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George Washington
First president born in 1732 on Virginia. Fought in the first skirmishes of French and Indian war at age 16 .Elected as commander in chief of the continental army in 1781. Married Martha Dandridge Curtis. -
Copyright law
George Washington signed the first U.S copyright law. A bill that permanently places nation's capital along the Potomac river. -
Alien and Sedition act
John Adams approved of four acts that collectively became known as the Alien and Sedition acts. These four acts became the most bitterly contested domestic issue during the presidency of John Adams. -
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John Adams
Second president born in Massachusetts By Colony on 1735.Was George Washington vice president. A Harvard educated lawyer. Served in France and Holland diplomatic roles, helped negotiate the treaty of peace -
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Thomas Jefferson
Third President born on 1743 in Albemarle Country Virginia. Studied at the college of William and Mary. Married Martha Wayles Kelton in 1772. A silent member of the congress. Drafted the Declaration of Independence. -
Enabling Act
President Jefferson signs the Enabling Act, establishing procedures under which territories organized under the Ordinance of 1787 can become a state. The law effectively authorizes people of the Ohio territory to hold a convention and frame a constitution. -
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James Madison
Fourth president born on 1751 in Orange County Virginia. Attended Princeton. Served in the Continental congress. -
Secretary of Treasury
Madison persuades Albert Gallatin to remain secretary of treasury in the face of strong congressional opposition and discord within Madison's cabinet. -
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James Monroe
Fifth president born in Westmoreland County Virginia on 1758. Attended the college of William and Mary. Fought the distinction in the continental army. Died in 1831 -
Missouri Compromise
One of James Monroe biggest accomplishment is the Missouri Compromise. It proposed that slavery be prohibited. -
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John Quincy Adams
Sixth president born in Massachusetts on 1767. Son of John and Abigail Adams. Member of the House of Representatives. Served as a diplomat. Graduated from Harvard college. Became a lawyer. -
ports closed to British
Adams proclaims all American ports closed to trade with British colonies, suspending disagreements from an era of protracted contention with the British over tariffs, navigation and duties. Adams's declaration embodies his response to a rising Continental cartel of exclusive trading relationships. -
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Andrew Jackson
Seventh president born in backwoods settlement in the Carolinas on 1764. Received sporadic education. First man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives. -
Indian removal act
Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, sanctioning the forcible relocation of Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes to land allotments west of the Mississippi river. Ninety-four removal treaties follow the bill's enactment. From 1835 to 1838, Cherokee and Creek are forcibly removed from the Southeast onto reservations. Nearly one quarter die along what became known as the “Trail of Tears.” -
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Martin Van Buren
Eight president born on 1821 in Kinderhook New York. Was the prosperous when the Little Magician was elected. -
Independent Treasury Act
By signing the Independent Treasury Act, Van Buren “divorces” the federal Treasury Department from its relationship with all banks. His action stems from the controversy surrounding the Deposit Act of 1836. The Whigs will repeal the Independent Treasury Act in 1841; it will be restored in 1846. -
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John Tyler
Tenth president born in Virginia on 1790. Vice president of Henry Harrison. Joined the states right Southerners in congress. Served in the House of Representatives. -
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William Henry Harrison
Ninth president born in Berkeley on 1773. Served as aide-de-camp to general. Became governor of the Indiana territory. In the 32nd day he became the first to die in office. Shortest tenure in the U.S presidential history. -
Webster- Ashburton Treaty
The signing of the Webster- Ashburton Treaty normalizes U.S.-British relations by adjusting the Maine-Brunswick border, settling boundary issues around western Lake Superior, and resurveying numerous smaller borders. -
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James K.Polk
11th president born in Pineville NC on 1795. In the House of Representatives. Chief lieutenant of Jackson in his Bank war. Served as speaker between 1835 and 1839 leaving to become governor of Tennessee. Known as dark horse. Graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina. -
The Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between British and American claims to the Oregon Territory, granting the United States clear title to present-day Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana, while granting to Britain territory above the 49th parallel and full control over Vancouver Island. -
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Zachary Taylor
12th president born in Virginia on 1784. A general and national hero. Served in the army from the time of the Mexican-American war and the war of 1812. -
Compromise of 1850
Congress debates solutions to the issue of slavery's possible expansion into the territories won in the Mexican War. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850, and Daniel Webster with Stephen Douglas lead its supporters against the measure's opponents who coalesce around John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. -
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Millard Fillmore
13th president born in the Finger lakes county of New York on 1800. A member of the Whig party. Attended one room schools who there found his wife Abigail Powers. Was first elected vice president in 1848. -
Treaty with El Salvador
Acting on long-held interest in gaining influence in Central America, the United States ratifies its first commercial treaty with El Salvador. -
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Franklin Pierce
14th president born in Hillsborough New Hampshire on 1804. Attended Bowdoin college studied law then politics. Was elected to the New Hampshire legislature then became its speaker. Went from representative then senator. Hooped to ease the divisions the led eventually to civil war. -
Kansa- Nebraska Act
President Franklin Pierce signed on the Kansa Nebraska act which was designed to solve the issue of expanding slavery into the territories, but failed -
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James Buchanan
15th president born into a well to do Pennsylvania family on 1791. Graduated from Dickinson college. Elected five times to the House of Representatives. Became Polk's secretary of state and pierce's minister to Great Britain. Served prior to the American civil war. -
Constitutional Union Party Nominates Bell
The Constitutional Union Party, comprised of remnants from the Whig and American parties, nominates John Bell for the presidency and Edward Everett for the vice presidency. -
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Abraham Lincoln
16th president born Feb 12 1809 in Hardin County Kentucky. Son of a Kentucky frontiersman. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation and declared forever free those slaves within the confederacy in 1863 -
Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. With it, he freed all slaves in Confederate or contested areas of the South. However, the Proclamation did not include slaves in non-Confederate border states and in parts of the Confederacy under Union control. -
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Andrew Johnson
17th president born in Raleigh North Carolina on 1808. Married Eliza McCardle and participated in debates at the local academy. Opened a tailor shop in Greenville. Grew up in poverty. Pronounced state's rights view. -
vetoes the Civil Rights Act
Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act, a second attempt by Congress to provide freedmen with federal citizenship after the failed Freedmen's Bureau bill. The act sanctions the employment of federal troops for enforcement. The Senate overrides Johnson's veto on April 6. Three days later, the House of Representatives also overrides the veto. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
18th president born on 1822. Son of an Ohio tanner. Graduated in the middle of his class. Fought under Gen in the Mexican war. Led the Union Armies to victory over the confederacy in the American Civil War. Implemented the Congressional Reconstruction and removed the vestiges of slavery. -
passed the civil service reform act
Grant signed the 15th amendment t the constitution giving black man the right to vote and later in 1871 congress passed the civil service reform act. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes
19th president born in Ohio on 1822. Graduated from Kenyon college and Harvard law school. Fought in the Civil War. Moved to Cincinnati. Began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the civil war. Oversaw the end of reconstruction. Entered Congress in December 1865. -
Civil service reform
Following John Jay's investigation of the New York Customhouse, Hayes issues an Executive Order that forbids the involvement of federal employees in political activities. The President takes such action in the hope that it will curtail corruption; the Executive Order stipulates that those in office can no longer be dismissed for political reasons. Congress rejects additional proposals. These events testify to Hayes's interest in civil service reform. -
Removes Nominations
On the eve of the senatorial vote on the New York nominees, Garfield learns that Conkling intends to delay action on other nominees and moves for adjournment before Robertson can be considered. Garfield removes all of his nominations with the exception of Robertson. -
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Chester A. Arthur
21st president born in Fairfield Vermont on 1829. Graduated from Union college in 1848. Served quartermaster general of state of New York in the civil war. Son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland. -
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James Garfield
20th president born in Cuyahoga County Ohio on 1831. Assassinated after 200 days of his Presidency. Graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Elected to the Ohio senate in 1859 as a republican. -
Washington day
Arthur issues a proclamation recommending the observance of the 100th anniversary of General George Washington returning his commission as commander-in-chief to the Continental Congress. -
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Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th president born in New Jersey on 1837 raised in upstate New York. Elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and later governor of New York. Married 21 year old Frances Folsom. First elected after the Civil war. Was the only president to leave the white house and return for a second term four years later -
Statue of Liberty
Cleveland recommends to Congress that the nation accept France's gift of the Statue of Liberty. The gift commemorates the alliance between the two countries during the Revolutionary War. The statue will be placed on Liberty Island, adjacent to Ellis Island off the New Jersey coast. Ellis Island will serve as a welcoming center for the soaring number of immigrants to New York City. -
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William McKinley
25th president born in Nile Ohio on 1872. Attended Allegheny college and was teaching in a country school when the civil war broke out. Studied law opened a office in Canton Ohio. Married Ida Saxton. Assassinated on September 14 1901. Led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raised tariffs to promote American industry. -
War Revenue Act
McKinley signs the war Revenue Act into law and later signs the Curtis act into law. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th president born in New York on 1858. Married Alice Lee Roosevelt and on 1884 his wife and mother died on the same day. Remarried to Edith Carow in December. Was the youngest president in Nation history. Brough new excitement and power to the office. Led congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. -
Department of Commerce and Labor created
Roosevelt signs a bill creating the Department of Commerce and Labor, the ninth Cabinet office, which will itself emerge as two separate departments in 1913. -
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William Howard Taft
27th president born on 1857. Graduated from Yale, retuned to Cincinnati to study law. Made secretary of war. Became the tenth chief Justice of the United State. The only person to have served in both of the offices. -
Travel aboard
President Theodore Roosevelt travels to Panama, becoming the first U.S. president to travel abroad while in office. -
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Woodrow Wilson
29th president born in Virginia on 1856. Was a pastor in Augusta. Graduated from Princeton and the University of Virginia Law school. Married in 1885 to Ellen Louise Axson. A leader of the progressive movement. Led America into war in order to make the world safe for democracy. -
Completing the Panama Canal
From the White House, President Wilson detonates a charge to destroy the Gamboa Dike in Panama, leading to the completion of the Panama -
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Warren G. Harding
29th president born near Marion, Ohio on 1865. Was trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church. Was sensitive to plights of minorities and woman. Died in San Francisco of a heart attack. -
Emergency Tariff Act
In response to American public opinion, Harding and Congress pass the Emergency Tariff Act. Raising tariffs, especially on farm products, the temporary bill will be replaced one year later by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, a permanent bill with even higher tariff rates. Designed to protect American products and end the post-war recession, such protectionist legislation ultimately destabilizes international commerce by heightening economic nationalism. -
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Calvin Cooidge
30th president born in Plymouth, Vermont on July 4 1872. Son of a village storekeeper. Graduated from Amherst college with honors. -
Revenue Act becomes law
Coolidge signs the Revenue Act into law, as Harding's policy of “normalcy” morphs into keeping “cool with Coolidge.” With the goal of cutting the size of the Federal government, the Act reduces income taxes as well as other duties. While it helps the Republican Party weather the investigations of corruption under Harding, it further weakens the already deteriorating national economy. -
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Herbert Hoover
31st president born in Iowa Village on 1874. Enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891. Graduated as a mining engineer. Married his Stanford sweetheart Lou Henry. Soon of a Quaker blacksmith. Died at 90 in New York. -
Veterans Administration Act
Hoover signs the Veterans Administration Act, establishing the Veterans Administration. The act consolidates all existing federal agencies handling benefits for former servicemen into a single department -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president born on 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. Attended Harvard University and Columba Law school. Married Elanor Roosevelt on 1905. Fifth cousin of president Theodore Roosevelt. Helped the American people regain faith in themselves. Brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural address " the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". -
Word Labor boarder
By executive order, FDR creates the War Labor Board (WLB), charged with maintaining the flow of war materials through the arbitration of labor disputes. Four days later, the Office of Production Management (OPM) will be replaced by the War Production Board (WPB). -
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Harry S. Truman
33rd president born in Lama Missouri on 1884. For 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. Married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. Went to France during WW1 as captain in the field Artillery. Became senator in 1934. -
Social Security Amendment
Truman signs the 1950 Social Security Amendments, expanding coverage and increasing benefits. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34t president born in Texas on 1890. Third of seven sons. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant. Married Mamie Geneva Doud. Became president of Columbia University. Supreme commander of the troops invading France. -
Refugee Relief Act of 1953
Eisenhower signs the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, admitting 214,000 more immigrants than permitted under existing immigration quotas. -
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John F. Kennedy
33th president born in Brookline Massachusetts on may 29 1917. Graduated from Harvard in 1940. Entered the navy, married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12 1955. Youngest man elected to the office. Was assassinated in Dallas Texas becoming the youngest president to die. -
man on the moon
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy in an address to Congress challenged the nation to “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon.” He asked Congress to find additional funds to support the nation's space program. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
36th president born on August 27 1908 in central Texas. Married Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor in 1934. A vision to build " A Great Society" for the American People. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race or color, sex, religion or national origin. This act also prohibits discrimination in voter registration as well as segregation in schools, employment and public accommodations. -
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Richard M. Nixion
37th president born in California on 1913. Attended at Whittier college and Duke University law school. Married Patricia Ryan in 1940 had two daughters Tricia and Julie. Served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. -
Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970
Nixon signs the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, which gives the secretary of labor the responsibility of setting workplace safety standards for jobs in the United States. -
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Gerald R. Ford
38th president born in Omaha Nebraska on 1913. Was the House minority leader. Starred on the University of Michigan football team then went to Yale. Served as assistant coach while earning his law degree. Married Elizabeth Bloomer had four children Michael, John, Steven, and Susan. -
Freedom of Information Act passed
The Freedom of Information Act is passed over Ford's veto. It provides expanded access to government files and allows secrecy classifications to be challenged in court and justified by the appropriate federal authorities. -
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James Carter
39th president born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. Upon graduation in 1946 from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Carter married Rosalynn Smith. The Carters have three sons, John William, James Earl III, Donnel Jeffrey, and a daughter, Amy Lynn. -
Mediation at Camp David
Carter mediates talks between Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt at Camp David, resulting in a peace treaty between the two nations. -
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Ronald Reagan
40th president born February 6 1911. Son of John Reagan and Nelle. Attended high school nearby Dixion went Eureka college. Studied economics, sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Married actress Jane Wyman who passed in 2001 and then married Nancy Davis on 1952 -
State of the Union
Reagan calls for “New Federalism” in his State of the Union address, advocating less federal spending and more state initiative to solve social and economic problems. -
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George H.W. Bush
41st president Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924. Enlisted in the armed forces. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action. Married Barbara Pierce. -
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, leading to substantial reductions in nuclear weapons stockpiles. -
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William J. Clinton
42nd president born on August 19 1946 in Hope Arkansas. Graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. -
Clinton Signs NAFTA
On December 8, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which eliminated nearly every trade barrier between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, creating the world's largest free trade zone. -
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George W. Bush
43rd president born in New Haven, Connecticut. Was transformed into a wartime President in the aftermath of the airborne terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, facing the “greatest challenge of any President since Abraham Lincoln.” -
No Child Left Behind
President Bush signs an education reform bill with bipartisan support; this reauthorized the Johnson-era Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Known as the No Child Left Behind Act, it offers local authorities greater flexibility in spending federal dollars, but requires standardized math and reading tests. -
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Barack Obama
44th president Obama married Michelle Robinson, a lawyer who had also excelled at Harvard Law. Their daughters, Malia and Sasha, were born in 1998 and 2001. Went to Harvard Law School -
Signing of first bill
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act become law. The bill makes it easier for people to challenge unequal pay complaints and is designed to help address the wage gap between men and women. -
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Donald Trump
45th president born in Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946. Married Melania Knauss. They have one son, Barron. Trump also has four adult children from previous marriages: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany. Was educated at the New York Military Academy and the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. -
Travel ban
President Trump signs an executive order that denies entry into the United States for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, and suspends the Refugee Admissions Policy for 120 days. Trump’s travel ban sparks large protests and legal challenges. As a result of legal challenges, Trump revises the executive order. -
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Joe Biden
current president married Jill Jacobs in 1977. English professor at a community college in Virginia. -
Lowering Costs of Families’ Everyday Expenses