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POTUS during the Civil War, who was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this POTUS was busy negotiating things like the Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen's Agreement and Sherman Antitrust Act.
Teddy Roosevelt
POTUS who signed the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and suggested that we join the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
POTUS whose foreign policy platform included landing a human on the moon. He was also assassinated.
John F. Kennedy
POTUS that ordered federal protection of the Little Rock 9.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lincoln's Vice President who became 17th POTUS. He was a Southern Democrat
Andrew Johnson
POTUS during World War I. After the Great War, he had a 14 Point Plan to prevent a global war.
Woodrow Wilson
POTUS whose policies to help the American people during the Great Depression included Social Security Act, FDIC, Tennessee Valley Authority and Works Progress Administration. All of these can be found in his New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
During Cold War, POTUS increased our involvement in Vietnam when Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. He was also JFK's VP.
Lyndon B. Johnson
George W. Bush was POTUS when Al Qaeda hijacked planes and attacked America on this infamous date.
September 11th, 2001
9/11
Ulysses S. Grant
Under POTUS Wilson, this 1916 legislation banned interstate transportation of good produced by child labor.
Keating Owen Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt
POTUS who used Vietnamization to decrease U.S. involvement in Asia during the Cold War. He found himself under scrutiny with the Pentagon Papers leak and even more so with the Watergate Scandal.
Richard M. Nixon
POTUS John F. Kennedy was in office when 250,000 people from multiple civil rights organization and backgrounds joined together to protest against employment discrimination. This event led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1963 March on Washington
Presidential Candidate for the Populist Party (did not win) who is known for his dramatic Cross of Gold Speech
William Jennings Bryan
Under POTUS Theodore Roosevelt, who became the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, which promoted the conservation of natural resources.
Gifford Pinchot
POTUS whose Executive Order 9981 desegregated the military and who ordered the bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to help end World War II.
Harry S. Truman
Former Allied Commander during WWII, POTUS who followed a policy of brinksmanship.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
POTUS whose Great Society policy included anti-discrimination and anti-poverty initiatives and is sometimes called "War on Poverty."
Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1866, POTUS Johnson vetoed this legislation that would have banned black codes, but Congress overrode him.
(You must include the year in your answer)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Prior to the Spanish-American War, the Spanish Ambassador criticized POTUS William McKinley in this written correspondence.
De Lome Letter
POTUS during the Great Depression. The mistreatment of the Bonus Army and not helping the American people enough cost him from being re-elected.
Herbert Hoover
Ronald Reagan
Nelson Mandela was elected PRESIDENT of South Africa after the _____ ended. (Hint: It is a vocab word about legal segregation.)
Apartheid