Presidential Flashcards

Flashcards of Presidential Events

Who created the Great Society?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Who created the New Deal?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who was president during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

Who was president during WWII?

Franklin Roosevelt, Truman

Who championed Manifest Destiny?

James K. Polk

Who was the main author of the Constitution?

James Madison

Who was president during the War of 1812?

James Madison

Who won the 'Corrupt Bargain' election?

John Quincy Adams

Who officially ended Reconstruction?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Who was president during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover

Who advocated for the 'Big Stick' policy?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who advocated for 'Dollar Diplomacy'?

William Howard Taft

Who implemented the 'New Look Military' strategy with 'Massive Retaliation'?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who advocated for the League of Nations?

Woodrow Wilson

Who ushered in the 'Age of the Common Man'?

Andrew Jackson

Who made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb?

Harry Truman

Who was president during the Spanish-American War?

William McKinley

Who authorized the Louisiana Purchase?

Thomas Jefferson

Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

John F. Kennedy

Who was president during Watergate?

Richard Nixon

Who was president during the Iran Hostage Crisis?

Jimmy Carter

Who was president during 9/11?

George W. Bush

Who oversaw the rise of the Conservative Right/Moral Majority?

Ronald Reagan

Who was president during the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Franklin Pierce

Who was president during the Tenure of Office Act?

Andrew Johnson

Who was president during the National Origins Act?

Calvin Coolidge