U.S. Presidents

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George Washington

General of the Continental Army

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John Adams

Signed the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

Purchased Louisiana

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James Madison

President during the War of 1812

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James Monroe

Author of the Monroe Doctrine

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John Quincy Adams

President during the completion of the Erie Canal

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Andrew Jackson

President during the Nullification Act and the Alamo

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Martin van Buren

President during the Panic of 1837

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William Henry Harrison

General Known as “Old Tippecanoe”

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John Tyler

President when Florida was added to the Union

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James K. Polk

President during the Mexican War

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Zachery Taylor

General who captured Mexico City

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Millard Fillmore

President during the Compromise of 1850

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Franklin Pierce

Completed the Gadsden Purchase

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James Buchanan

President during the Dred Scott court case

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Abraham Lincoln

President during the Civil War

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Andrew Johnson

First President to be Impeached

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Ulysses S. Grant

General-in-chief during the Civil War

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Rutherford B. Hayes

Pulled Union troops out of the South

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James Garfield

Shot by disgruntled office seekers

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Chester A. Arthur

President when “Spoils System” ended

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Grover Cleveland

resided during dedication of the Statue of Liberty

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Benjamin Harrison

Grandson of “Old Tippecanoe”

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Grover Cleveland

First president to serve two separate terms

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William McKinley | President during the Spanish-American War

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Theodore Roosevelt | His policies were known as "the Square Deal"

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William Howard Taft | Supported the start of income tax

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Woodrow Wilson | President during World War I

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Warren G. Harding | Considered one of the weakest presidents of the United States

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Calvin Coolidge | Quiet man; Referred to as "Silent Cal"

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Herbert Hoover | President during Stock Market Crash

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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Proposed the "New Deal" and resided during WWII

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Harry S. Truman | President during the beginning of the Cold War

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Dwight D. Eisenhower | General who orchestrated D-Day during WWII

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John F. Kennedy | President during the building of the Berlin Wall

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Lyndon Johnson | President during the Vietnam War

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Richard Nixon | Involved in the Watergate scandal

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Gerald Ford | Only man to become president without being elected

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Jimmy Carter | President during the "crisis of confidence"

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Ronald Reagan | Received the most electoral votes of any president

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George Bush | President during the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Bill Clinton | Second president to be impeached

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George W. Bush | President during the attacks on the Twin Towers

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Barack Obama | Our current president