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William McKinley
Vice Presidents: Garret Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt
Political Party: Republican
Major Laws and Legislation: Platt Amendment(1901), Open Door Policy(1899)
Major Events: Spanish-American War(1898), Annexation of Hawaii(1898) -
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William McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President: Charles Fairbanks
Political Party: Republican
Major Laws & Legislation: Acquistion of the Panama Canal(1903), Roosevelt Corollary(1904)
Major Events: Russo-Japenese War(1904-1905), Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty -
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Theodore Roosevelt
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William Howard Taft
Vice President: James Sherman
Poltical Party: Republican
Major Laws & Legislation: Dollar Diplomacy(1912), Payne-Aldrich Tarrif(1909)
Major Events: Titanic Sinks(1912), Ohio's great Miami Basin floods the city of Dayton(1913) -
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William Howard Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas Marshall
Political Party: Democrat
Major Laws & Legislation: Underwood Tarrif Act of 1913, Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Major Events: World War I (1914-18), Revolution in Russia (1917) -
Warren G. Harding
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Political Party: Republican
Major Laws & Legislation: Fordney-McCumber tariff(1922), Budget and Accounting Act(1921)
Major Events: recession from 1920 to 1921, Teapot Dome Scandal(1922-23) -
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Warren G. Harding
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Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Political Party: Republican
Major Laws & Legislation: Revenue Act of 1924, Indian Citizenship Act (1927), Kellogg-Briand Act of 1928
Major Events: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Peak of the Klu Klux Klan (1924), Movies with Sound (1923) -
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Calvin Coolidge
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Herbert Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Political Party: Republican Party
Major Events: Stock Market Crash (1929), Great Depression (1929-1939), Star Spangled Banner becomes National Anthem(1931)
Major Laws & Legislature: Treaty of Lima (1929), Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930), National Origins Act (1929) -
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Herbert Hoover
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: Great Depression (1929-1939), Pearl Harbor (1941), WWII (1939-1945)
Major Laws & Legislature: Emergency Banking Act (1933), Glass-Steagall Act (1933), National Industrial Recovery Act ( 1933) -
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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Harry S. Truman
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki(1945), strike wave of 1946, Cold War (1947-1991)
Major Laws & Legislature: Presidential Succession Act of 1947, Taft-Hartley Act (1947), National Security Act of 1947 -
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Harry S. Truman
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Dwight D Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard Nixon
Political Party: Republican
Major Events: cold war (1947-1991), interstate highway System (1956), Atoms for Peace
Major Laws & Legislature: Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, Eisenhower Doctrine, Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1960 -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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John F Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon B Johnson
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: Cold War (1947-1991), Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis
Major Laws & Legislature: creation of the Peace Corps, establishment of the Alliance for Progress -
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John F Kennedy
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Lyndon B Johnson
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Lyndon B Johnson
Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: first man on moon (1969), Civil Rights Movement
Major Laws & Legislature: Immigration Act of 1965, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act (1965) -
Richard Nixon
Vice President: spiro agnew
Political Party: Republican
Major Events: Watergate Scandal (1972), Vietnam War
Major Laws & Legislature: Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty, Nixon Doctrine -
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Richard Nixon
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Gerald Ford
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller
Political Party: Democratic
Major Events: heimlich maneuver developed (1974), attempted assination of Ford (1975), Founding of Microsoft (1975)
Major Laws & Legislature: Proclamation 4311 (1974), Equal Rights Amendment -
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
Vice President: Walter Mondale
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: United Airlines strike (1978), MInimum wage increased to $2.90 per hour
Major Laws & Legislature: The Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979, Airline Deregulation Act (1978) -
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Regan
Vice President: George H W. Bush
Political Party: Republican
Major Events: Berlin Wall Falls (1989), US advertising permited on Soviet TV (1988)
Major Laws & Legislature: Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act (1982), Social Security Reform Bill (1983), Water Quality Control Act (1987) -
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Ronald Regan
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George H. W. Bush
Vice President: Dan Quayle
Political Party: Republican
Major Events: Collapse of the Soviet Union (1989), Gulf War (1990), Somali Civil War (1992)
Major Laws & Legislature: Immigration Act of 1990, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1991) -
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George H W Bush
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Bill Clinton
Vice President: Al Gore
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: Whitewater Controversy (1993), World Trade Center bombed (1993), India and Pakistan test Nuclear Weapons(1998)
Major Laws & Legislature: North American Free Trade Agreement (1992), Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Dont Ask, Dont Tell -
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Bill Clinton
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George W Bush
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George W. Bush
Vice President: Dick Cheney
Political Party: Republican
Major Events: 911 (2001), War on Terror (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Major Laws & Legislature: No Child Left Behind(2002), Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Medicare Act of 2003 -
Barack Obama
Vice President: Joseph Biden
Political Party: Democrat
Major Events: death of Osama bin Laden (2011), U.S Pull Out from Iraq Cities (2009), Haiti Earthquake (2010)
Major Laws & Legislature: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(2010), -
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Barack Obama
