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Presidential Tri-bond

Presidential Tri-bond. George Washington. Presided at the Constitutional Convention Avoided confrontations that would destroy his army during the Revolutionary War Presided over the US as the first President. Thomas Jefferson. Wrote the Declaration of Independence Louisiana Purchase

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Presidential Tri-bond

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  1. Presidential Tri-bond

  2. George Washington • Presided at the Constitutional Convention • Avoided confrontations that would destroy his army during the Revolutionary War • Presided over the US as the first President

  3. Thomas Jefferson • Wrote the Declaration of Independence • Louisiana Purchase • “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these . . .

  4. James Madison • Daddy of the Constitution---Took copious notes at Constitutional Convention and wrote Virginia Plan • Used George Mason and Thomas Jefferson’s ideas to write Bill of Rights • Supported War of 1812 in opposition to the Federalists Party

  5. James Monroe • Monroe Doctrine • Democratic Republican • Capital of Liberia named Monrovia

  6. Andrew Jackson spoiled people who helped him get elected with jobs Nullification Crisis Era of the Common Man

  7. Abraham Lincoln First Republican president—party opposed spread of slavery started with Kansas-Nebraska Act His election in 1860 caused 7 southern states to secede Emancipation Proclamation

  8. Andrew Johnson Became president when Lincoln was assassinated Weak, so Radical Republicans took more power and supported civil rights and military occupation Impeached but not removed from office

  9. Teddy Roosevelt • Built the Panama Canal • Busted trusts (monopolies) • Military hero in Spanish-American War

  10. William Howard Taft Age of Imperialism Dollar Diplomacy Special bathtub

  11. Woodrow Wilson Asked Congress to declare war on Germany because of unrestricted submarine warfare “Make the world safe for democracy.” 14 Points—Mandate System, Freedom of the Seas, Self-Determination and League of Nations

  12. Franklin D. Roosevelt • New Deal—FDIC, AAA, CCC, Social Security • “It’s like lending a garden hose to a neighbor’s house who is on fire.” • “A date that will live in infamy.”

  13. Harry Truman • Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Truman Doctrine • UN forces in Korea to contain communism

  14. Dwight Eisenhower • General that planned D-Day invasion • Cold War president • Massive Retaliation

  15. John F. Kennedy • Started sending troops to Vietnam • Cuban Missile Crisis • Bay of Pigs invasion

  16. LBJ—Lyndon Johnson • Escalated war in Vietnam • Worked to get Congress to pass Civil Rights legislation • Became president when JFK was assassinated

  17. Richard Nixon • Vietnamized War with Vietnam • Used the split between communist China and communist USSR to advantage of US • Left office because of Watergate Scandal

  18. Ronald Reagan • Cut taxes • Helped to end the Cold War • “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

  19. George HW Bush • Persian Gulf War—first war women served in combat • Germany reunified • Collapse of USSR

  20. Bill Clinton • NAFTA—North American Trade Agreement • Centrist Democrat • Conflict in Yugoslavia

  21. George W. Bush • Attacks on 9/11 • Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq • Patriot Act

  22. Event Tri-bond

  23. Middle Colonies Presbyterians in New Jersey Religious tolerance Jobs including—small farms, trading shipbuilding

  24. New England Colonies Presbyterians in New Jersey Religious tolerance Jobs including—small farms, trading shipbuilding

  25. Revolutionary War Thomas Paine’s ideas encouraged us to break free of Britain French allied with the United States At the end of the war, weak Articles of Confederation result of British Rule

  26. Marbury v. Madison John Marshall was Chief Justice Gave more power to the Supreme Court Allows Supreme Court to nullify laws made by Congress

  27. Civil War Fort Sumter was opening confrontation US Grant was Union General Robert E. Lee was the Confederate General

  28. Emancipation Proclamation Freed slaves in rebelling Confederate states Issued by Abraham Lincoln Made ending slavery a goal of the Civil War

  29. Reasons for the Great Depression Federal Reserve Bank contracted the money supply Hawley-Smoot Tariff Law of 1930 Stock Market Crash

  30. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill NAACP Desegregated schools

  31. Civil Rights Act, 1964 Desegregated everything Ended legal job discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, etc. Pushed by Lyndon Johnson

  32. Voting Act, 1965 Ended poll taxes Ended literacy tests for voting Sent federal registrars to the South to register African-American voters

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