Preserving and extending democracy and voting rights
In 1917, this president proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world “safe for democracy?”
Woodrow Wilson
This president, during the Great Depression, forcibly put down the Bonus March protest at the White House by veterans?
Herbert Hoover
Instead of siding with corporations, this president sided with worker unions, which was a transition from the Gilded Age presidents who sent in federal troops to put down labor protests
Teddy Roosevelt
This president signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which allows an employee to seek damages for wage discrimination each time a discriminatory compensation practice occurs?
Barack Obama
This president gave an executive order that forbid racial or ethnic discrimination in the defense industry during World War II?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Under this president women finally gained the right to vote
Woodrow Wilson
This president put down the first major rebellion under the US Constitution related to tax on whiskey
George Washington
This president attempted to push the Democrat Party to adopt a national Civil Rights platform at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, but failed?
Harry S. Truman
Prior to becoming a US president, in constitutional debate, he explained why women and the poor should not be allowed to vote in the United States after his wife requested that he "remember the ladies"?
John Adams (not John Quincy Adams)
This president pushed for the passing of the 15th Amendment which protects voting rights of citizens regardless of race or color?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Selma to Montgomery March that became known as Bloody Sunday led to this president sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that supported the right to vote expressed in the 14th and 15th Amendments and to help end voter suppression based on race.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This president put down South Carolina's initial threat to secede in the Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson
After loosing the Republican nomination, this former president started his own political party with a platform that advocated for Women's Suffrage and equal pay, an end to child labor, national health care, social insurance for elderly and unemployed, 8-hour work day, and workers comp.
Teddy Roosevelt
The first president to include an openly gay cabinet member
Joe Biden
This president desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces for the first time in U.S. history
Harry S Truman
Was president when the 17th Amendment was passed, allowing US citizens to directly vote for their senators
William Howard Taft
Which president's election made so many US citizens upset that several states wrote documents stating their independence and withdrawal from the United States union. South Carolina even sent their state militia to fight at a federal buildings.
Abraham Lincoln
Under President Martin Van Buren (1839) the Amistad Ship of captured Africans overthrew the slave traders and landed in the US. This former president serving in the House of Representatives argued in the Supreme Court for their freedom?
John Quincy Adams
The Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court Case made laws against homosexuality illegal. This president, at the time of this court case, previously refused to remove state laws against homosexuality?
George W Bush (Jr)
This president signed the Indian Citizenship Act that extended citizenship to Native Americans in the 1920s.
Calvin Coolidge
While signing the Civil Rights Act, this president said, "My fellow citizens, we have come now to a time of testing. We must not fail. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hears. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole."
Lyndon B. Johnson
This president signed the Insurrection Act because his former Vice President (Aaron Burr) raised an army to seize parts of Mexico and the US to create his own country
Thomas Jefferson
This president signed into law the Hate Crime Statistics Act to gather and account for crimes based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity and signed the American Disabilities Act (1990) that outlaws discrimination based on disability and guarantees equal opportunity
George H. W. Bush (Sr.)
This president appointed the first female cabinet member. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This president appointed the first Latin American cabinet member, Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr -Secretary of Education
Ronald Reagan