As America prepares to elect its 45th president, Epic History TV presents here the first 44 presidents George Washington holds the Revolutionary War and first president of America twice unanimously elected by the Electoral College, he leads America on a course of neutrality and resigned after 2 terms.
John Adams, lawyer, diplomat and intellectual. He was one of the leading voices in calling for American independence. He prevented an open war with France, was the first president to live in the White House and the first to lose an election. Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
He was a passionate defender of individual freedom, although like several early presidents, he owned slaves himself. He rejected federalism and a strong central government, but doubled America's area by buying 800,000 square miles of territory from France.
James Madison was America's smallest president at 54, but an outstanding figure in the fight to pass the US Constitution and the Bill of Lights. As president, he was forced to wage another war against Britain in order to preserve America's rights at sea. James Monroe, the last president who was also a founding father, he warned Europe not to interfere in American affairs and.
And at the same time promised that the US would not interfere in Europe's affairs. He passed laws to limit slavery to existing slave states and new areas south of the Missouri compromise line, and he also supported the colonization of Liberia by free African Americans, which is why the capital Monrovia is named after him.
John Twincy Adams, son of John Adams, America's second president, was a brilliant diplomat who prioritized economic development while paying off most of America's national debt. Andrew Jackson, an intrepid soldier, hero of the War of 1812 and founder of the Democratic Party he.
After being wounded in a duel, his authoritarian style led to his opponents, the Vicks, branding him a dictator. He began a policy of forcibly relocating Indian tribes west of the Mississippi Martin van Beuren, the first president born in the Independent United States, he was the son of an innkeeper and spoke Dutch at home, he.
His presidency was marked by America's first major financial crash. He served one term and then lost 3 more attempts at re-election. William Henry Harrison, A soldier who spent most of his career fighting against Native Americans. He gave the longest inaugural speech in history, but was the shortest in office: 30 days after his speech, he died of pneumonia.
The first president to die while in office, John Tyler, the first vice president to become president after the death of his predecessor, was expelled from his own party, the VIX, for vetoing its bills, which he believed violated state rights. James K. Hulk, a staunch advocate of westward expansion.
He signed the law admitting Texas into the Union and provoked a war with Mexico, which led to the takeover of half a 1000,000 square miles of North America, including California, Nevada and Utah. He also negotiated with the British about the partition of Oregon, Zachari Taylor, a professional soldier and hero of the Mexican-American War, had never voted before and had no firm political convictions.
In view of the increasing tensions between slaveholders and free states, he threatened to hang the secessionists of the South, but died suddenly of a stomach disease. Billiards Fini Mord, born in a log cabin, the last president with a wig, he advocated a difficult compromise between free and slave states, which was to prove short-lived. Franklin Pierce took office shortly after.
After he and his wife witnessed the violent death of their eleven-year-old son, a trauma that probably both suffered from depression. He accelerated the slide into civil war by allowing brutal violence to erupt in Kansas, where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought for control of the area.
James B. Canon's attempts to mediate between the free states in the North and the slave states in the South failed miserably, leading to the split in the Democratic Party and the withdrawal of the Southern states from the Union. Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president, he led the North to victory in the Civil War and freed all slaves in the South by decree.
There was the first president to be assassinated, John Wills shot Booth in the Fords Theater in Washington DC. Andrew Johnson, a Southerner born into poverty, during the Civil War he sided with the Union, but after the war he blocked Congressional attempts to impose reforms on the South, this led to his impeachment, although he was cleared in the Senate by one vote.
Ulisse's trend keeps the Union in the civil war. He used the military to enforce the reconstruction of former slave states and to protect the victims of white supremacist violence in the South. During his presidency, there were also wars against the Native Americans in the Great Plains Brotherford B.
Pays won the most controversial, corrupt and violent presidential election in US history. He tried to heal the wounds inflicted by the Civil War and Reconstruction, but the withdrawal of federal troops from the South allowed the white supremacists to return to power.
James R. Garfield took action against corruption in the Senate and the civil service with some success, but was shot by an embittered lawyer only 4 months after the start of his first term and succumbed to his injuries. Chester Arthur, son of an Irish Baptist preacher, unexpectedly proved to be above any political faction and continued Garfield's work to reform the government bureaucracy.
Grover Kniefend, the first Democratic president since the Civil War and the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms. He used the presidential veto with enthusiasm, blocking measures that he felt went beyond the federal government's purview, even pensions for Civil War veterans and subsidies for destitute farmers. Pay attention to Part 2 of the US Presidents of the.
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