1. George Washington
set precedents for Presidents
-selection of a Cabinet to advise him
-Whiskey Rebellion
-Hamilton’s economic policies
-bank and money system
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2. John Adams
-Jay’s Treaty
-XYZ Affair
-Alien and Sedition Acts
-Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
3. Thomas Jefferson
-Marbury v Madison -judicial review
-agriculture should be basis of the economy
-wanted to take out Hamilton’s economic plans
-Louisiana Purchase
-Lewis and Clark expedition
-strict interpretation of the Constitution
4. James Madison
- “Father of the Constitution”
-War of 1812- British impressment
of Amer. Sailors
-Battle of New Orleans
-Dolley Madison
5. James Monroe
- “Era of Good Feeling”
-Missouri Compromise-1820
-Monroe Doctrine
6. John Quincy Adams
-defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824
in a nasty campaign
-Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida
from Spain
7. Andrew Jackson
-Democrat- “common man”
-Spoils system
-Kitchen Cabinet
-Indian Removal Act-1830-Trail of Tears
-Federal vs state power
-more people voting
-Jacksonian democracy
8. Martin Van Buren
1837-1841
- Trail of Tears
9. William Henry Harrison
-was president for 30 days
10. John Tyler
1841-1845
11. James K. Polk
-Mexican War- 1846-1848
-settles Oregon border with Britain
-California Gold Rush 1848
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
1850-1853
-The Compromise of 1850
-Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
14. Franklin Pierce
-Gadsden Purchase
-Bleeding Kansas
15. James Buchanan
1857-1861
-December 1860- southern states begin
seceding from the Union- he took no
action
-John Brown’s Raid
16. Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865
-Civil War
-13th amendment passed
-1862- Homestead Act
-1862- Morrill Act
17. Andrew Johnson
-became Pres. with the assassination
of Lincoln
-impeached by the Radical
Republicans but not removed from
office
-presided over Reconstruction of the
South
18. Ulysses S. Grant
-1869- Transcontinental Railroad
-telephone
-considered one of the worst
Presidents
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
- Given the election in the
Compromise of 1877- in return he
promised to end Reconstruction
20. James A. Garfield
-assassinated in 1881
21. Chester A. Arthur
-1882- Chinese Exclusion Act
-Standard Oil trust created
22. Grover Cleveland
-Samuel Gompers and the Amer.
Federation of Labor formed
23. Benjamin Harrison
-1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-Populism
-Hull House- community org. to help
immigrants- “settlement houses”
24. Grover Cleveland
-Plessy v. Ferguson- “separate but
equal”
-Pullman strike
-Tammany Hall-political machineBoss Tweed
25. William McKinley
-1898 Spanish-American War
-Open Door Policy (China)
-assassinated in 1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909
-Progressivism
-National Park System
-”Square Deal”- domestic policy
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”- foreign
policy
-Panama Canal
Wright Brothers air flight- 1903
27. William Howard Taft
1909-1913
-first auto kept at the White House
-16th amendment- 1913- income taxes
-”Dollar Diplomacy”
28. Woodrow Wilson
1913-1921
-U.S. joins World War I- 1918
-Treaty of Versailles- 14 Points
-Women get right to vote- 1920
-Prohibition begins -1921
-”moral diplomacy”
29. Warren G. Harding
1921-1923
- “Return to Normalcy”
-Teapot Dome Scandal
-dies in office
30. Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929
-Jazz Age – “Roaring 20s”
-Harlem Renaissance
-1924- Native Americans get right to vote
31. Herbert Hoover
Pres. when the stock market crashes in 1929
-The Great Depression
-Dust Bowl
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32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The New Deal
-World War II
-Holocaust
-Japanese Internment
33. Harry S Truman
-drops atomic bombs to end WWII
-Marshall Plan
-Cold War
-Korean War 1950-1953
-United Nations created
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
-hero of WW II
-McCarthyism
-Brown v. Board of Education- 1954
-interstate highway system
35. John F. Kennedy
-elected in 1960- assassinated in 1963
-“New Frontier”
- Berlin Wall built- 1961
- Castro
-Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- NASA- the space race
- Peace Corp
- March on Washington
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
-Pres. after Kennedy is assassinated
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-escalates the war in Vietnam
-the “Great Society”
-“War on Poverty”
-Civil Rights Act-1964
-Voting Rights Act
37. Richard M. Nixon
-1968-re-elected in 1972
-visits China
-détente with the Soviet Union
-Vietnamization of the War
-Vietnam war ends in 1973
38. Gerald R. Ford
-Pardons Nixon
39. James E. Carter
-elected in 1976
-energy crisis
-hostages in Iran
-Camp David Accords
40. Ronald Reagan
-1980-1988
-Conservatism
“trickle down” theory of economics- Reganomics
-supply side economics
-Arms reduction talks with Soviets
41. George H.W. Bush
-1988-1992
-Gulf War- Operation Desert Stormagainst Iraq
-fall of Berlin Wall and USSR
42. William Jefferson Clinton (Bill)
-1992-2000
-NAFTA
-impeached
-Balanced budget
-good economy
43. George W. Bush
-controversial election of 2000
- Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
-War on Terror
-Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
-PATRIOT Act
-stimulus package and bank bail- out
44. Barack Obama
-elected in 2008
-second stimulus package
-lack of confidence, political arguments continue to slow
economy
-conserv. –liberals unable to find compromise