Presidents of the era Flashcards
(54 cards)
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Abraham Lincoln
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1861- 1865 - Republican
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Andrew Johnson
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1865 - 1869 Republican
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Ulysses S grant
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1869 - 1877 Republican
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Rutherford B Hayes
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1877 - 1881 Republican
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James A Garfield
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1881 Republican
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Chester A Arthur
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1881 - 1885 Republican
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Grover Cleveland
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1885 - 1889 Democrat
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Benjamin Harrison
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1889 - 1893 Republican
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Grover Cleveland
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1893 - 1897 Democrat
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William McKinley
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1897 - 1901 Republican
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Theodore Roosevelt
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1901 - 1909 Republican
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William Howard Taft
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1909 - 1913 Republican
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Woodrow Wilson
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1913 - 1921 Democrat
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Warren G Harding
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1921 - 1923 Republican
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Calvin Coolidge
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1923 - 1929 Republican
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Herbert Hoover
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1929 - 1933 Republican
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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1933 - 1945 Democrat
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Harry S Truman
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1945 - 1953 Democrat
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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1953 - 1961 Republican
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John F Kennedy
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1961 - 1963 Democrat
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Lyndon B Johnson
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1963 - 1969 Democrat
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Richard Nixon
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1969 - 1974 Republican
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Gerald Ford
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1974-1977 Republican
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Presidents of reconstruction
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- Lincoln
- Johnson
- Grant
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Lincoln
- Key Legislation: Emancipation Proclamation 1863 - abolished slavery
- Key Success - Victor in the American Civil War
- Key Failures - Motivation questioned for emancipation of slaves
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Johnson
- Key legislation - 14th Amendment 1868
- Tenure of Office Act 1867
- Key successes - leniency towards the South ensure there was no increase in the existing hostility
- Bought Alaska from Russia 1867
- Key failures - Anti-black suffrage
- 1868 - narrowly avoided being impeached
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Grant
- key legislation - 15th Amendment 1870
- key successes - military experience
- key failures - Great Sioux War 1876
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Presidents of the Gilded and Industrial age
- Hayes
- Garfield
- Arthur
- Cleveland
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Hayes
- key legislation - Bland-Allison Act 1878
- key successes - successfully dealt with the 1877 Great Railroad strike
- key failures - fierce opposition within his own party
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Garfield
- key successes - desire for civil service
- key failures - split in Rep party
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Arthur
- key legislation - Pendleton Act 1883
- Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
- key successes - champion of civil service reform
- key failures - Sand Creek Massacre 1864
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Cleveland 1.
- key legislation - Dawes Act 1887
- key successes - statue of liberty dedicated 1886
- key failures - evaded military service in the Civil War
- used veto power 584 times
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Presidents of the progressive and imperialist era
- Harrison
- Cleveland
- McKinley
- Roosevelt
- Taft
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Harrison
- key legislation - Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890
- key successes - increased in expansion westwards
- key failures - unsuccessful attempts to enact legislation to protect and extend civil rights of Black Americans
- Battle of Wounded Knee 1890
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Cleveland 2.
- key successes - large support in his party
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McKinley
- key legislation - Dingley Tarif Act 1897 (raised tarrifs)
- key successes - treaty of Paris 1898
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Roosevelt
- key legislation - Square deal
- key successes - made use of the Sherman Anti trust act 1890
- key failures - passive approach to civil rights
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Taft
- key legislation - Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act 1909
- key successes - policy of Harmony with congress
- key failures - more academic than politicans
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Presidents of the emergence on the world stage
- Wilson
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Wilson
- key legislation - 18th Amendment Act 1919
- 19th Amendments Act 1920
- Underwood-Simmons Act 1913
- key successes - generally supported female suffrage
- key failures - success in WW1
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Presidents during the roaring twenties
- Harding
- Coolidge
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Harding
- key legilsation - Budget and Accounting Act 1921
- key successes - personally championed civil liberties for African Americans
- key failures - questionable appointments e.g. the Ohio gang
- tea pot dome scandal 1921-22
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Coolidge
- key legislation - immigration act 1924
- Indian Citizenship act 1924
- key successes - supported civil rights - refused to appoint any KKK members to office
- advocated anti-lynching laws
- key failures - laissez-faire attitude
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Presidents during the great depression and the new deal
- Hoover
- FDR
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Hoover
- key legislation - 21st Amendment act - repeal of 18th
- Smooth-Howley Act 1930
- key successes - Humanitarian
- establishment of the reconstruction finance corporation 1930
- key failures - unpopular due to great depression
- Hoovervilles
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FDR
- key legislation - New deal
- Neutrality acts 1935/36/37/39
- Good neighbour policy 1930s
- Smith act 1940
- key successes - elected 4 times
- Victory in WW2
- recognised the need for increased federal involvement in economy during the Great Depression
- key failures - received criticism for increased government spending
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presidents during ww2
- FDR
- Truman
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Truman
- key legislation - 22nd amendment act
- Fair deal 1949
- employment act 1946
- key successes - address to the NAACP 1947
- key failures - fall of China to communism 1949
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Presidents during the cold war
- Truman
- Eisenhower
- Kennedy
- Johnson
- Nixon
- Ford
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Eisenhower
- key legislation - continued New Deal and Fair Deal program
- Interstate highway system 1956
- key successes - Armistice ending the Korean War
- key failures - reluctance to use Federal power to intervene in Civil Rights
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Kennedy
- key legislation - new frontier
- key successes - Cuban missile crisis 1962
- Birmingham Race riots 1963
- key failures - Bay of pigs 1961
- Berlin Wall crisis 1961
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Johnson
- key legislation - great society
- civil rights act 1964
- voting rights act 1965
- Indian civil rights act 1968
- key successes - Kerner report 1967
- key failure - Vietnam war
- Race riots 1964-1968
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Nixon
- key legislation - Paris Peace Accords 1973
- key successes - Vietnamization 1973 - peace with honour
- historic visits to Communist China and USSR 1972
- key legislation - Watergate Scandal 1974
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Ford
- key legislation - Helsinki Accords 1975
- key successes - well liked and respected
- key failures - Vietnam fell to Vietcong forces 1975
