| A | B |
|---|
| William McKinley | shot and killed by an anarchist |
| Bill Clinton | ended welfare as we knew it |
| Ronald Reagan | slashed spending on social programs and dramatically increased military spending, creating the biggest deficit in US history |
| Richard Nixon | threatened with impeachment for a break-in at DNC headquarters, he resigned instead |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | launched "war on poverty" |
| John F. Kennedy | founded the Peace Corps |
| Harry S. Truman | authorized atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | served during the great depression and WWII |
| William Taft | only president to also become a supreme court justice |
| Abraham Lincoln | preserved the union and abolished slavery |
| Andrew Johnson | avoided conviction of his impeachment by one vote |
| Ulysses Grant | Robert E. Lee surrended to this Union general |
| Andrew Jackson | His statue sits in front of the White House in LaFayette Square |
| John Quincy Adams | served the House of Representatives for 17 years after his presidency |
| James Monroe | declared the US would oppose any foreign intervention in the western hemisphere. Doctrine holds true today. |
| James Madison | known as "father of the constitution." Also led efforts to pass the Bill of Rights |
| Thomas Jefferson | penned the phrase"we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," yet owned many slaves |
| John Adams | died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1826 |
| George Washington | became the democratically elected president after leading the country to independence. |
| Grover Cleveland | served two terms but not consecutively |
