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17 Cards in this Set
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native of NC
added more lan to the US than any other pres by starting a war with Mexico |
James K. Polk
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1st pres. to be impeached
criticized Radical Republicans who wanted to punish the S. for starting the Civil War |
Andrew Johnson
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Iranian hostage crisis, energy crisis; returned the Panama Canal to the Panamanians; Camp David Peace Accords b/w Egypt and Israel
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Jimmy Carter
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Purchades Louisiana
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Thomas Jefferson
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defeated Nixon in 1960; 1st Catholic pres. Cuban Missile Crisis, pledged to put a man on the moon
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John F. Kennedy
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Set exp. for others by serving 2 terms; warned not to make permanent alliances with foreign nations
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George Washington
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not an abolitionist but didn't want slavery to spread
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Abe Lincoln
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made the decision to drop the A bombs; fired Gen. McArthur during the Korean conflict
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Harry Truman
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Vietnamization, "peace with honor"; detente; Watergate; represented the "silent majority
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Richard Nixon
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progressice pres., "Rough Riders"; began the Panama Canal
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Famous after the Battle of New Orleans, forced Cherokee from their lands and GA & NC, attacked the Nat'l Bank
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Andrew Jackson
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Made a deal with Southerners in the HOR to end reconstruction put him into office, began a lot of civil service reforms
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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in a wheelchair, but it didn't cripple hims from guiding the US through the Great Depression w/ his New Deal
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Devised a foreign policy that warned European powers to stay clear of the W. Hemisphere
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James Monroe
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"kept us out of war" in the beginning but couldn't avoid involvement after the Zimmerman Note; 14 pts peace plan; League of Nations
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Woodrow Wilson
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He declared "war on poverty", Great Society; got Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and escalated the war in Vietnam
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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blamed for the Great Depression b/c he didn't thie the fed govt should directly help citizens; "trickle down thwory"
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Herbert Hoover
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