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Decision My View of Their Most Important |
Source |
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Other Important Decision |
| Washington |
made it illegal for an American to wage war against any country at peace with the United State with the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793 |
Accepted History | Peace | Finishing this chart would be a good student assignment. |
| Adams, J |
didn't expand the undeclared naval war (called the "Quasi-War") with France, 1798–1800 |
Accepted History | Peace | |
| Madison |
fought the War of 1812 with Britain to stop trade restrictions related to her war with France, the impressments of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honor after humiliations on the high seas, and possible American desire to annex Canada.[3] |
Accepted History |
The U.S. was trying to stop Britain from super
power aggression and using her might to enhance her relation to foreign policy, something the
U.S. would do first to the Caribbean and then around the world.
See Historians' views and Indians as losers "Render onto Cesar the things which are Cesar's..." |
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| Jackson |
continued his battle to relocate original Americans that began when in the military when fighting the First Seminole War by signing the Indian Removal Act into law in 1830. Assimilate or be gone. |
Accepted History |
U.S. territorial expansion continued and those in the way either got out of the way or were run over. | |
| Lincoln |
fought the Civil War and rather than follow the advise of those who believed that economic circumstances would cause slavery to die a natural death. |
Accepted History |
The cost was more than the cumulative cost of all other wars our country has fought, 100 years of poor race relations and no change in civil rights until the 1950's and since then, progress in fits and starts . WNK | |
| Hayes |
Great Railroad Strikes of 1877 caused Hayes sent troops into West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania because the major railroads cut their employees' wages several times. Although no federal troops had killed any of the strikers, or been killed themselves, clashes between state militia troops and strikers resulted in deaths on both sides. |
Accepted History |
the public blamed the railroads for the strikes and violence, and they were compelled to improve working conditions and attempted no further cuts.[155] Business leaders praised Hayes, but his own opinion was more equivocal; as he recorded in his diary: "The strikes have been put down by force; but now for the real remedy. Can't something [be] done by education of strikers, by judicious control of capitalists, by wise general policy to end or diminish the evil? The railroad strikers, as a rule, are good men, sober, intelligent, and industrious."[156] |
Hayes had been a firm supporter of
Republican
Reconstruction policies throughout his political career, but the
first major act of his presidency in 1878 was an end to
Reconstruction and the return of the South to home rule. |
| Wilson |
finally declared war after submarines sank seven U.S. merchant ships Wilson[19] |
Accepted History |
politics after the war solved few existing problems and created many new problems that resulted in WWII. |
Failed to convince American to give up isolationism and join the League of Nations. |
| Ike |
avoid war at any cost. He ended the Korean war and refused to send soldiers to Vietnam, Hungary and Suez." |
The |
Peace |
Helped overthrow the
democratically elected government of Iran by agreed with Churchill that
control of Iranian oil was important to national security. |
| Truman |
instituted the Truman Doctrine formalized a policy of Soviet containment and the Marshall Plan designed to help rebuild postwar Europe.[84][85] |
Accepted History |
Koran War A 1945 American decision had divided Korea along the 38th parallel. War resulted after the 1951 Soviet control north invaded the south attacking US lead UN. |
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| Kennedy |
didn't bomb Cuba and instead used a naval embargo to force removal of the missiles |
Accepted History | The 1990's release of Kremlin documents indicated Khrushchev planned a nuclear retaliation had Kenny followed V. P. Johnson and Republican Hawks who wanted to bomb the poop out of them! |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.[2] ...voter registration, r...acial segregation in schools, workplace and facilities that served the general public... from Wiki |
| Johnson |
expand the Vietnam War because of the Domino Theory. |
Accepted History |
Johnson invested 50,000 lives, big bucks, national unrest, and the start of inflation to stop the spread of communism. Twenty-five years later the wall came down, some say, because of the Reagan expanded the military buildup of President Carter. WNK |
Used congress as well as anyone in history to get Civil Rights Legislation submitted by JFK through a divided congress. |
| Bush II |
declared a War on Terror, 9/20/01, and sets up a extensive federal apparatus to wage war on many fronts. |
Accepted History |
invaded Afghanistan after the Taliban
refuses to disband, |
Cuts taxes, expands Medicare with a drug program without increasing payroll taxes |
| Obama |
withdrew military troops located in Iraq by 12/31/11 as agreed to by Bush II and in Afghanistan, expands troops deployments and later begins a planned withdrawing of combat troops continues from Afghanistan |
Accepted History |
To Be Determined but |
Obamacare and his expansion of
Medicaid. |