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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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The 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).
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Woodrow Wilson
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Was impeached by the House of Representatives beginning on 24 February 1868 for knowingly violating the Tenure of Office Act and for questioning the legitimacy of Congress. The Senate declined to convict him.
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Andrew Johnson
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Worked with Congress to establish the Federal Reserve System.
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Woodrow Wilson
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The 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893).
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Benjamin Harrison
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Presided over most of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ended Reconstruction and returned the South to “home rule” (1877).
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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His attempt to annex Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) as a U.S. territory was foiled by Congress in 1869.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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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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An ardent conservationist, he placed about 230 million acres of land under public protection by establishing the United States Forest Service, creating five National Parks, proclaiming 18 new National Monuments, establishing the first 51 bird reserves, four game preserves and 150 National Forests.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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His administration ended the Spanish-American War in 1899 with the Treaty of Paris, by which Spain relinquished its claims on Cuba and the U.S. paid $20 million to annex Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
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William McKinley
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The 29th President of the United States (1921-1923).
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Warren G. Harding
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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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Assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln
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North Dakota (1889), South Dakota (1889), Montana (1889), Washington (1889), Idaho (1890) and Wyoming (1890) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Benjamin Harrison
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During his presidency, Congress voted to declare war against Spain (1898) after the U.S.S. Maine was blown up by an underwater mine in Havana Harbor, where it had been sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence.
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William McKinley
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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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His term was a period of rapid economic growth often called the “Roaring Twenties.”
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Calvin Coolidge
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West Virginia (1863) and Nevada (1864) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Attempted to reform the civil service to a merit-based system, but was foiled by a Congress whose members preferred to retain the spoils system that supported cronyism and nepotism.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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