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Can anybody list for me every past president and what they did in there time as the president? and any fact you can give me about all the past wars?

no reason, just for the sake of knowledge.

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Answer #1

William Henry Harrison, 1841

Whig VP - John Tyler Secretary of State - Daniel Webster

John Tyler, 1841-1845

Anti-Jackson Democrat ran as VP on Whig ticket Secretary of State - Daniel Webster Major Items:

  Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 
  Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of the United States 
  Canadian Border set at 45th parallel

James K. Polk, 1845-1849

original “dark horse” candidate Democrat VP - Dallas Major Items:

 Manifest Destiny 
 Texas becomes a state, 1845 
 Oregon boundary settled, 1846 
 Mexican War, 1846-1848 
 Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, 1848 
 Wilmot Proviso

Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850

Whig VP - Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853

Whig Secretary of State - Daniel Webster Major Items:

 Compromise of 1850 
 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850 (Britain and U. S. agree not to expand in Central America if the canal is 
 built) 
 Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857

Democrat VP - King Major Items:

 Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854 
 popular sovereignty 
 Japan opened to world trade, 1853 
 Underground Railroad 
 Bleeding Kansas 
 Ostend Manifesto, 1854

James Buchanan, 1857-1861

Democrat VP- Breckinridge Major Items:
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 Dred Scott decision, 1857 
 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 
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Civil War, 1861-1865

Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

Republican VP - Andrew Johnson Secretary of State - William H. Seward (New York) Secretary of Treasury - Salmon P. Chase Secretary of War - Edwin M. Stanton Major Items:
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 Civil War, 1861-1865 
 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 
 Homestead Act, 1862 
 Morill Act, 1862 (created agricultural colleges) 
 Assassinated April 14th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth 
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Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Andrew Johnson, 1865, 1869

Republican Secretary of State - William H. Seward Major Items:

 13th Amendment, 1865 
 14th Amendment, 1868 
 Reconstruction Act, 1867 
 Tenure of Office Act, 1867 
 Impeachment Trial, 1868 
 Formation of KKK 
 Adoption of Black Codes in the South

Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877

Republican VP - Colfax, Wilson Secretary of State - Hamilton Fish Major Items:

  15th Amendment, 1870 
  First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 
  Tweed Ring 
  Panic of 1873 
  Crédit Mobilier 
  Whiskey Ring 
  Indian Ring

Gilded Age, 1877-1900

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881

Republican VP - Wheeler Major Items:

 Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinage of silver) 
 Troops withdrawn from the South, 1877

Answer #2

wow ok…

George Washington, 1789-1797

VP - John Adams Secretary of State - Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury - Alexander Hamilton Major Items:

  Judiciary Act, 1789 
  Tariff of 1789 
  Whiskey Rebellion, 1799 
  French Revolution - Citizen Genét, 1793 
  Jay Treaty with England, 1795 
  Pinckney Treaty with Spain, 1795 
  Farewell Address, 1796 
  First Bank of United States , 1791-1811

John Adams, 1797-1801

Federalist VP - Thomas Jefferson Major Items:

  XYZ Affair, 1797 
  Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798 
  Naturalization Act 
  "Midnight Judges," 1801 
  Kentucky (Jefferson) and Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, 1798

Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809

Republican VP - Aaron Burr Secretary of State - James Madison Major Items:

  Marbury v. Madison, 1803 
  Louisiana Purchase, 1803 
  Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1805 
  12th Amendment, 1804 
  Embargo Act, 1807 
  Non-Intercourse Act, 1809

James Madison, 1809-1817

Republican VP - George Clinton Secretary of State - James Monroe Major Items:

  Macon Act, 1810 
  Berlin and Milan Decrees 
  Orders in Council 
  "War Hawks," 1811-1812 
  War of 1812 
  Hartford Convention, 1814 
  First Protective Tariff, 1816

Era of Good Feelings and the Era of the Common Man, 1815-1840

James Monroe, 1817-1825

Republican VP - Tompkins Secretary of State - John Quincy Adams Major Items:

  Marshall's Decisions:  McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819; 
  Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 
  Acquisition of Florida from Spain, 1819 
  Transcontinental or Adam-Oñis Treaty, 1819 
  Missouri Compromise, 1820 
  Monroe Doctrine, 1823 
  Sectional Tariff, 1824 
  Favorite Sons Election [Jackson, J. Q. Adams, Crawford, Clay], 1824

John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829

National Republican VP - John C. Calhoun Secretary of State - Henry Clay Major Items:
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  "Corrupt Bargain" 
  Erie Canal, 1825 
  Tariff of Abominations 
  Calhoun's Exposition and Protest, 1828 
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Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837

Democrat VP - John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren Major Items:

  Jacksonian Democracy 
  Tariffs of 1832 and 1833 
  The 2nd Bank of the United States (due to expire in 1836) 
  Formation of the Whig Party, 1832

Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841

Democrat VP - Richard M. Johnson Major Items:

  Panic of 1837 
  Specie Circular, no Bank of the United States 
  Unsound financing by state governments

Ante-Bellum Period, 1840-1860

Answer #3

James A Garfield, March 4 to September 19, 1881

Republican VP - Chester A. Arthur Secretary of State - James A. Blaine Major Items:
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 Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau 
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Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885

Republican Secretary of State - James A. Blaine Major Items:
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 Pendleton Act, 1883 (set up civil service commission) 
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Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889

Democrat VP - Hendricks Major Items:

 Knights of Labor, 1886 
 Haymarket Riot, 1886 
 Interstate Commerce Act, 1887 
 Washburn v. Illinois, 1886

Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

Republican VP - Morton Secretary of State - James A. Blaine Major Items:

 Sherman Anti-trust Act, 1890 
 Populist Party Platform, 1892 
 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington become states, 1889 
 Idaho and Wyoming become states, 1890 
 McKinley Tariff, 1890 
 Sherman Act, 1890

Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897

Second Administration (only President to serve two non-consecutive terms) Democrat VP - Stevenson Major Items:

 Panic of 1893 
 Hawaiian incident, 1893 
 Venezuelan Boundary Affair, 1895 
 Pullman Strike, 1894 
 American Federation of Labor 
 Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894

William McKinley, 1897-1901

Republican VP - Garet Hobart, 1896-1900 VP - Theodore Roosevelt Secretary of State - John Hay Major Items:

 New Imperialism 
 Spanish-American War, April 1898 - February 1899 
 Open Door Policy, 1899 
 Boxer Rebellion, 1900 
 McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, 1901

Progressive Age, 1900-1920

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908

Republican VP - Fairbanks Secretary of State - John Hay, Elihu Root Major Items:

 Panama Canal, 1903-1914 
 "Square Deal" 
 Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 
 Portsmouth Treaty, 1905 
 Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, 1904 
 Hague Conferences, 1899 and 1907 
 Hepburn Act, 1906 
 Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers", 1906 
 Political reforms of the Roosevelt Era 
 Trust-busting 
 Coal Strike 
 Conservation 
 Venezuelan Debt Controversy, 1902 
 Dominican Republic Crisis, 1902 
 Algerian Conference over Morocco, 1906

William Howard Taft, 1909-1913

Republican VP - Sherman Major Items:

 Paine-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 
 Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909 (conservation v. reclamation) 
 "Dollar Diplomacy"

Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921

Democrat VP - Marshall Major Items:

 Underwood Tariff, 1913 
 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments 
 Federal Reserve System, 1913 
 Glassower Act, 1913 
 Federal trade Commission, 1914 
 Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914 
 Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico 
 The Lusitania, May 1915 
 "Fourteen Points," January 1917 
 Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920 
 "New Freedom"

Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929

Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923

“Dark Horse” candidate Republican VP - Calvin Coolidge Secretary of State - Charles Evans Hughes Major Items:
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 Teapot Dome Scandal 
 Washington Conference, 1921-1922 
 Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922
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Answer #4

Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929

Republican VP - Dawes Secretary of State - Frank Kellogg Major Items:
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 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 
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Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

Republican VP - Curtis Secretary of State - Henry L. Stimson Major Items:

 National Origins Immigration Act, 1929 
 Panic and Depression 
 Stock market Crash, 1929 
 Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930

The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1920-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945

Democrat VP - Garner, Wallace, Truman Major Items:
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 New Deal 
 "Alphabet soup" bureaucracies 
 World War 2 
 Labor reforms 
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Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953

Democrat VP - Barkley Major Items:

 World War 2 ends 
 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945 
 Taft-Harley Act, 1947 
 Truman Doctrine, 1947 
 Marshall Plan, 1947 
 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949 
 Korean War, 1950-1953 
 "Fair Deal"

The Cold War, 1945-1968

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961

Republican VP - Nixon Major Items:

 22nd Amendment 
 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 
 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) 
 Suez Crisis, 1956 
 Eisenhower Doctrine 
 the "race for space" 
 Alaska and Hawaii become states, 1959

John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963

Democrat VP - Lyndon B. Johnson Major Items:

 Alliance for Progress 
 Baker v. Carr, 1962 
 Peace Corps 
 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 
 "New Frontier" 
 Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty 
 Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1968

Democrat VP - Humphrey Major Items:

 The "Cold War" 
 Cuban Policy 
 Income tax cut 
 Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964 
 Civil Rights Act, 1964 
 Voting Rights Act, 1965 
 Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 
 Elementary and Secondary education reform 
 Medicare 
 "Great Society"

Detente and Rapprochement, 1968 - present

Richard M. Nixon, 1968-1974

Republican VP - Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford Major Items:

 "Imperial Presidency" 
 Landing on the moon, July 1969 
 Warren Burger, Chief Justice, 1969 
 Woodstock, August 1969 
 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established, 1970 
 16th Amendment, 1971 
 Visit to China, February 1972 
 Visit to Russia, May 1972 
 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), 1972 
 Kissinger and "shuttle diplomacy," 1973-1975 
 Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973 
 Allende regime in Chile overthrown with the help of the CIA, September 1973 
 Agnew resigns, 1973 
 Nixon resigns, August 9, 1974 
 Pentagon Papers, August 30, 1971 (superior court allows the NY Times to publish)

Gerald Ford, 1974-1976

Republican 1st appointed President VP - Nelson Rockefeller Neither President nor Vice-President had been elected Major Items:
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 Pardons Richard Nixon 
 OPEC crisis, 1974 
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Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981

Democrat VP - Walter Mondale Major Items:

 Panama Canal Treaty signed, September 1977 
 Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan 
 Three-Mile Island Incident, March 1979 (nuclear reactor leak in Pennsylvania) 
 Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Prize, 1979 
 Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979 (rescue attempt, 8 killed, April 1980) 
 Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets, 1979 
 "Stagflation" 
 Boycott of Olympics in Moscow to protest invasion of Afghanistan

Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989

Republican VP - George Bush Major Items:

 Hostages returned 
 Falkland Islands Crisis, 1982 (U. S. supports England) 
 1500 Marines sent to Beirut, 1983; withdrawn in 1984 
 Grenada, October 1983 
 Nicaragua, 1984 
 Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court 
 "Supply-side economics" 
 Iran-Contra Hearings, Summer 1987 (Oliver North)

George Bush, 1989- 1993

Republican VP - Dan Quayle Major Items:

 Savings and Loan Scandal, 1990 
 Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany 
 Invasion of Panama, 1990 
 Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War), January to August 1992

Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

Democrat VP - Al Gore Major Items:

 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1993 
 Proposes a national health care system, 1993 
 Participates in air strikes in Bosnia, 1994 
 Participates in air strikes in Iraq 
 Sex scandal, 1998 
 Participates in air strikes on Serbia, 1999

then duh george bush

Pequot War (1637) Iroquois War (1642-1653) King Philip’s War (1675-1676) King William’s War a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#1) (1689-1697) Queen Anne’s War a.k.a. War of the Spanish Succession a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#2) (1702) Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713) Dummer’s War a.k.a. Lovewell’s War (1721-1725) War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739-1742) King George’s War a.k.a. War of the Austrian Succession a.k.a. French and Indian Wars (#3) (1744-1748) French and Indian War (#4) a.k.a. Seven Years’ War (1754-1763, although some say 1756-1763) American Revolution (1763-1789) Whiskey Rebellion (1794) Tripolitan War (1801-1805) War of 1812 (1812-1814) Creek Indian War (1813-1814) War against Algeria (1815) First Seminole War (1817-1818) Black Hawk War (1832) Second Seminole War (1835-1842) The Alamo (1836) Battle of San Jacinto (1836) The Caroline Affair (1837-1842) Aroostock War (1838-1839) Antirent War a.k.a. Helderberg War (1839-1846) the Creole incident (1841-1842) Dorr’s Rebellion (1842) Catholic riots in Philadelphia (1844) War with Mexico a.k.a Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Wakarusa War (1855, 1856) Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) The Civil War (1861-1865) Irish riot of 1871 (1871) Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) Anti-Chinese Riots (1877) Nez Perce war (1877) Controversey of 1889 (1889) Sitting Bull (1890) mob in Valparaiso (1891) miners riot (1894) The Spanish American War (1898) Philippine-American War (1899) war with China (1900) World War 1 (1917-1918) World War 2 (1941-1945) Korean War (1950-1953) Vietnam War (1961-1973) Persian Gulf War (1991) geeze the facts would take me forever

Answer #5

wow…^thats a lot of words

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