Presidents Flashcards
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- William Taft
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- 27th President
- 1909-1913
- preferred being administrator over president
Events that happened:
- States Admitted to the Union, 1912 New Mexico and Arizona were both admitted to the Union under President Taft’s term.
- 16th Amendment, 1913 The sixteenth amendment, ratified during President Taft’s term, allowed the government to “lay and collect taxes on incomes.”
- The Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Shipments Act, 1913 This act barred the interstate transportation of liquor into states where liquor was banned.
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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- 1901-1909
- “speak softly, Carry big stick”
- Trust-buster
- known for the way he used executive power than any other president
- brought US more into world politics
- Worked on conservation issues
- Spanish-American War
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- Woodrow Wilson (2 terms)
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- 1913-1921
- Pres. During WWI
- leader of progressive movement
- proposed 14 points
- Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices. Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day.
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- Warren Harding
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1921-1923
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- Calvin Coolidge
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1923-1929
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- Herbert Hoover
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-1929-1933
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- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- 1933-1945
- Served 4 terms
- Took on presidency during Great Depression
- New Deal
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- Harry Truman
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- 1945-1953
- Truman Doctrine: supported countries resisting communism; have money specifically to turkey and Greece
- Red Scare
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- John F. Kennedy
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1961-1963
- New Frontier
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- Lyndon Johnson
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1963-1969
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- Richard Nixon
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- 1969-1974
- Republican
- Did support things that helped environment
- watergate scandal
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- Gerald Ford
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- 1974-1977
- Export-trade deficit
- NYC faced bankruptcy (1975)
- Oil shocks as result of US supports for Israel
- Inflation soared and economic growth slowed
- WIN (Whip Inflatuoj Niw)
- High unemployment
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- Jimmy Carter
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1977-1981
- -Acted in in-New Deal ways
- invested in nuclear power
- Signed treaty that would give Panama back to Panama
- Shah of Iran –led to American angered she was not liked
- Carter Doctrine: would use force if necessary to protect interest in Persian Gulf Region
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- Ronald Reagan
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1981-1989
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- George HW Bush
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1989-1993
