 1880 -
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James A. Garfield
Refinance of national debt
Civil rights and education
Foreign policy and naval reform -
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Chester Arthur
Civil service reform
Surplus and the tariff
Foreign affairs and immigration
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Grover Cleveland
refused to promote the previous administration's Nicaragua canal treaty, and generally was less of an expansionist in foreign relations.
He encouraged the idea of cultural assimilation, pushing for the passage of the Dawes Act
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Benjamin Harrison
appointed Theodore Roosevelt and Hugh Smith Thompson, both reformers, to the Civil Service Commission
Dependent and Disability Pension Act -
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Grover Cleveland
Economic panic and the silver issue
Having succeeded in reversing the Harrison administration's silver policy, Cleveland sought next to reverse the effects of the McKinley Tariff Cleveland had campaigned against the Lodge Bill, which would have strengthened voting rights protections through the appointing of federal supervisors of congressional elections upon a petition from the citizens of any district Pullman Strike -
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William Mckinley
Cuba crisis and war with Spain -
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Theodoor Roosevelt
Trust busting and regulation
Sherman Antitrust Act
Coal strike
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
United States Forest Service
Panic of 1893
Panama Canal -
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William Howard Taft
Dollar Diplomacy
United States occupation of Nicaragua
Taft continued and expanded Roosevelt's efforts to break up business combinations through lawsuits brought under the Sherman Antitrust Act, bringing 70 cases in four years
Ballinger–Pinchot affair -
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Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom domestic agenda
Revenue Act of 1913
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Keating–Owen Act
Neutrality in WWI 14 points -
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Warren G. Harding
Ending the war
Mellon's tax cuts
Federal Highway Act of 1921
Great Railroad strike of 1922
Eugene Debs and political prisoners -
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Calvin Coolidge
Federal Radio Commission
Radio Act of 1927
Revenue Act of 1924
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Indian Citizenship Act -
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Herbert Hoover
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
Federal Farm Board
quick response to Black Tuesday
Fiscal stimulus
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Revenue Act of 1932
Great Depression -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Emergency Banking Act
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Public Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act
.Glass–Steagall Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Works Progress Administration
National Labor Relations Board
Housing Act of 1937, a second Agricultural Adjustment Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act
Good Neighbor Act
Pearl Harbor and Declaration of war
Nuclear Program -
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Harry S. Truman
Dropping the Atomic bomb
Potsdam declaration
strike wave of 1946
National security act of 1947
Housing act of 1949
Truman Doctrine
National Security Agency
Berlin Airlift
Recognition of Israel
Korean War
Establishment of NATO -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
Buildup of a Nuclear stockpile
Start of the Space Race -
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John F. Kennedy
Food for Peace program
Peace Corps
Vienna Summit
Bay of Pigs
Operation Mongoose
Cuban Missile Crisis
Operation Red Hand
start of escalation of involvement in Vietnam
West Berlin Speech
Rice University speech
directly caused the moon landing
pushed and caused most of the civil rights laws in the 60s -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Full escalation of the Vietnam war
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Great Society
Voting Rights Act
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Public Broadcasting Act
Revenue Act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity Act
Gun Control Act of 1968
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Operation Rolling Thunder -
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Richard Nixon
Operation Menu
Bombing of Cambodia
SALT I
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
United States Postal Service
EPA
Clean Air Act of 1970
OSHA
National Enviromental Policy Act
increased funds of education and rehab
Philidelphia plan
Watergate Scandal -
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
Tax Reform Act of 1986
Black Monday
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
Project Socrates operated within the Defense Intelligence Agency
Depository Institutions Act deregulated savings and loan associations
War on Drugs
disproportionate imprisonment of people of color
Invasion of Grenada
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
Tax Reform Act of 1986 -
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George H. W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Barack Obama
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
White House Council on Women and Girls
White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
Obama signed 23 executive orders and outlined a series of sweeping proposals regarding gun control
increased restrictions on the National Security Agency
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Budget Control Act of 2011 -
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Donald J. Trump
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He reduced the budget for renewable energy research by 40 percent and reversed Obama-era policies directed at curbing climate change.
dismantled many federal regulations on health, labor, and the environment
made it easier for severely mentally ill persons to buy guns
Muslim Travel ban