Unit 4 · 1901–1945

A New Century

Cars, radios, and huge parks arrived. So did two world wars and a time when many families had no jobs. Presidents had to think bigger.

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  No. 26Theodore Roosevelt1901–1909 · RepublicanA human whirlwind who protected parks, busted trusts, and built a canal.
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  No. 27William Howard Taft1909–1913 · RepublicanThe only person to be president and later chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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  No. 28Woodrow Wilson1913–1921 · DemocraticHe led America in World War I and dreamed of a League of Nations — then collapsed trying to sell it.
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  No. 29Warren G. Harding1921–1923 · RepublicanHe promised a “return to normalcy” — then his friends ran a famous oil scandal.
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  No. 30Calvin Coolidge1923–1929 · RepublicanA famously quiet president who let the Roaring Twenties roar.
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  No. 31Herbert Hoover1929–1933 · RepublicanA brilliant engineer and humanitarian who became the face of the Great Depression.
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  No. 32Franklin D. Roosevelt1933–1945 · DemocraticHe led through the Depression and World War II — the only president elected four times.