presidents Flashcards

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what year was Abraham Lincoln president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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16th President in 1861- 65
he was president during the period of reconstruction
he was assassinated
he was republican

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what year was Andrew johnson president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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after the assassination of Lincoln Johnson became the 17th president
1865-1869
period of reconstruction
he was ex-democrate became a republican.
he was impeached

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what year was Ulysses S. Grant president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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after the impeachment of Johnson, Grant became the 18th president
1869–1877
period of reconstruction
he was a republican president, he was also a figurehead president.

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what year was Rutherford B. Hayes president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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Hayes became the 19th president after Grant.
1877-1881
republican
period of reconstruction

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what year was James Garfield president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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Garfield became the 20th president after Hayes. in 1881.
4 March 1881 – 19 September 1881
republican
cut short after 200 days when he was assassinated.

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what year was Chester A. Arthur president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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Arthur became the 21st president following the assassination of Garfield.
1881-85
republican

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what year was Grover Cleveland president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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22nd president following Arthur. also the 24th president following benjimn Harris. 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
1st democrat following the civil war.

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what year was Benjamin Harrison president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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23rd president in-between Clevelands time in office.
1889 to 1893
republican

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what year was William McKinley president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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25th president after Clevelands second term in office.
serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 190
Republican

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what year was Theodore Roosevelt president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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26th president took office due to the assassination of McKinley
1901-1909
Republican (later started the progressive party)

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what year was William Howard Taft president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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27th president following Roosevelt
1909-1913
Republican

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what year was Woodrow Wilson president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921)
Democrate

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what year was Warren G. Harding president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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29th president following Wilson
republican
1921-1923

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what year was Calvin Coolidge president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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30th president following Harding
1923-1929
known as the silent Cow
republican

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what year was Herbert Hoover president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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31st president following Coolidge
1929 to 1933
in office at time of Wall Street crash.
greatly critisezed (hoover vill and hoover slippers)
republican

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what year was Franklin D. Roosevelt president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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32nd president following Hoover
democrate

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what year was Harry S. Truman president?
what period of time was it?
what party was he?

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33rd president following FDR
April 12, 1945-
Democrate

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what year was Dwight D. Eisenhower president?
what party was he?

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34th president following Truman.
1953-1961
2 terms in office.
Republican

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what year was John F. Kennedy president?
what party was he?

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35th president following Eisenhower.
1961-1963
Democrate

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what year was Lyndon B. Johnson president?
what party was he?

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36th president following the death of JFK.
took office on November 22, 1963
Democrate

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what year was Richard M. Nixon president?
what did he do?
what party was he?

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37th president following Johnson
1969-1974
Watergate scandal, ended the Vietnam war, improved relations with USSR and China.
Republican