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Known for his farewell address warning against political parties.
George Washington
Abolitionist who encouraged Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and to recruit Black soldiers
Frederick Douglas
Served four terms, very hands-on government, passed New Deal, Japanese Internment Camps
Franklin D Roosevelt
General during the War of 1812. As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected individual states nullifying federal laws, and increased presidential powers.
Andrew Jackson
Escalated the war in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, started the Executive Department of Housing and Urban Development
Lyndon B. Johnson
Camp David Accords, Gas crisis, Malaise Speech, Iranian Hostage crisis...
Jimmy Carter
President who desegregated the military....
Truman
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
President during the Teapot Dome Scandal, claimed he would return the U.S. to a sense of "normalcy" following WWI...
Warren G. Harding
Believed in the Gospel of Wealth and masterminded vertical integration in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Believed in tax cuts and less government spending; cut out many welfare and public works programs. "Trickle Down Economics"
Ronald Reagan
Sued for his freedom after being taken to free states, resulted in major Supreme Court ruling leading to Civil War
Dred Scott
Youngest and Most Attractive President (Welcome Ryker and Kate)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Created Settlement Houses in cities (Hull House) to help address inequities in cities, particularly for immigrants living in tenements
Jane Addams
Exposed Rockefeller's horizontal integration and monopolistic practices, helped lead to the break of Standard Oil of Ohio.
Ida Tarbell
Seen as an accommodationist, wanted rights for African Americans through work and training
Booker T. Washington
Advocated for the creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
Alexander Hamilton
Published Common Sense to persuade colonists to support the American Revolutionary war effort...
Thomas Paine
Signed controversial Alien and Sedition Act into law which targeted Democratic-Republicans, free speech, and deported foreigners
John Adams
This man came up with a last ditch effort to save the Union before the Civil War...
John Crittenden
Believed African Americans should demand rights instantly and strive for higher education instead of vocational training.
W.E.B DuBois
Pushed popular sovereignty in Western territories and was the main reason for the Kansas-Nebraska Act....
Stephen Douglas
Southern leader who contributed to nullification crisis and served as Andrew Jackson's Vice President
John C. Calhoun
Impactful congress member: created American System, Missouri Compromise, and Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Environmental Protection Agency, Detente, expansion of welfare, Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon