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US Presidents #2 Flashcards

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Supported the Fugitive Slave Act

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Millard Fillmore

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15

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James Buchannan

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Wrote Gettysburg Address

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Abraham Lincoln

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Zachary Taylor

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was impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the US Senate

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Andrew Johnson

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11

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James K. Polk

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President during Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

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19

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Issued Emancipation Prolamation

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Abraham Lincoln

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Purchased first ever used machine guns at the end of the Civil War with his own money

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Abraham Lincoln

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Supported the Compromise of 1850 which further complicated the slavery issue but allowed California to join the Union

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Millard Fillmore

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Supported the Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise

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Franklin Pierce

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President during Reconstruction

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Andrew Johnson

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ended military occupation in the South

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Millard Fillmore

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Was shot and killed by an assassin (Charles Julius Guiteau). His presidency only lasted 200 days.

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James A. Garfield

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First President to die by an assassin - John Wilkes Booth

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Abraham Lincoln

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Insituted Civil Service Reform as an attempt to end political favors from the Spoil Sport System

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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His Presidency was filled with scandle

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Ulysses S. Grant

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16

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Abraham Lincoln

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Was President during the first half of the Gold Rush

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James K. Polk

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14

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Franklin Pierce

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War with Mexico 1848 - Mexican American War, also known as Mr. Polk’s War

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James K. Polk

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General during War with Mexico

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Zachary Taylor

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First President to appoint African Americans to federal positions

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James A. Garfield

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Was considered a Northerner with Southern sympathies and that is the only way he won the Presidency. It made him ineffective and disliked by many

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James Buchannan

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Was a preacher before he became President

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James A. Garfield

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20

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James A. Garfield

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18

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Helped draft Ostend Manifesto - reasons why the US should purchase Cuba from Spain

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James Buchannan

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17

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Andrew Johnson

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Most Identifiable Union general during the Civil War and accepted General Lee’s surrender at the Appomattox Courtmous

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Ulysses S. Grant

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