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Woodrow Wilson
Underwood Tariff, Federal Reserve System, Sherman Anti- trust act, World War 1 -
Warren G Harding
Teapot dome scandle, Signed the first federal child welfare program and 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' medical and job needs and the Bureau -
Calvin Coolige
Espoused 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, Signed the Immigration Act restricting southern and eastern European immigration, Signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full U.S. citizenship to all American Indians while permitting them to retain tribal land and cult -
Herbert Hoover
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, Raised taxes by increasing the top tax bracket from 25% to 63% and increasing corporate taxes -
Frankln D Roosevelt
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, Protected the livelihoods of laborers and farmer
