1. Economic Progress

2. Good Leadership (polls, reelection data)

3. Fought wars successfully or stayed out

4. Left things in better shape

Bad for Indians!

Fought Biddle’s Bank! Fought nullifiers, lower tariff, spoils sys.1,2,4

Promised (and delivered) we’d get the SW and Oregon Territory---as big as La. Purchase!

Avoided WW 3 (Dulles & Brinksmanship) Interstate Hwys, Little Rock, good economy..1-4.

La.Purchase, Sep church/state sep, Embargo? …1-4.

1,3, 4

Survived Cold War, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, Korea, Truman Doc. start for Civil Rts.

Made us popular worldwide! Peace Corps, NASA.

Missile Crisis

Civil Rts, Alliance for Progress. 1-4

1st Prez to be neutral in labor conflicts, kept us out of wars! Panama Canal, Enviro., Pure Food/Drugs, Nobel, Income tax amd, 8 hr day. TRUST busting. 1-4

The ONLY guy who could have held it all together? :Whiskey Tax, Neutrality, Hamilton’s Eco Program.

Saved country when nobody else would/could?

Homestead Act, Trans RR,

End to slavery!

Whoops---never mind

Kind to animals, quick on his feet……

Beat 2 major disasters! New Deal endures!

LBJ—Civil Rts Act ’64, Voting Rts ’65, Immg. Act ‘65! (VNam a downer).Woodrow Wilson---Progressive reforms, Red Scare terrible.

---Abandoned blacks---let KKK run wild---allowed South to slide back into its old ways

Andrew Johnson

Attacked “wrong country,” de-reg policies=Great Depression of 2008-?, Katrina.