American Presidents

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American Presidents
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Constitution

• Article 2 establishes the second of the three
  branches of government, the Executive. Section 1
  establishes the office of the President and the
  Vice-President, and sets their terms to be four
  years. Presidents are elected by the Electoral
  College, whereby each state has one vote for each
  member of Congress. Originally, the President was
  the person with the most votes and the
  Vice-President was the person with the second
  most, though this is later changed. Certain
  minimum requirements are established again, such
  as a 35-year minimum age. Presidents must also be
  a natural-born citizen of the United States. The
  President is to be paid a salary, which cannot
  change, up or down, as long as he in is office.
• Section 2 gives the President some important
  powers. He is commander-in-chief of the armed
  forces and of the militia (National Guard) of all
  the states he has a Cabinet to aid him and can
  pardon criminals. He makes treaties with other
  nations, and picks many of the judges and other
  members of the government (all with the approval
  of the Senate).
• Section 3 establishes the duties of the
  President to give a state of the union address,
  to make suggestions to Congress, to act as head
  of state by receiving ambassadors and other heads
  of state, and to be sure the laws of the United
  States are carried out.

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George Washington

• 1784 1792
• Set precedents
• Two terms in office
• Peaceful transfer of power
• Mr. President
• Address to Congress

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John Adams

• 1797 -1801
• Alien and Sedition
• Acts
• Peaceful transfer
• of power

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Thomas Jefferson

• 1801-1809
• Purchased Louisiana
• Scholar, architect,
• scientist, diplomat

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Andrew Jackson

• 1829 1837
• First Western president
• Fought Bank of America
• Opened White House
• to public

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Millard Fillmore

• 1850 1853
• Opened Japan
• Compromise of 1850
• Bathtub joke

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Abraham Lincoln

• 1861-1865
• First assassinated
• president
• Fought Civil War
• Freed slaves
• Noted speaker,
• humorist

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Rutherford P. Hayes

• 1877-1881
• Ended Reconstruction

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Theodore Roosevelt

• 1901 1909
• Vice President
• Crusader
• Anti-monopoly
• Fought in war
• Founded
• third party

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Woodrow Wilson

• 1913 1921
• World War I
• League of Nations
• Stroke Edith ran
• country

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Herbert Hoover

• 1929 1933
• Depression
• Hoovervilles
• Coxeys Army
• Prohibition

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Franklin Roosevelt

• 1933 1945
• Only four-term
• president
• NRA
• CCC
• World War II

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Harry S. Truman

• 1945 1953
• Atom Bomb
• The buck
• stops here

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John F. Kennedy

• 1961 1963
• First Catholic
• Bay of Pigs
• Vietnam
• Camelot

John Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy
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Richard Nixon

• 1969 1974
• Resigned
• Vietnam War

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Watergate

• 1972 1974
• Illegal use of power Woodward and Bernstein
• Plumbers Public hearings

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Ronald Reagan

• 1981 1989
• Conservative
• End of Soviet Union

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Bill Clinton

• 1993-2001
• Balanced budget
• Full employment
• Almost impeached
• Ended wars in
• Yugoslavia
• Northern Ireland

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Barack Obama

• 2009
• First black
• president