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Presidents of the US

Terms in this set (44)

George Washington (1789-1797)
Bill of Rights; Whiskey Rebellion; cotton gin invented
John Adams (1797-1801)
XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
Marbury vs. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo Act
James Madison (1809-1817)
War of 1812; American System
James Monroe (1817-1825)
industrialization; Missouri Compromise; Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Erie Canal; Tariff of Abominations
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
Nullification and Bank War; Jacksonian Democracy; Indian Removal Act
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
Trail of Tears; Panic of 1837
William H. Harrison (1841)
First to die in office
John Tyler (1841-1845)
Irish and German Immigrants; Oregon Trail
James K. Polk (1845-1849)
Texas annexation and Mexican War; Gold Rush; Seneca Falls Convention (women's suffrage)
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
Fugitive Slave Act
Millard Filmore (1850-1853)
Compromise of 1850; Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
Bleeding Kansas; Gadsden Purchase
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
Dred Scott; Harpers Ferry raid (John Brown)
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation; First assassinated
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
13th and 14th Amendments; Radical Reconstruction; impeachment trial; sharecropping in the south
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
15th Amendment; transcontinental railroad; Panic of 1873; Battle of Little Big Horn
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes
James A. Garfield (1881)
assassinated (Charles Guiteau)
Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
Standard Oil trust created; Edison lights up New York City
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
Dawes Act; Samuel Gompers and AFL
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
Wounded Knee Massacre; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Populism and Hull house founded
Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
Plessy v. Ferguson; Pullman Strike; Tammany Hall
William McKinley (1897-1901)
new immigration; Spanish-American War; Open Door Policy
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
Progressivism; Square Deal and Big Stick Policy
William H. Taft (1909-1913)
Dollar Diplomacy; NAACP founded
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
WWI and League of Nations; 18th and 19th Amendments
Warren Harding (1921-1923)
Tea Pot Dome Scandal; cars and planes alter America
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
Jazz Age; Harlem Renaissance
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
Stock Market Crash; Depression and Dust Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
1st and 2nd New Deal; WWII and Holocaust; Japanese Interment;
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
A-bomb and Marshall Plan; Cold War begins and Korean War; UN created
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
McCarthyism; Brown v. Board of Education; Highway Act and Suburbs; rock'n'roll and youth culture
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
Camelot & March on Washington; Cuban Missile Crisis; assassination (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
Civil and Voting Rights acts; M.L. King assassinated; escalation in Vietnam; anti-war and counter culture; Great Society
Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
feminism; environmentalism; U.S. pulls out of Vietnam; China visit; Watergate; resigns
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
pardons Nixon; WIN (Whip Inflation Now);
James Carter (1977-1981)
stagflation/energy crisis; hostages in Iran
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
rise of conservatism; Cold War ends
George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)
Persian Gulf War
William Clinton (1993-2001)
NAFTA; impeachment
George W. Bush (2001-2009)
war on terrorism; Patriot Act; invasion of Iraq invasion of Afganistan
Barack Obama (2009-present)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; Auto Bailouts; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; BP Oil Spill; Osama Bin Ladin; Gun Control;
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