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United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
The Declaration announced that the thirteen American colonies[2] at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would now regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these states formed a new nation the United States of America. -
George Washington
He was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Washington was born into the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia to a family of wealthy planters who owned tobacco plantations and slaves, which he inherited. In his youth, he became a senior officer in the colonial militia during the first stages of the French and Indian War. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress. -
John Adams
John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the nation's sixth president. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was a direct descendant of Puritan colonists from the Massachusetts Bay.
In 1758 was admitted to the bar. In 1774, he served on the First Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state (1789-94); second vice president (1797-1801); and, as the third president (1801-09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson died in bed at Monticello on July 4, 1826. -
James Madison
Born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia, James Madison wrote the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist Papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights. He established the Democrat-Republican Party with President Thomas Jefferson, and became president himself in 1808. Madison initiated the War of 1812, and served two terms in the White House with first lady Dolley Madison and is known as the "Father of the Constitution." -
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The war or 1812
The War of 1812 (1812–1815) was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right. -
James Monroe
He was one of the great Presidents. What made him more special than all others is that he was a leader.
He held two cabinet post at one time under Madison, Secretary of State and Secretary of War during the war of 1812. He was the most well loved and admired Presidents in history. Admitted 5 states to the Union, Purchased the Florida Territory, which included Spain ceded Texas and Southwest US. Part of territory claimed in the Oregon Territory, last of the Founding Fathers. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War - its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
Abraham Lincoln is the reason the United States is still United and began the elimination of racism by ending slavery. To do this he began a largely unpopular but necessary war. This made him hated to the point where he was assassinated but he went through with his decision anyway. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
An honest politician, if there is such a thing. A man who actually cared about the average American citizen and the environment. He was brave in conflicts on the battlefield and in Washington. -
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
He was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina.
He created the Federal Reserve Act", you mean he passed the Federal Reserve Act in exchange for money from the private banks that make it up.
One of the most openly racist presidents. -
Calvin Coolidge
The greatest president of the 20th century. His demeanor brought the country together: blacks, whites, upper class, and lower class. Under his presidency, the United States saw the greatest economic expansion in its history. Not only that, but he normalized relations with Cuba, passed the Young and Dawes acts, which postponed World War II, limited the growth of government, and reduced taxes so the middle and lower classes were paying close to zero percent rates. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was an American statesman and political leader. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
He was so ahead of his time in his beliefs about how to properly handle the depression. In the 1920's. -
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party.
Truman acted based upon what he thought was right, not what would get him reelected. He integrated the military, helped found NATO and the UN, pus. -
John F Kennedy
Was an American politician who served as the of the United States from January 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building.
He's was the only Irish-Catholic president. An honest politician, if there is such a thing. A man who actually cared about the average American citizen and the environment. He was brave in conflicts on the battlefield and in Washington. -
Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Lyndon Baines Johnson, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
He expanded medicare and medicaid. HE fought for Civil Rights and waged the war on poverty. The only reason he gets a bad rep is because of the prolonged War in Vietnam. Which he didn't even inherit in the first place and its not as if you can immediately pull out of a military involvement without any forethought. He was great. Accept it. -
William Jefferson Clinton
William Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States . He previously served as governor of Arkansas . He became president after unseating incumbent president, George H . W Bush in 1992 . He was re-elected in 1996 after defeating Senator Bob Dole.The economy was BOOMING fantastically during this man's terms, and he knew how to work with both the Democratic and Republican party. Gas was cheaper than it ever was under George W Bush (and Barack Obama's first term. -
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9/11
Were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, both 110-story towers collapsed, A third plane, American Airlines Flight, was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County. The fourth plane, crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township. -
Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th president of the United States of America.
Obama Is probably the most underrated president since Lincoln. Right wing propaganda shows like Fox News make him out to be some sort of Antichrist, but any logical person who really looks back on what this man has done for our country so far can say that he has done pretty well. First and foremost, he is the first African president in a country infamous for racism and segregation, specially against blacks.
