Presidents
George Washington: 1788
-Jefferson: Secretary of State
-Hamilton: Secretary of Treasury
-National Bank: Hamilton v. Jefferson (loose v. strict interpretation of Constitution)
-Hamilton's plan for handling National Debt
-Democratic-Republican Party formed (instigated by French Citizen Genet)
-Whiskey Rebellion
-Jay Treaty
John Adams: 1796
-Federalist
-XYZ Affair
-Alien and Sedition Acts
-Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
-issue: nullification
Thomas Jefferson: 1800
-Democratic-Republican
-Marbury v. Madison
-Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark
-British impressment & Embargo Act of 1807
James Madison: 1808
-Non-intercourse Act and Macon's Bill No. 2
-War of 1812
-Tecumseh & Prophet
-Federalists' Hartford Convention
-rechartering of National Bank
-Henry Clay's American System
James Monroe: 1816
-"Era of Good Feelings"
-Panic of 1819
-Adams-Onis Treaty & Monroe Doctrine
-Missouri Compromise
John Quincy Adams: 1824
-end of caucus system
-"corrupt bargain"
Andrew Jackson: 1828
-Democratic Party
-"spoils system"
-Jacksonian Democracy and universal manhood suffrage
-Indian Removal Act et al
-made 2nd National Bank fail
-Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
Martin Van Buren: 1836
-Panic of 1837
-rise of Whig party
William Harrison & John Tyler: 1840
-Whigs
-Tyler was for states' rights and made Whigs mad
James Polk: 1844
-British-American Convention and Oregon Treaty (boundary disputes)
-Mexican-American War - 1846
-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Zachary Taylor: 1848
-Whig; died in office
-Compromise of 1850 proposed
Millard Fillmore: 1850
-Douglas passes Compromise's parts
-Fugitive Slave Law causes strife
Franklin Pierce: 1852
-Democrat
-Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas
-Cuba & Ostend Manifesto (filibustering)
-rise of Free-soil, Know-Nothing, Republican parties
-fall of Know-Nothing and Whig parties
James Buchanan: 1856
-Dred Scott case
-Kansas' Lecompton v. Topeka constitutions
-Lincoln & Douglas debates for Senate
-John Brown's raid
Abraham Lincoln: 1860
-Republican
-Civil War
Andrew Johnson: 1864
-Republican
-Reconstruction: Presidential, Congressional, Constitutional
Reconstruction Act of 1867
-14, 15, 16th Amendments
-impeachment crisis - not to be used politically hereafter
Ulysses S. Grant: 1872
-Republican
-"Grantism" and corruption
-Boss Tweed et al; "Gilded Age"
-Panic of 1873
-Reconstruction abandoned; "redeeming" South w/black codes & sharecropping
1876 to 1896
-Dawes Sevralty Act
-industrialization
-Cleveland & Depression of 1893-97
-Silver Issue
William McKinley (R): 1896
-Silver coinage issue
-expansion: Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines, China