US Presidents

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1. George Washington

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• Led the revolutionary war

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3. Thomas Jefferson

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• in 1803, to fund Napoleon’s wars, France sold the United States the Louisiana Territory, spanning over 828,000 square miles, for $15 million. This doubled the US territory and became one of Jefferson’s biggest accomplishments

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4. James Madison

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2. John Adams

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5. James Monroe

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6. John Quincy Adams

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7. Andrew Jackson

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• 1812 war hero (general, Louisiana hero)
• lost campaign to Quincy Adams. Ran again in 1828, won.
• first president who people saw as “president of the people”, elected by general population instead of representatives

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8. Martin Van Burren

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• Andrew Jackson’s secretary of state. Helped Jackson to run his campaign against Quincy Adams

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9. William Henry Harrison

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10. John Tyler

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• first Vice President to become president

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11. James Polk

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12. Zachary Taylor

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13. Millard Fillmore

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14. Franklin Pierce

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• Signed Kansas-Nebraska act into law in 1854

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15. James Buchanan

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16. Abraham Lincoln

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• Emancipation proclamation - January 1, 1863

- First president to be assassinated - April 15, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth

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17. Andrew Johndon

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• Lincoln’s VP - sworn in as president in 1865, after Lincoln’s assassination
• Johnson’s Secretary of State, William Seward, signed a treaty with Russia to buy Alaska for $7.2 mln in 1867
• Johnson - first president to be impeached. But speared removal by 1 vote

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18. Ulysses Grant

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• civil war general

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19. Rutherford Hayes

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20. James Garfield

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21. Chester Arthur

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22. Grover Cleveland

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23. Benjamin Harrison

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24. Grover Cleveland

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25. William McKinley

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• assassinated in 1901

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26. Theodore Roosevelt

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• VP for McKinley, became the youngest president at 42
• known as Trustbuster, acted to stop unfair practices of big businesses
• after Taft was elected, Roosevelt was unhappy with his policies. Roosevelt formed a Progressive Party, and ran against Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Rep vote split between Taft and Roosevelt, and democrat Wilson won

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27. William Howard Taft

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28. Woodrow Wilson

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• president during WWI
• opposed German unrestricted submarine warfare, but after German U-boats torpedoed 2 US ships, asked the co great to declare war
• met at Hall of Mirrors in France to discuss the treaty of Versailles, ending the War
• proposed forming League of Nations as one of the treaty’s provisions
• US congress never ratified the treaty, so US never became a member of League of Nations

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29. Warren Harding

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• first president to address the nation over radio

- hands off president, his advisors became involved in numerous scandals. Died in office before he could be impeached

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30. Calvin Coolidge

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• no president more embodied the idea that the gov is to promote interests of business than Coolidge
• last president to visit Cuba, before Obama in March 2016

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31. Herbert Hoover

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32. Franklin D Roosevelt

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33. Harry Truman

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34. Dwight Eisenhower

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• supreme Allied commander during WWII

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35. John F Kennedy

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