Key Presidential Achievements

 

Progressive Age, 1900-1920

(26.) President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908

Republican
Vice President - Charles Fairbanks
Secretary of State - John Hay, Elihu Root

Panama Canal, 1903-1914
"Square Deal"
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
Portsmouth Treaty, 1905
Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, 1904
Hague Conferences, 1899 and 1907
Hepburn Act, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers", 1906
Political reforms of the Roosevelt Era
Trust-busting
Coal Strike
Conservation
Venezuelan Debt Controversy, 1902
Dominican Republic Crisis, 1902
Algerian Conference over Morocco, 1906

(27.) President William Howard Taft, 1909-1913

Republican
Vice President - James Sherman

Paine-Aldrich Tariff, 1909
Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909 (conservation v. reclamation)
"Dollar Diplomacy"

(28.) President Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921

Democrat
Vice President - Thomas Marshall

Underwood Tariff, 1913
16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
Federal Reserve System, 1913
Glassower Act, 1913
Federal trade Commission, 1914
Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico
The Lusitania, May 1915
"Fourteen Points," January 1917
Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920
"New Freedom"

Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929

(29.) President Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923

"Dark Horse" candidate
Republican
Vice President - Calvin Coolidge
Secretary of State - Charles Evans Hughes

Teapot Dome Scandal
Washington Conference, 1921-1922
Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922

(30.) President Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929

Republican
Vice President - Charles Dawes
Secretary of State - Frank Kellogg

Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928

(31.) President Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

Republican
Vice President - Charles Curtis
Secretary of State - Henry L. Stimson

National Origins Immigration Act, 1929
Panic and Depression
Stock market Crash, 1929
Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930

The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1920-1945

(32.) President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945

Democrat
Vice President - John Garner, George Wallace, Harry S. Truman

New Deal
"Alphabet soup" bureaucracies
World War II
Labor reforms