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| George Washington | Commander in chief during the revolutionary war; first preseident; created the new government; persuated the American people to put their trust in a central government. |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president; remembered for his belief in the natural rights of man as written in the Declaration of Independence and his faith in the people to govern themselves. |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president; was a strong leader during the War of 1812; was thought of as a champion of the common man. |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th Predident; was in office during the Civil War. Issued Emancipation Proclamation; took a broad view of presidential powers. |
| Teddy Roosevelt | 26th president; became president after the assassination of McKinley; continued regulation of big business; began national parks; Supported the war effort. Balance of power realism. |
| FD Roosevelt | 32nd president; president during the Great Depression; saw national governmetn as the instrument of the general welfacre; established the New Deal; restored national morale and remolded American Life. Began a long campaign to wake Amrica from her isolationist slumber. |
| Harry Truman | 33rd president; became president after the death of FDR; know as an agressive internationalist who envisioned the US as a world leader with a mission to spread democracy. Adopted measures to block Soviet expansion into Western Europe. |
| Nixon | 37th president; was elected while Vietnam War was going on. At first put more troops in, then is known for tqaking them out. Detente was will known under hm. Resigned under threat of impeachment due to Watergate scandal. |
| Ford | 38th president; became president when Nixon resigned. Presided over the evacuation of Vietnam. |
| Carter | 39th president; had moderate econoomic views, commited to Civil Rights; Panama Canal Treaty and peace agreement between Israel and Egypt; did not do well on the domestic front due to the energy crisis ad the hostages in Iran. |
| Regan | 40th president; built up the military in his first term, practiced detente i the second term; Gutted "Great Society programs (except Social Security). |
| Bush | 41st president; govered by consensus; sent troops to Kuwait; pursued detente with the Soviet Union and old-fashioned intervention - Panama and "drug war". |
| Clinton | 42nd president; served two terms. |
| Obama | 44th president; First American president of African descent. |
