Set: US History - Presidents

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George Washington1793 - Proclamation of Neutrality
John Adams1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts
Thomas Jefferson1803 - Louisiana Purchase
James MadisonWar of 1812
James Monroe1823 - Americas should be free from future European colonization
John Quincy Adams1828 - The Tariff of Abominations
Andrew Jackson1830 - Indian Removal Act
Martin Van BurenPanic of 1837
William Henry Harrison"Tippecanoe" - Died April 4, 1841 (31 days after taking office)
John Tyler1841 - First Vice-President to become president
James K Polk1846 - War with Mexico
Zachary TaylorCompromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore1850 - Fugitive Slave Act
Franklin Pierce1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Buchanan1857 - The Dred Scot Decision
Abraham Lincoln1864 - The Battle of Gettysburg
Andrew Johnson1868 - First President to be Impeached
Ulysses S Grant1875 - Whiskey Ring Scandal
Rutherford B HayesCompromise of 1877 - The End of Reconstruction
James Garfield1881 - Assassinated
Chester A Arthur1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
Grover Cleveland1894 - Pullman Strike
Benjamin Harrison1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
William McKinley1898 - Spanish-American War
Theodore Roosevelt1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
William Howard Taft1909 - "Dollar Diplomacy"
Woodrow Wilson1917 - the "Fourteen Points"
Warren G Harding1923 - Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge1928 - Kellog-Briand Pact
Herbert Hoover1929 - Black Tuesday
Franklin D Roosevlet1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
Harry S Truman1945 - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Dwight D Eisenhower1957 - Sent US Army to integrate Little Rock Central High School
John F Kennedy1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
Lyndon B Johnson1964 - Civil Rights Act
Richard M Nixon1972 - Watergate
Gerald Ford1975 - the Fall of Saigon
Jimmy Carter1979 - Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan1986 - Iran-Contra Affair
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Terms 39
Creator jgodoy
Created April 24, 2008
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Subjects us history, presidents
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