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Woodrow Wilson
1913-1921 -Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
-He Believed in segregation, first president to get a PHD, new freedom was then name given to his proposed reforms, seventeenth amendmant ratified, espionage act and sedition act. -
Warren G. Harding
1921-1923
Domestic accomplishments-----
-Signed the first federal child welfare program
-Dealt with striking mining and railroad workers in the 1921 Blair Mountain miner war and Great Railroad Strike of 1922
-Cut the unemployment rate by half through higher tariffs, lower taxes, and an expansion of the tax base
-Advocated an anti-lynching bill to curb violence against African-Americans, although it failed to pass Congress
-Established the Veterans Bureau to handle veterans' -
Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929
Domestic accomplishments----
-Made a policy of keeping government out of the way of big business and generally disdained regulation
-Cut taxes through the Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, and 1928 and forged new alliances between government and business through Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Foreign policy accomplishments----
-Signed the Immigration Act restricting southern and eastern European immigration -
Herbert Hoover
1929-1933
Domestic accomplishments----
-Presided over the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression and initiated government economic recovery programs in the spirit of public-private partnerships that met with limited success
-Promoted public works efforts such as the Hoover Dam
Increased tariffs with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in order to encourage the purchase of American-made goods. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933-1945
Domestic accomplishments-----
-Pushed a record number of bills through Congress during his "First 100 Days" program to grant immediate relief to tens of millions of unemployed during the depths of the Great Depression
- Continued Hoover's Federal Emergency Relief Administration and created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Tennessee Valley Authority, which hired hundreds of thousands of unemployed men to work on rural local projects
