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George Washington

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Constitution

Federalist and Antifederalist Papers

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John Adams

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XYZ Affair (French Quasi-War)
Alien and Sedition Acts
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Thomas Jefferson

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Marbury v. Madison (Supreme Court can void unconstitutional acts)
Louisiana Purchase

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James Madison

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War of 1812 (British seizing American Ships. Warhawks. No real reason to fight the war.)
Fall of the Federalist party

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James Monroe

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Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise (MO Slave state. ME Free State)
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John Quincy Adams

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Westward Expansion

“Corrupt Bargain” (Jackson had Plurality of votes. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House, chose to have Adams Win)

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Andrew Jackson

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Spoils System

Indian Removal

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Martin Van Buren

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Panic of 1837

Native American Association (Anti immigration)

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William Henry Harrison

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neck

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John Tyler

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First telegraph sent

Annexation of Texas

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James K. Polk

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Seneca Falls Convention

Mexican American War

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Zachary Taylor

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neck

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Millard Fillmore

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Compromise of 1850 (A perceived saving of the Union right before the Civil War)
Fugitive Slave Act

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Franklin Pierce

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Ostend Manifesto (buy Cuba or take it by force)
Kansas Nebraska Act (Popular sovereignty. John Brown: Christ. Bleeding Kansas)
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James Buchanan

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

Panic of 1857

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Abraham Lincoln

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NYC Draft Riots

Emancipation Proclamation

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Andrew Johnson

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Black Codes

Civil Rights Act (blacks=whites)

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Ulysses S. Grant

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15th Amendment (Black voting)
Civil Right Act of 1875 (Blacks=whites in public and court)
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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Compromise of 1877 (Unofficial. Ends reconstruction. Hayes can be president if he removes troops from south)
Jim Crow Laws

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James A. Garfield

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Neckeroni and Cheese

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Chester A. Arthur

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Chinese Exclusion Act

Pendleton Civil Service Act (government jobs will hire skilled people, not loyal-to-the-presidents)

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Grover Cleveland (Part I)

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Dawes Act (shredded indian culture)
Interstate Commerce Act (Railroad regulation. "Reasonable" rates.)
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Benjamin Harrison

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Sherman Antitrust Act
Homestead Strike (super violent strike)
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Grover Cleveland (Part II)

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Panic of 1893
Pullman Strike (railroad strike. Coxey's Army)
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William McKinley

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Spanish-American War
Boxer Rebellion (rebellion in China)
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Theodore Roosevelt

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Panama Canal

Anthracite Coal Strike (Square Deal)

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William Howard Taft

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Payne-Aldrich Tariff (opposite of what progressives wanted)

Pinchot-Ballinger Affair (selling government land in Alaska)

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Woodrow Wilson

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War Industries Board

Espionage and Sedition Acts

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Warren G. Harding

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Prohibition

Sacco and Vanzetti (no real evidence used)

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Calvin Coolidge

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Scopes Monkey Trial
Dawes Plan (circle of payments to get payment for WWI)
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Herbert Hoover

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The Great Depression

Hoovervilles (slums)

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Franklin Delanore Roosevelt

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Emergency Banking Act

Social Security Act

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