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Known for his farewell address warning against political parties.
President 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, WWII, Japanese Internment Camps
President 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, Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson
Escalated the war in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, started the Executive Department of Housing and Urban Development, War on Poverty, Great Society
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Philippine-American War, Spanish American War
President who desegregated the military, dropped atomic bomb, containment, Marshall Plan
President Harry S. Truman
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
President Thomas Jefferson
Journalist who exposed the horrors of lynching in the South during Progressive Era and worked for Women's Suffrage
Ida B. Wells
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"
President 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), Cuban Missile Crisis, 1960, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country
President John F. 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
Abolitionist who believed in using violence, involved in Bleeding Kansas and raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown
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
Native American Sioux Chief and Warrior who resisted Westward expansion in the Great Plains, known for Battle of Little Big Horn, Ghost Dance
Believed African Americans should demand rights instantly and strive for higher education ("talented tenth") 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
President who took over after Lincoln's Assassination, very anti-racial equality, impeached by Congress
President Andrew Johnson
President during WWI, Progressive Era, Women's Suffrage, created League of Nations
President Woodrow Wilson
Environmental Protection Agency, Detente, expansion of welfare, Watergate Scandal
President Richard Nixon