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29 Cards in this Set
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STARTER CARD Who has: I wasn't a member of a political party & warned against parties. I lent my prestige to the Constitutional Convention after leading the Continental Army |
I have: George Washington |
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Who has: I was the first Federalist president and one of the leaders of the party. |
I have: John Adams |
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Who has: I was leader of the Democratic-Republicans. My win in 1800 led to the first peaceful transition of power. I purchased the Louisiana Territory. |
I have: Thomas Jefferson |
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Who has: I was president during the War of 1812. I am called the Father of the Constitution. I created the VA Plan. |
I have: James Madison |
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Who has: I issued a foreign policy statement that prohibited European colonization in the Americas unless they wanted us to take it as a threat. |
I have: James Monroe |
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Who has: I was the president who beat out Andrew Jackson in 1824 but was accused of having a "Corrupt Bargain" with Henry Clay. |
I have: John Q. Adams |
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Who has: I had the Spoils System. I was considered the "common man's president". They called me Old Hickory. |
I have: Andrew Jackson |
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Who has: After Mexico rejected Texas annexation, I led the nation into the Mexican-American War. |
I have: James Polk |
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Who has: I gave two awesome speeches: Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. I stated that Reconstruction should operate "with malice towards none, with charity for all". |
I have: Abraham Lincoln |
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Who has: I became president after Lincoln was assassinated. I frequently clashed with the Radical Republicans in Congress. |
I have: Andrew Johnson |
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Who has: I was President for most of Reconstruction. I also led the Union Army during the Civil War. |
I have: Ulysses S. Grant |
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Who has: The Compromise of 1877 made me the winner of the election of 1876. This led to the end of Reconstruction |
I have: Rutherford B. Hayes |
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Who has: I was the president during the Spanish-American War. |
I have: William McKinley |
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Who has: I was the president who encouraged Panama's independence from Colombia and then set up a deal to build the Panama Canal. Leader of the "Rough Riders" during the Spanish-American War. |
I have: Teddy Roosevelt |
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Who has: I was the president who encouraged Dollar Diplomacy in Latin America. |
I have: William H. Taft |
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Who has: I said we entered WWI to "make the world safe for democracy". My plan for world peace was called the 14 Points. |
I have: Woodrow Wilson |
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Who has: I was the President at the beginning of the Great Depression. |
I have: Herbert Hoover |
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Who has: I was a 4 term President. Regarding the Great Depression, I said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and came up with the New Deal plan. I led the country during most of WWII. |
I have: Franklin Roosevelt |
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Who has: I dropped the bomb on Japan to end WWII. The overall Cold War policy doctrine to contain communism is named after me. |
I have: Harry S. Truman |
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Who has: I led Allied troops during Operation Overlord/D-Day. My Cold War policy of "massive retaliation" was very threatening. |
I have: Dwight Eisenhower |
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Who has: while I was president, the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. I was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. |
I have: John F. Kennedy |
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Who has: I escalated troop numbers in the Vietnam War. I also signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. |
I have: Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Who has: I was the leader of the House Committee on un-American Activities. I pledged to get us out of Vietnam with "Vietnamization". I was driven from office by the Watergate Scandal. |
I have: Richard Nixon |
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Who has: I had a failing president that included the Iran Hostage Crisis. My unpopularity helped lead to the rise of Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party. |
I have: Jimmy Carter. |
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Who has: I put pressure on the USSR, which helped lead to their collapse. My policies of tax cuts, smaller government, and bigger military greatly influenced the Republican Party for decades. |
I have: Ronald Reagan |
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Who has: While I was president, we had Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, the USSR collapsed, Yugoslavia collapsed, and Germany reunified. |
I have: George H. W. Bush |
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Who has: I signed NAFTA, threatened South Africa with sanctions until they ended apartheid, intervened with NATO in Yugoslavia, and resumed full diplomatic relations with Vietnam |
I have: Bill Clinton |
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Who has: I led the US in the War in Afghanistan, following 9/11, signed the Patriot Act, and led the US in the War in Iraq |
I have: George W. Bush |
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Who has: I ended the Reagan Revolution with my historic election. |
I have: Barack Obama |
