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The 26th President of the United States (1901-1909).
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Theodore Roosevelt
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His most disastrous political miscalculation was to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when 11 out of 36 states were unrepresented in the Congress, and that it discriminated in favor of African Americans and against whites. (Congress overrode his veto.)
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Andrew Johnson
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Aspired to remain neutral as World War I broke out (1914-1917), but ultimately asked Congress to declare war against Germany after Germany engaged in a series of attacks against U.S. shipping and tried to convince Mexico to join them in a war against the U.S.
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Woodrow Wilson
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During his presidency, the U.S. military massacred over 250 Lakota at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota (1890).
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Benjamin Harrison
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In 1888, signed the Scott Act, which barred Chinese immigrants who left the U.S. from returning.
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Grover Cleveland
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In 1900, he and other western powers sent 5,000 troops to Peking (now Beijing) to protect Americans and other westerners in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
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William McKinley
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Worked with Congress to establish the Federal Reserve System.
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Woodrow Wilson
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The 29th President of the United States (1921-1923).
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Warren G. Harding
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Signed into law the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which prohibited anticompetitive agreements and unilateral conduct that monopolized or attempted to monopolize a market.
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Benjamin Harrison
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His veto of the Volstead Act, designed to enforce Amendment XVIII (prohibition), was overridden by Congress.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Sent troops to occupy Nicaragua in 1912, when continued instability threatened U.S. interests. The occupation lasted until 1933.
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William Howard Taft
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Signed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, banning nearly all immigration from China for ten years.
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Chester A. Arthur
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The 25th President of the United States (1897-1901).
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William McKinley
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In 1924, he signed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. He also advocated to make lynching a federal crime, but failed to get Congress to act on it.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Because Congress would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended WWI hostilities, it was necessary for him to sign individual treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary in 1921 … without the U.S. joining the League of Nations.
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Warren G. Harding
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Utah (1896) was admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Grover Cleveland
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The 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).
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Woodrow Wilson
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Sent troops to occupy Haiti (1915) and the Dominican Republic (1916), and authorized interventions in Cuba, Panama and Honduras, despite having criticized his predecessors’ foreign policies as being too imperialistic.
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Woodrow Wilson
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The 16th President of the United States (1861-1865).
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Abraham Lincoln
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The 22nd President of the United States (1885-1889).
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Grover Cleveland
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