Presidents and their policies

Question 1

George Washington (1789 - 1797)

Answer 1

• First US President
  *Set the precedent of a two term limit
  *Warned against foreign alliances in his Farewell Address
  *Neutrality Proclamation during
  European Wars

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809)

Answer 2

*Author of the declaration of Independence
*Louisiana Purchase
*Embargo Act of 1807
* Believer in limited federal government

Question 3

James Monroe (1817 - 1825)

Answer 3

*Monroe Doctrine (1823)
* Political harmony and economic growth

Question 4

Andrew Jackson(1829 - 1837)

Answer 4

*Expanded the presidential power (Jacksonian democracy)
*Trail of tears (Indian Removal Act)
*Opposed the national bank

Question 5

Abraham Lincoln(1861 - 1865)

Answer 5

*Led the country through the Civil War
*Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
*Preserved the Union
*Assassinated in 1865

Question 6

Theodore Roosevelt(1901 - 1909)

Answer 6

*Big Stick” diplomacy
*Panama Canal construction
*Trust-busting (regulated big corporations)
*First environmental president (national parks and conservation)

Question 7

Woodrow Wilson(1913 - 1921)

Answer 7

*Led the U.S. in WWI
*Proposed the League of Nations
*Fourteen Points for world peace
*Progressive reforms (income tax, women’s suffrage)

Question 8

Franklin D Roosevelt(1933 - 1945)

Answer 8

*New Deal to combat the Great Depression
*Led the U.S. through most of WWII
*Elected four times
*Established Social Security

Question 9

Harry S Truman(1945 - 1953)

Answer 9

*Ended WWII by authorizing atomic bombs
*Truman Doctrine: Containment of communism
*Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe
*Korean War begins

Question 10

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 10

*WWII Allied Commander turned president
*Interstate Highway System
*Cold War diplomacy: containment, CIA operations
*Warned of “military-industrial complex”

Question 11

John F Kennedy

Answer 11

*Cuban Missile Crisis
*Started the Peace Corps
*Supported civil rights
*Assassinated in 1963

Question 12

Lyndon B Johnson(1963 - 1969)

Answer 12

*Great Society programs (Medicare, civil rights, education)
*Civil Rights Act (1964)
*Escalated Vietnam War

Question 13

Richard Nixon(1969 - 1974)

Answer 13

*Détente with USSR and China
*Ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam
*Watergate scandal → resignation

Question 14

Ronald Reagan(1981 - 1989)

Answer 14

*Reaganomics (tax cuts, deregulation)
*Strong anti-communist stance → Cold War end
*“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”
*Iran-Contra scandal

Question 15

Bill Clinton(1993 - 2001)

Answer 15

*Economic boom of the 1990s
*NAFTA trade agreement
*Welfare reform
*Impeached but acquitted

Question 16

George W. Bush

Answer 16

*9/11 terrorist attacks
*War in Afghanistan and Iraq
*Homeland Security and Patriot Act
*Great Recession begins

Question 17

Barack Obama

Answer 17

*Affordable care act (Obamacare)
*Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
*Ordered raid that killed Osama bin Laden
*Paris Climate Accord