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Unit
George Washington:
Date in Office: 1789-1797
Major "events" of presidency:
George Washington:
Date in Office: 1789-1797
Major "events" of presidency:
- Encouraged and participated in the American Revolution, ultimately giving America the victory
- Helped to unify America and set up the two term rule as well as having a cabinet for the president
- Encouraged the creation of the Constitution which declared America's independence from Britain.
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Unit
John Adams:
Date in Office: 1797-1801
Major "events" of presidency:
John Adams:
Date in Office: 1797-1801
Major "events" of presidency:
- Urged the Quasi War
- Passed the Alien and Sedition Acts against immigrants
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Unit 7
Thomas Jefferson:
Date in Office: 1801-1807
Major "events" of presidency:
Thomas Jefferson:
Date in Office: 1801-1807
Major "events" of presidency:
- Turned the tide, politically, giving Republicans much more control than previously
- Industrialism began to emerge (cotton gin, steamboat, turnpikes)
- The Louisiana territory was bought from Napoleon, doubling the size of America
- The War of 1812
- Crash Course video on Age of Jefferson
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Unit 8
James Madison
Date in Office: 1809-1817
Major "events" of presidency:
James Madison
Date in Office: 1809-1817
Major "events" of presidency:
- America began to spread westward
- Textile industry began to develop in the North
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Unit 8
James Monroe:
Date in Office: 1817-1825
Major "events" of presidency:
James Monroe:
Date in Office: 1817-1825
Major "events" of presidency:
- Panic of 1819
- "Era of good feelings"
- Missouri Compromise, represented the sectionalism that was beginning to emerge
- Marshall made several important decisions, giving the federal government even more power than before
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Unit 8
John Quincy Adams:
Date in Office: 1825-1829
Major "events" of presidency:
John Quincy Adams:
Date in Office: 1825-1829
Major "events" of presidency:
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Unit 9
Andrew Jackson:
Date in Office: 1829-1837
Major "events" of presidency:
Andrew Jackson:
Date in Office: 1829-1837
Major "events" of presidency:
- Parties were legitimized
- The Nullification Crisis
- "Trail of Tears"
- "Removal Act"
- Jackson's fierceness to remove the Bank of America
- New Parties emerged: Whigs and Democrats
- Crash Course Video on the Age of Jackson
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Unit 9
Martin Van Buren:
Date in Office: 1837-1841
Major "events" of presidency:
Martin Van Buren:
Date in Office: 1837-1841
Major "events" of presidency:
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William Harrison
Date in Office: 1841
Major "events" of presidency
Date in Office: 1841
Major "events" of presidency
- Was president for only 32 days
- Caught pneumonia and died
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John Tyler
Date in Office: 1841-1845
Major "events" of presidency
Date in Office: 1841-1845
Major "events" of presidency
- Frustration with Whig party
- Whigs took over White House in the election of 1844
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James K. Polk
Date in Office: 1841-1849
Major "events" of presidency
Date in Office: 1841-1849
Major "events" of presidency
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Zachary Taylor
Date in Office: 1849-1850
Major "events" of presidency
Date in Office: 1849-1850
Major "events" of presidency
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Franklin Pierce
Date in Office: 1853-1857
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1853-1857
Major "events" of presidency:
- The Uneasy Truce
- Ostend Manifesto
- Slavery, Railroads, and the West
- Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Free-Soil Ideology
- Franklin Pierce video from biography.com:
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James Buchanan
Date in Office: 1857-1861
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1857-1861
Major "events" of presidency:
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Abraham Lincoln
Date in Office: 1861-1865
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1861-1865
Major "events" of presidency:
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Ulysses S. Grant
Date in Office; 1869-1877
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office; 1869-1877
Major "events" of presidency:
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Date in Office: 1877-1881
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1877-1881
Major "events" of presidency:
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Grover Cleveland
Date in Office: 1st term 1885-1889
2nd term: 1893-1897
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1st term 1885-1889
2nd term: 1893-1897
Major "events" of presidency:
- The Dawes Act
- The Airplane and the Automobile
- The "Self-Made Man"
- The Immigrant Work Force
- The Knights of Labor and AFL
- Strikes
- 2nd Term: Imperialism
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Benjamin Harrison
Date in Office: 1889-1893
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1889-1893
Major "events" of presidency:
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William McKinley
Date in Office: 1897-1901
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1897-1901
Major "events" of presidency:
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Theodore Roosevelt
Date in Office: 1901-1909
Major "events" of presidency;
Date in Office: 1901-1909
Major "events" of presidency;
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Warren G. Harding
Date in Office: 1921-1923
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1921-1923
Major "events" of presidency:
- The New Economy
- The New Culture
- Prohibition
- Nativism and the Klan
- Harding and Coolidge
- Crash Course History Video for the Roaring 20's:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQfMWAikyU
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Calvin Coolidge
Date in Office: 1923-1929
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1923-1929
Major "events" of presidency:
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date in Office: 1933-1945
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1933-1945
Major "events" of presidency:
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Date in Office: 1953-1961
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1953-1961
Major "events" of presidency:
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John F. Kennedy
Date in Office: 1961-1963
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1961-1963
Major "events" of presidency:
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Richard M. Nixon
Date in Office: 1969-1974
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1969-1974
Major "events" of presidency:
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Gerald R. Ford
Date in Office; 1974-1977
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office; 1974-1977
Major "events" of presidency:
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James Carter
Date in Office: 1977-1971
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1977-1971
Major "events" of presidency:
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Ronald Reagan
Date in Office: 1981-1989
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1981-1989
Major "events" of presidency:
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George H.W. Bush
Date in Office: 1989-1993
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1989-1993
Major "events" of presidency:
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William J. Clinton
Date in Office: 1993-2001
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 1993-2001
Major "events" of presidency:
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George W. Bush
Date in Office: 2001-2009
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 2001-2009
Major "events" of presidency:
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Barack Obama
Date in Office: 2009-present
Major "events" of presidency:
Date in Office: 2009-present
Major "events" of presidency: