Obama
• Tax cuts as part of stimulus bill
• Many small, good stimulus bill items
Bush
• Outsourcing government functions to private companies
• Forced Senate majority leader Lott to step down
Clinton
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty • Violated the War Powers Act
Bush
• Invade Panama • Phase out of Ozone depleting chemicals
Reagan
• Iran Contra Scandal • Simplified the Tax Code
Carter
• Allowed the continued slaughter in east timor
• Made Human rights an issue
Ford
• Increased the budget deficit
• Safe drinking water act
Nixon
• Possible CIA involvement in overthrow of prince sihanouk
• Arms control
Johnson
• Gulf of tonkin • Civil Rights
Kennedy
• Bay of Pigs • Nasa
Eisenhower
• Use of the Smith Act • Stopped the Governor of Arkansas from thwarting a local plan to desegregate a Little Rock high school
Truman
• Atomic Bombs • FCC Fairness Doctrine
Roosevelt
• Firebombing of Tokyo • United Nation
Hoover
• Great Depression • Invented the sport Hooverball
Coolidge
• Appointed hoover as head of fbi
• Civil Rights
Harding
• Teapot dome scandal • Budget and accounting act of 1921
Wilson
• Invasion of haiti • Child labor laws
Taft
• Couldn’t fit in bathtub • Civil Rights
Roosevelt
• Splitting panama from columbia
• Expanded national forests
McKinley
• Annexation of Hawaii • MT. Mckinley
Cleveland
• Berlin Conference • Use of the Veto power
Harrison
• Did nothing about the lynnchings
• Sherman anti-trust act
Arthur
• Chinese exclusion act • Reform of civil service system
Garfield
• Died months into his adminstration
• Civil reform
Hayes
• Railroad strike • Civil service reform
Grant
• Credit Mobilize Scandal • Civil Rights crusade
Johnson
• Fought with congress • Reconstruction
Lincoln
• Succeeding of the union • Emancipation Proclamation
Buchanan
• War on Utah territory • Only good thing is that the left ofice
Peirce
• Kansas Nebraska Act • Purchased land from mexico
Fillmore
• Compromise of 1850 • Commissioned Cmdr. Perry to open the nation of japan
Taylor
• Died during the Slavery Debate of 1850
• Improved relations with the british
Polk
• Started the US-Mexican War
• Acquired land from Mexico
Tyler
• Fought with Whig party members
• Created his own agenda separate from his party’s
Harrison
• Was only president for 30 days
• Nothing of significance
Van Buren
• Did nothing to fix the problems happening in Missouri
• Abolished slavery in DC
Jackson
• Trail of tears • Created the force bill
Adams
• Tariff of Abominations • Helped institute the American system
Monroe
• Missouri Compromise led to the civil war
• Era of good feelings
Madison
• War of 1812 • Wrote the constution
Jefferson
• Embargo act of 1807 • Louisiana Purchase
Adams
• Alien and Sedation Acts • Appointed John Marshall to the supreme court
Washington
• Whiskey Rebellion • Set the rules and customs for all future pesidents