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Decade↕ | President (start)↕ | Defining Event↕ | Cultural Icon↕ | Economy↕ | Legacy↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1860s | Abraham Lincoln | Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln | Wartime industrialization | Union preserved, slavery abolished |
1870s | Ulysses S. Grant | Reconstruction and its end | Mark Twain | Panic of 1873 | Reconstruction collapsed, Jim Crow began |
1890s | Benjamin Harrison | Spanish-American War | Theodore Roosevelt | Gilded Age industrial boom | US became overseas empire |
1910s | William Howard Taft | World War I | Woodrow Wilson | War industry growth | US emerged as world power |
1920s | Woodrow Wilson | Prohibition and Jazz Age | Louis Armstrong | Roaring Twenties boom | Consumer culture and stock bubble |
1930s | Herbert Hoover | Great Depression and New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Mass unemployment, recovery | Modern welfare state founded |
1940s | Franklin D. Roosevelt | World War II | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Wartime production boom | US became superpower, atomic age |
1950s | Harry S. Truman | Cold War and suburbanization | Elvis Presley | Postwar prosperity | Middle-class expansion, interstate highways |
1960s | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Civil Rights and Vietnam | Martin Luther King Jr. | Great Society spending | Civil rights, counterculture, moon landing |
1970s | Richard Nixon | Watergate and stagflation | Jimmy Carter | Oil shocks and stagflation | Trust in government collapsed |
1980s | Jimmy Carter | Reagan Revolution | Ronald Reagan | Deregulation and boom | End of Cold War, conservative shift |
1990s | George H. W. Bush | Internet boom | Bill Clinton | Dot-com expansion | Globalization and digital revolution |
2000s | Bill Clinton | 9/11 and War on Terror | Barack Obama | Housing bubble and crash | Iraq, Afghanistan, Great Recession |
2010s | Barack Obama | Social media and political polarization | Barack Obama | Slow recovery then growth | Smartphone era, culture wars |
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