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APUSH - Presidents

Terms in this set (44)

George Washington
- 1789-1797
- Federalist
- Judiciary Act
- The Cabinet
- Hamilton's financial program (Bank of U.S.)
- Tariff of 1789
- Whiskey Tax and Rebellion
- Neutrality Proclamation (War France v. England)
- 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
- Alien, Sedition and Naturalization Acts
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
- Revolution of 1800
- Judiciary Act, 1801
- "midnight judges"
- Appointment of John Marshall, Chief Justice
Thomas Jefferson
- 1801-1809
- Democratic Republican
- pell mell (We are all Federalists...Republicans)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Repeal Judiciary Act and attack on the Judiciary
- 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
- Bank of the U.S. rechartered in 1816
- Tariff of 1816 (1st protective tariff)
James Monroe
- 1817-1825
- Democratic Republican
- Missouri Compromise, 1820
- The Era of Good Feelings
- McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
- Rush Bagot, Oregon, and Adams-Onis Treaties
- Oregon Treaty - joint occupation with England
- Monroe Doctrine, 1823
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 1828 (Abominations)
- South Carolina Exposition
- Erie Canal completed
Andrew Jackson
- 1829-1837
- Democrat
- Kitchen cabinet
- Spoils system
- Increases powers of the presidency (veto, disregard of John Marshall's decisions on U.S. Bank and Indians)
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia/Worcester v. Georgia
- Trail of Tears
- Webster Hayne debate
- Maysville Road veto
- Peggy Eaton affair
- Calhoun's resignation
- Nullification Crisis, 1832-3
- Force Act
- Clay's Compromise Tariff, 1833
- Jackson's War on the Bank
- Third party in presidential election of 1832-beginning of National Nominating Conventions and party platforms
- 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
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
- 1850-1853
- Whig
- 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
- Gadsden 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
- Homestead Act, 1862
- Morrill Land Grant Acts
- Tariff Acts raised duties on manufactured duties
- National Banking Act
- Civil War
- 10% Plan (loyalty oaths)
Andrew Johnson
- 1865-1869
- Republican
- Seward's Folly, 1867/Purchase of Alaska
- Amnesty Proclamation
- 13th and 14th Amendments adopted
- 1866 Civil Rights Act (adopted over veto)
- Radical Reconstruction and Impeachment
- Black Reconstruction in South
Ulysses Grant
- 1869-1877
- Republican
- Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869
- 15th Amendment adopted
- Whiskey Ring and Indian Ring
- Battle of the Little Big Horn
- Hayes-Tilden election/End of Reconstruction
Rutherford b Hayes
- 1877-1881
- Republican
- Compromise of 1877
- End of Reconstruction/Return 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
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Grover Cleveland
- 1885-1889
- Democrat
- Dawes Act (1887)
- Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
- U.S. gets right to naval base at Pearl Harbor
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 (2nd Inconsecutive Term)
- 1893-1897
- Democrat
- Pullman Strike
- E.C. Knight Case
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Cross of Gold Speech, 1896
- U.S. arbitrated border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana, 1895
- Queen Liliuokalani deposed by resident US in Hawaii, 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 Roosevelt
- 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 softly and carry a big stick"
- Panama acquired, 1903
- Russo-Japanese War, 1905
- Gentleman's Agreement, 1907
William 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 Amendments
Woodrow Wilson
- 1913-1921
- Democrat
- Underwood tariff
- Federal Reserve Act
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Federal Trade Commission
- 18th and 19th Amendments
- "Moral diplomacy"
- Attempts to improve relations with Mexico
- Zimmerman note
- Lusitania
- "make the world safe for democracy"
- World War I
- Versailles Conference
- Senate rejects the League of Nations
Warren Harding
- 1921-1923
- Republican
- Normalcy
- "" 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-Briand Pact
- Dawes Plan
Herbert Hoover
- 1929-1933
- Republican
- Stock market crash
- "prosperity is just around the corner"
- Agricultural Marketing Act
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Hawley Smoot Tariff
- Bonus Army March on Washington, D.C.
- The Young Plan
- Clark Memorandum
- Japanese invade Manchuria (1931)
- Stimson Doctrine
- Moratorium on all international obligations
Franklin D Roosevelt
- 1933-1945
- Democrat
- The New Deal/ Relief, Recovery, and Reform
- Relief: Welfare and the dole (FERA)
- Recovery: NIRA, TVA, AAA, RFC, FHA, CCC, PWA, WPA, Theater Project, Writers' Project, National Youth Administration, and Home Owner's Loan, devalued the dollar; ended gold standard
- Reform: FDIC, SEC, Social Security Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, and Wagner Act
- 1938 - Congress of Industrial Organization founded by John L. Lewis
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Triumph of Isolationism
- Nye Investigations
- U.S. abrogated the Platt Amendment
- Neutrality Acts
- Lend Lease Act
- Destroyers for bases deal with Great Britain
- Pearl Harbor and World War II
- Yalta Conference (1945)
Harry S Truman
- 1945-1953
- Democrat
- Fair Deal
- Conservative "Do Nothing Congress"
- Wanted Civil Rights legislation, against lynching and poll taxes
- Wanted federal funds for public education
- Fear of communism - Alger Hiss/Rosenbergs
- McCarthy Era
- Taft Hartley Act
- Potsdam Conference
- Atomic Bombs
- United Nations founded
- Cold War with Soviet Union
- Marshall Plan
- U.S. policy of containment
- Truman Doctrine
- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- Occupation of Germany and Japan
- Formation of NATO
- Point Four
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- U.S. support of Israel
- Economic and military assistance to French in Vietnam when China began supplying arms to rebels (1945-1953)
Dwight D Eisenhower
- 1953-1961
- Republican
- McCarthy Era/Army-McCarthy hearings
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Civil Rights movement
- National Guard to Little Rock Central High
- Continuation of containment
- Dulles - liberation
- Eisenhower Doctrine in Middle East
- Containment in Southeast Asia
- Domino theory
- Suez Crisis
- Massive foreign aid
- SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
- Cuba becomes communist
- Quemoy and Matsu
- U2 Affair
- Ends Korean War
- Continued support South Vietnam
John F Kennedy
- 1961-1963
- Democrat
- New Frontier, Peace Corps
- Civil Rights Bill/March on Washington
- Bay of Pigs invasion
- Cuban Missile Crisis/Acceleration arms race
- Alliance for Progress
- Test Ban Treaty
- Advisors 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/Medicaid
- Elementary and Secondary School Act
- Immigration Act of 1965
- Women's movement, Chicano movement, and Red - Power movement
- Student protest - Civil Rights and Vietnam
- Black power movement
- Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
- Tet Offensive
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Americanization of the War
- Johnson Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Dominican Republic
Richard Nixon
- 1969-1974
- Republican
- Fights inflation
- Devaluation of the dollar
- New Federalism
- Busing to achieve school integration slows down
- Curtails domestic programs
- Kent State
- Watergate and impeachment hearings
- War Powers Resolution
- Vietnamization
- New lottery draft system
- Nixon Doctrine
- Extends war to Cambodia
- Increased bombing to No. Vietnam
- Pentagon Papers
- 26th Amendment
- Detente with China and USSR
- SALT I Treaty
- Armistice in Vietnam (1973)
Gerald Ford
- 1974-1977
- Republican
- Pardoned Nixon
- Struggles with inflation (WIN) and unemployment
- Fall of Vietnam
- Communist takeover of Cambodia
Jimmy Carter
- 1977-1981
- Democrat
- Inflation
- Tries to move away from Imperial presidency
- Conserving energy to reduce dependence on OPEC
- Pardoned all Vietnam draft evaders
- Panama Treaty
- Official recognition Communist China
- SALT II
- Camp David Accords
- Iranian Crisis
- Afghan situation (grain embargo and boycott of Olympics in Moscow)
- Carter Doctrine
Ronald Reagan
- 1981-1989
- Republican
- New Federalism
- Tax cuts and reduction social programs
- supply side economics
- Increased federal deficit
- Trade imbalance
- Hostages returned
- Russia, the "evil empire"
- Reagan Doctrine
- Military buildup and Star Wars research
- Iran Contra Affair
- Invasion of Grenada
George HW Bush
- 1989-1993
- Republican
- Struggled with severe budget deficit
- Military cutbacks
- Prolonged recession
- Rescue of savings and loans
- End of the Cold War
- Sent US forces to Panama to overthrow Noriega
- Persian Gulf War in reaction to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
William (Bill) Clinton
- 1993-2001
- Democrat
- Reduced federal deficit
- Failed attempt for major health care reform
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Welfare reform
- Increase minimum wage
- Controversies Whitewater, Paul Jones, and Monica Lewinsky
- Military buildup and war against Iraq
- Prosperity/low unemployment
- Impeachment Trial
- War in Kosovo
- 2000 Contested Presidential Election
George W Bush
- 2001-2009
- Republican
- Tax Cut
- September 11 Attack on World Trade Center
- Pentagon War on Terrorism -Israel-Palestine Conflict
Barack Obama
- 2009-2017
- Democrat
- First African American elected President
- Continues to increase aggressive economic stimulus package (s) to spur lending and stimulate the American economy
- Proposes troop withdrawals in Iraq and troop increases in Afghanistan
- Affordable Health Care Act
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