The outstanding American Presidents Выполнила:ученица 9а класса ГОУ СОШ №340Яшина МарияРуководители: Иванова Е.В. Иванова Ю.В.
American Presidents George WashingtonJohn AdamsThomas JeffersonJames MadisonJames MonroeJohn Quincy AdamsAndrew JacksonMartin Van BurenWilliam H. HarrisonJohn TylerJames K. PolkZachary TaylorMillard FillmoreFranklin PierceJames BuchananAbraham LincolnAndrew JohnsonUlysses S. GrantRutherford B. HayesJames A. GarfieldChester A. Arthur To get more information about some of them click here Benjamin HarrisonGrover ClevelandWilliam McKinleyTheodore RooseveltWilliam H. TaftWoodrow WilsonWarren G. HardingCalvin CoolidgeHerbert C. HooverFranklin D. RooseveltHarry S. TrumanDwight D. EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyLyndon B. JohnsonRichard M. NixonGerald R. FordJimmy CarterRonald W. ReaganGeorge H. W. BushBill ClintonGeorge W. BushBarack Obama
George Washington (1789 - 1797) The first presidentG.W.:“As the first of everything, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent” George Washington set a pattern for all other Presidents to follow
Born in 1732Into a Virginia planter family He pursed 2 interests: - military arts- Western expressions
From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787.
Thomas Jefferson (1801 – 1809) The third president During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Thomas Jefferson: “I have sworn upon the altar of God form of tyranny over the mind of man”
Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865) The 16th president "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Abraham Lincoln hated war but accepted it as the onlyMeans to save the nation
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 - 1945) The 32d president Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. Roosevelt brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961 - 1963) The 35th president He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights Kennedy: the youngest manElected President, the youngest to die in office”
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas.
William Jefferson Clinton (1993 - 2001 ) The 42d president He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. During the administration of William J. Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history
he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus.
In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
George Washington Bush (2001 - 2009) George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States
President Bush declared war against terror and has made victory in the war on terrorism and the advance of human freedom the priorities of his Administration.
President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian, and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. The Bush family also includes their two dogs, Spot and Barney, and a cat, India.
Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States.
He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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