U.S presidents extra credit

George Washington – First U.S. president

John Adams – Alien Sedition Acts

Thomas Jefferson – Bought Louisiana Territory

James Madison – War of 1812

James Monroe – Monroe Doctrine statement

John Quincy Adams – “Corrupt Bargain” election

Andrew Jackson – Trail of Tears

Martin Van Buren – Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison – Died in office

John Tyler – Annexed Texas

James K. Polk – Mexican-American War

Zachary Taylor – Compromise debate tensions

Millard Fillmore – Fugitive Slave Act

Franklin Pierce – Kansas-Nebraska Act

James Buchanan – Failed stop secession

Abraham Lincoln – Freed the slaves

Andrew Johnson – Fought Reconstruction plans

Ulysses S. Grant – Reconstruction support efforts

Rutherford B. Hayes – Ended Reconstruction

James A. Garfield – Assassinated early

Chester A. Arthur – Civil service reform

Grover Cleveland – Many vetoes

Benjamin Harrison – Sherman Antitrust Act

Grover Cleveland (again) – Pullman Strike

William McKinley – Spanish-American War

Theodore Roosevelt – Trust-busting reforms

William Howard Taft – Dollar diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson – World War I

When are you presenting? December 17th during lunch