https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij The United States of America en-us 2019-05-09 07:02:04 UTC 2025-10-09 21:05:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f5dd.png 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358350387  He was a commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797. The son of a prosperous planter, Washington was raised in colonial Virginia.]]> 2019-05-09 07:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358350387 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358356615 Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. Under his command, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending the war.]]> 2019-05-09 07:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358356615 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358357163 During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. His administration provided major aid to help the French fight off Vietnamese Communists in the First Indochina War.]]> 2019-05-09 07:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358357163 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358358044  A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.]]> 2019-05-09 07:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358358044 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358358583 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer. Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. Returning a war hero, he was elected Governor of New York in 1898.]]> 2019-05-09 07:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358358583 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358359195 Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. he enacted measures to abolish slavery. Lincoln was correct in supporting the Union, which opposed slavery. He was an American statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865]]> 2019-05-09 07:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358359195 341444 https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358359789 The Constitution explicitly assigns the president the power to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces, ask for the written opinion of their Cabinet, convene or adjourn Congress, grant reprieves and pardons, and receive ambassadors.]]> 2019-05-09 07:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/341444/l3k1sy8r03ij/wish/358359789