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APUSH Presidents

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George Washington
1789-1797
Federalist
Judiciary Act
The Cabinet
Bank of US (BUS)
Tariff of 1789
Whiskey Tax and Rebellion
Neutrality Proclamation
Jay and Pinckney Treaty
Farewell Address
Growth of Democratic Republican Party
Treaty of Greenville
John Adams
1797-1801
Federalist
Partisan politics
undeclared war with France
XYZ affair
Convention of 1800
Alien, Sedition and Naturalization Acts
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Revolution of 1800
Judiciary Act of 1801
"Midnight Judges"
Appointment of John Marshall, Chief Justice
Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809
Democratic Republican
Marbury v Madison (1803)
Barbary Pirates
Louisiana Purchase
Essex Junto
Burr conspiracy
Embargo Act, 1807
Lewis and Clark
Impressment of American Sailors
Chesapeake incident
James Madison
1809-1817
Democratic Republican
War Hawks
War of 1812 and Treaty of Ghent
Battle of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
BUS rechartered in 1816
Tariff of 1816 (first protective tariff)
James Monroe
1817-1825
Democratic Republican
Missouri Compromise, 1820
Era of Good Feelings
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
Rush Bagot, Oregon, and Adams-Onis Treaties
Oregon Treaty- joint occupation with England
Monroe Doctrine, 1923
John Q. Adams
1825-1829
National Republican
Partisan Election of 1824 (Clay, Jackson, Adams, and Crawford)
"the corrupt bargain"
nationalist objectives
partisan campaign of 1828
Tariff of Abominations
South Carolina Exposition
Erie Canal completed
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837
Democrat
Kitchen cabinet
Spoils system
Increases powers of the president
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia/Worchester v. Georgia
Trail of Tears
Webster Hayne debate
Maysville Road veto
Peggy Eaton affair
Calhoun's resignation
Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833
Jackson's War on the Bank
Third party in presidential election of 1832
Specie Circular
Alamo
Martin Van Buren
1837-1841
Democrat
Panic of 1837
Repeal Specie Circular, 1838
Independent Treasury System
The Amistad
William H. Harrison
1841
Whig
Oregon Fever
Only President for a month
John Tyler
1841-1845
"man without a party"
Repeal Independent Treasury System
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Joint Resolution of Texas
James K. Polk
1845-1849
Democrat
Mexican War/Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Oregon Treaty
Zachary Taylor
1849-1850
Whig
Gold Rush
Slavery question in California
Favors admission of California on basis of popular sovereignty
Millard FIllmore
1850-1857
Whg
Compromise of 1850
Young American Spirit
Clayton Bulwer Treaty
Matthew Perry establishes relations with Japan
Franklin Pierce
1853-1857
Democrat
Republican Party organized
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Bleeding Kansas
Gadsen Purchase, 1853
Ostend Manifesto, 1854
Trade treaty with Japan
William Walker in Nicaragua, 1855
James Buchanan
1857-1861
Democrat
Dred Scott Decision, 1857
Troubles in Kansas continue/LeCompton Constitution
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Crittenden Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865
Republican
Civil War
Homestead Act, 1862
Morrill Land Grant Acts
%10 Plan
National Banking Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Andrew Johnson
1865-1869
Republican
Seward's Folly, 1867/Purchase of Alaska
Amnesty Proclamation
13th and 14th Amendments adopted
1866 Civil Rights Act
Radical Reconstruction and Impeachment
Black Reconstruction in South
Ulysses Grant
1869-1877
Republican
Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869
15th Amendment adopted
Whisky Ring and Indian Ring
Battle of Little Big Horn
Hayes-Tilden election/End of Reconsstruction
Rutherford Hayes
1877-1881
Republican
Compromise of 1877
End of Reconstruction/Return of White Supremacy
Indian Wars on the Plains
Exploitation of mineral wealth and land
Cattle Kingdom and Open Range ranching
James A. Garfield
1881
Republican
Assassinated by a disappointed office seeker
Republican party splits (Stalwarts, Half-Breeds)
Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885
Republican
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Grover Cleveland
1885-1889
Democrat
Dawes Act (1887)
Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
Naval base at Pearl Harbor created
Benjamin Harrison
1889-1893
Republican
Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
McKinley Tariff
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Homestead Strike, 1892
Grover Cleveland
1893-1897
Democrat
Pullman Strike
E.C. Knight Case
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Cross of Gold Speech, 1896
Arbitrated border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana, 1895
Queen of Hawaii deposed of by residents, 1898
William McKinley
1897-1901
Republican
Height of business influence in government
Gold Standard Act of 1900
Dingley Tariff
Spanish American War. 1898
Teller Amendment, Platt Amendment
Acquisition of Hawaii
Open Door Policy (China)
Teddy Rossevelt
1901-1909
Republican
"the square deal"
"trust buster"
Coal Strike, 1902
Hepburn Act, 1906
National Reclamation Act
First Governor's Conference
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
Speak softy and carry a big stick
Panama acquired
Russo-Japanese War, 1905
Gentleman's Agreement, 1907
William H. Taft
1909-1913
Republican
Payne Aldrich Tariff
Mann Elkins Act
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Challenge of Joseph Cannon
"dollar diplomacy"
U.S involvement in nicaragua
16th and 17th amendements
Woodrow Wilson
WW1
Fourteen Points
Clayton Antitrust Act
"Moral Diplomacy"
Underwood tariff
Federal Trade Commission
Tries to improve relations with Mexico
Zimmerman Telegraph
Lusitania
Senate rejects League of Nations
Warren G. Harding
1921-1923
Republican
Normalcy
Harding Scandals - Teapot Dome
Fordney McCumber Tariff (1922)
Washington Armament Conference
Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929
Republican
Prosperity
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Scopes Trial
National Origins Act
Veto of McNary Haugen Bill
Kellogg-Griand Pact
Dawes Plan
Herbert Hoover
1929-1933
Republican
Stock market crash
Great Depression
Do-nothing president
Agricultural Marketing Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Bonus Army March on Washington D.C.
The Young Plan
Clark Memorandum
Japanese invade Manchuria
Stimson Doctrine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
WW2
New Deal
Welfare
Alphabet Soup
Social Security
Good Neighbor Policy
Triumph of Isolationism
Neutrality Acts
Lend Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
Yalta Conference
Harry S Truman
1945-1953
Democrat
Fair Deal
Wanted Civil Rights legislation, against lynching and poll taxes
Wanted federal funds for education
Fear of communism
McCarthy Era
Tafty Hartley Act
Postdam Conference
Atomic Bombs
United Nations founded
Cold War with USSR
Marshall Plan
Containment Policy
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Occupation of Germany and Japan
NATO formed
Point Four
Korean War
Support for Israel
Support for French in Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953-1961
Republican
McCarthy Era/Army-McCarthy Hearings
Brown v Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Civil Rights movement
Nation Guard sent to Little Rock
Continuation of containment
New Look
Eisenhower Doctrine in Middle East
Domino Theory
Suez Crisis
SEATO
Cuba becomes communist
Quemoy and Matsu
U2 Affair
End of Korean War
Support for South Vietnam
John F Kennedy
1961-1963
Democrat
Peace Corps
Civil Rights BIll/March on Washington
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Alliance for Progress
Test Ban Treaty
Advisers to Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1969
Democrat
Great Society
Civil Rights Act, 1964
War on Poverty
Economic Opportunities Act
Job Corps
Community Action Programs
Head Start
Medicare and Medicaid
Elementary and Secondary School Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Women's movement, Chicano, Red power
student protests - vietnam and civil rights
Black Power Movement
Death of MLK and Malcom X
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
Richard Nixon
1969-1974
Republican
Fights inflation
Watergate
SALT I Treaty
Detente with China and USSR
26th Amendment
Increased bombing on No. Vietnam
Extends war to Cambodia
Nixon Doctrine
Vietnamization
War Powers Resolution
Gerald R. Ford
1974-1977
Republican
Pardoned Nixon
Stagflation
Fall of Vietnam
Communist takeover of Cambodia
James Carter
1977-1981
Democrat
Inflation
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Panama Treaty
Pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers
Moves away from imperial presidency
OPEC
SALT II
Camp David Accords
Afghan Situation
Boycott of Olympics in Moscow
Lowest approval rating of all time
Ronald Reagan
1981-1989
Republican
New Right
lots of tax cuts and reduction of social programs
does nothing about aids
Iran Contra Affair
Hates Russia
Hostages returned
Reaganomics
Invasion of Grenada
Defense spending and increasing of national debt
George H.W. Bush
1989-1993
Republican
Military cutbacks
Prolonged recession
end of Cold War
Sent US forces to Panama to overthrow Nicaragua
Persian Gulf War
Bill Clinton
1993-2001
Democrat
Reduced federal deficit
Failed attempt for major healthy care reform
NAFTA
Welfare reform
Increased minimum wage
Sex Scandal (Monica Lewinsky)
Military buildup and war against Iraw
Prosperity/low employment
War in Kosovo
Contested Presidential Electi0on
George W. Bush
2001-2009
Republican
Tax Cut
9/11 Attack on World Trade Center
Pentagon War on Terrorism
Israel-Palestine Conflict
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