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As you're reading The Presidents, you'll come across many terms, names and events that you may want to learn a little more about. Since each chapter is a snapshot of the presidency, this page will help give you more detail about the times and what each president was facing.
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Definitions
Key words, events and legislation
- "Bull Moose Party"
- "Profiles in Courage"
- 13th Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 16th Amendment
- 1876 U.S. Presidential Election
- 2008 financial crisis
- Al-Qaeda
- Albany Regency
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Amistad
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of New Orleans
- Battle of San Juan Hill
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Black Hawk War
- Bloody Kansas
- Bonus Army
- Boxer Rebellion
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
- Bush v. Gore
- Camp David
- Camp David Accords
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Compromise of 1850
- Constitutional Convention
- Corrupt Bargain
- Democratic-Republican Party
- Direct election of senators
- Doughface
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Eaton Affair
- Electoral College
- Embargo Act of 1807
- Ethics in Government Act of 1978
- Federalist Party
- First Bank of the U.S.
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
- Free Soil Party
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Gag rule
- Gilded Age
- Gorget
- Great Depression
- Gulf War
- Habeas corpus
- Hail to the Chief
- Half-Breeds
- Hampton Roads Conference
- Hurricane Katrina
- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Indian Removal Act
- Iran-Contra affair
- Iraq War
- Jay Treaty
- Judiciary Act of 1925
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Know Nothing/Native American Party
- Korean War
- Korean War
- Liberty Party
- Lockheed U-2
- Lost Cause of the Confederacy
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lusitania
- Marbury v. Madison
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- McKinley Tariff
- Mexican-American War
- Mississippi Flood of 1927
- Missouri Compromise
- Monroe Doctrine (sometimes known as the Tyler Doctrine)
- New Deal
- New York Custom House
- Nixon pardon
- Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963)
- Nullification
- Oregon Territory
- Panic of 1893
- Pendergast Machine
- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Polio and FDR
- Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
- Prohibition
- Reconstruction era
- Second Bank of the U.S.
- September 11 attacks
- Shays' Rebellion
- Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
- Slater Fund
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
- Stalwarts
- Stamp Act 1765
- Standpatter Republican
- Star Spangled Banner
- TARP
- Tariff of 1842
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Teddy bear
- Tenure of Office Act
- Trail of Tears
- Treaty of Paris (1898)
- U.S. 20-dollar bill
- U.S. 50-dollar bill
- U.S. one-dollar bill
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Underground Railroad
- VE Day
- War of 1812
- War on Poverty
- Warm Springs/Little White House
- Watergate scandal
- Whig Party
- Willard InterContinental Washington
- Wilmot Proviso
- World War II
Lists
Comparative and informational lists
- Children of Presidents
- Education of Presidents
- History of Recessions and Panics in the United States
- Illnesses of Presidents
- Military Service of Presidents
- Popular Vote in U.S. Election
- Presidential Slave Owners
- Presidential Vetoes
- Presidents by Home State
- Presidents of the United States by Net Worth
- Supreme Court Nominations
- U.S. Congresses Party Divisions
- U.S. Demographics
- U.S. Duels
- U.S. Federal Legislation
- U.S. Presidential Elections Where Winner Lost Popular Vote
- U.S. Presidential Elections by Electoral College Margin
- U.S. Presidents by Age
- U.S. Presidents by Age at Death
- U.S. Public Debt
- U.S. Public Debt
- U.S. States by Date of Admission to the Union
- Unemployment Rates by President (Truman-Trump)
- Voter Turnout in the United States Presidential Elections
- Voting Rights in the United States
- WWI casualties
People
People mentioned throughout the book
- Alphonso Taft
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- Archie Butt
- Betsey Wright
- Bill Ayers
- Dick Morris
- Fawn Brodie
- Frank Marshall Davis
- James Callender
- Jefferson Davis
- Jeremiah Wright
- John Flammang Schrank
- John Hinkley Jr.
- John Wilkes Booth
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Leon Czolgosz
- Mimi Beardsley
- Peggy Eaton
- Roscoe Conkling
- Sally Hemings
- Seminole
- Spiro Agnew
- Tecumseh
- Washington's slaves and dower slaves
Verbatim
Speeches and documents in the presidents' own words
- "The Speech" (aka "A Time for Choosing")
- 1988 Willie Horton ad
- Article about Blair Education Bill
- Charles Guiteau's autobiography
- Declaration of Independence
- Dr. Cary T. Grayson notes/papers
- George Washington's Farewell Address
- John Adams diaries
- John Quincy Adams diaries
- Julia Sand letters
- Lincoln Douglas Debates
- Massachusetts Constitution by John Adams
- President Reagan Speech on Tower Commission Report
- President Reagan's Berlin Wall speech
- President Reagan's Iran-Contra testimony
- Republican Platform of 1856
- Thomas Jefferson 1774 pamphlet
- Thomas Jefferson's notes on Virginia
- U.S. President Inaugural Speeches
- Van Buren letter to Henry Hammett
- Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson love letters
To continue your educational journey about the presidents, here are some other good resources to study the presidency.
- Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University
- Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
- Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University
- Miller Center at the University of Virginia
- Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University
- Southern Methodist University Center for Presidential History
- The Garfield Center for Public Leadership at Hiram College
