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William McKinley (1897-1901) Republican
Vice Presidents: Garret Hobart and Theodore Roosevelt Major Legislation: Dingley Tariff (1897), Protects manufacturers from foreign competition. Gold Standard Act (1900), To fix the value of currency. Major Events: (1898) Led United States in Spanish-American war. (1900) Defeated Bryan in presidantial election. -
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) Republican
Vice President: Charles Fairbanks Major Legislation: Meat Inspection Act (1906) Banned misleading labels and preservatives that contained harmful chemicals. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Banned food and drugs that are impure or falsely labeled from being made, sold, and shipped. Major Events: Gentleman's Agreement (1907) banning all school segregation of Japanese, yet controlling Japanese immigration in California. (1902) mine Workers went on strike to get higher pay wages and shorter workdays -
William Howard Taft (1909-1913) Republican
Vice President: James Sherman Major Legislation: Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) Bill that lowered tariffs on goods that enter U.S. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) Prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive. Major Events: United States Chamber of Commerce (1912) to help rise labor movement at the time. He Vetoed a law passed by Congress and supported by labor unions that would have restricted unskilled laborers by imposing a literacy test. -
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Democrat
Vice President: Thomas Marshall Major Legislation: Federal Reserve Act (1913) set up the Federal Reserve System. Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law. Major Evants: Helped keep US out of war in Europe (1914-1917). Declared neutrality in 1914. -
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Republican
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge Major Legislation: Budget and Accounting Act (1921) established the framework for the modern federal budget. Packers and Stockyards Act (1921) prohibiting packers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices. Major Events: Blair Mountain miner war (1921) Angry miners took revenge. Teapot Dome scandal (1920-1923) Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and other locations in California to oil companies at low rates. -
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) Republican
Vice President: Charles Dawes Major Legislation: World War Adjusted Compensation Act (1924) Granted a benefit to the veterans. Immigration Act (1924) limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country. Major Events: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Indian Citizenship Act (1924) granted citizenship to all American Indians. -
Herbert C. Hoover (1929-1933) Republican
Vice President: Charles Curtis Major Legislation: Tariff Act of 1930, Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. Emergency Relief and Construction Act (1932) organized reconstruction finances. Major Events: Great Depression (1929) Economy collapsed terribly. Bonus Army (1932) A huge assembly that recognized the war veterans. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) Democrat
Vice Presidents: John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman Major Legislation: Emergency Banking Act (1933) allows only Federal Reserve-approved banks to operate in the United States of America. National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) president had to make attempt to stimulate economic recovery. Major Events: Second Bill of Rights (1944). Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) created minimum wage. -
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) Democrat
Vice President: Alben Barkley Major Legislation: National Security Act (1947)realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community after World War II. Housing Act (1949) large growth of the construction of public houses. Major Events: Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing (1945) US bombs Japan wiping out millions of people and tons of land. Strike Wave (1946) a series of massive post-war labor strikes. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Republican
Vice President: Richard Nixon Major Legislation: Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956) 25 billion dollars for the construction of 41,000 miles of Highways. Major Events: Hungarian Revolution (1956) nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies. Sputnik 1 (1957) Soviet Union launched this Satellite into space.
