The greatest President of the USA?

Question

why?

Answer 1

Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln was probably the best president. He was in office during the most difficult time in the nation's history, the war between the states. In order to preserve the Union the North sent troops into battle withfamily fighting family . The war had to be fought and the result was a unification of the country with great suffering on both sides. Some are still fighting that war today. Us Northerners are still known as "damn Yankees".

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson:

Became the head of the Democratic-Republican Party, advocating states' rights over an overbearingly powerful central government.

When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third.

He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean.

Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803.

Answer 4

Washington. He led the nation to victory over the mightiest militayr in the world at the time. He didn't want to be president - the young nation needed him and he knew it so he took it. He didn't want to be reelected to a 2nd term - but he saw the nation still needed his guidance. He told Congress to refer to him as Mr. President (not your Highness, Majesty, etc.). He is the only former president to his slaves freed upon his death.

He was a great man. None of the current candidates are worht a spit.

Answer 5

Washington - he was the first so he fashioned the position for all future presidents to follow

he had a good understanding of what a republic should be.

Lincoln's greatness really came after death - he wanted to send the slaves back to Africa. he considered them inferior.

Jefferson's morals are still talked about today.

FDR was the Savior after we had hit rock bottom (the great depression) no where to go but up
so i gotta say Washington

Answer 6

President Lincoln's achievements assured his continuing legacy. He saved the Union and freed the slaves. In his Gettysburg Address, he defined the Civil War as a rededication to the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Many Southern states made it clear that if Lincoln was elected, they would secede (leave the Union). The South was against Lincoln because he opposed slavery. South Carolina was the first to secede in December 1860. Six other Southern states followed: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After Lincoln's inauguration, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also left the Union. These states became known as the Confederacy. The secession of the Southern states led to the first shots of the Civil War when the Confederates seized Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861.

Lincoln faced the greatest national crisis of any U.S. President. He hated war and the death and destruction it would bring. However, he accepted war as the only means of saving the Union. He warned the South in his Inaugural Address:

"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 Web Site)

As the nation neared the third year of the bloody Civil War, President Lincoln issued the historic Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

This proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in the Border States of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states that had seceded did not act on Lincoln's orders. But the proclamation showed Americans — and the world — that the war was being fought to end slavery.

Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it changed the way black men were accepted during the war. Black men could join the Union Army and Navy. The liberated could become the liberators. By the end of the war, nearly 200,000 black soldiers and sailors fought for the Union and freedom.

On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech dedicated the battlefield to the soldiers who had died there. The battle site became a military cemetery. Lincoln stated in his moving speech: "...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (The National Archives.)


The spirit that guided Lincoln was evident in his second Inaugural Address. This speech is inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. "...With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..."

Answer 7

In actuality, when the historians look back, I think Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush will go done as great American Presidents. REagan had reasoned that pushing Star Wars would literally bankrupt the old Soviet Union--and his stragegy was found to be correct. Even though he recieves adverser reviews in current history--I think historians will come to believe that the stand he and his administration took on global terrorism and islamofascism was not only the correct thing to do, was a necessary thing to do.

Answer 8

Teddy Roosevelt
He Preserved National Lands ,Forests etc
We owe the best recreation and wildlife to him because of his Policys
Cool Calm and Wise
Famous Quote...
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick!

Answer 9

How about FDR...elected 4 times, pulled us out of the Great Depression and got us through most of WWII. BTW check your history Andrew Jackson was a Col. during the War of 1812, Madison was the president.

Answer 10

Andrew Jackson - payed off the debt, defended US sovereignty in the war of 1812, and abolished the Central Bank