6767393487 | George Washington (1789-1797) | No political party Judiciary Act of 1789 Bill of Rights 1789 Hamilton's Financial Plan (U.S. Bank) Beginning of political parties Whisky Rebellion of 1794 Two-term tradition Washington's Farewell Address French Revolution Proclamation of Neutrality Jay's Treaty Pinckney's Treaty | 0 | |
6767404175 | John Adams (1797-1801) | Federalist John Marshall appointed Chief Justice "Midnight appointees" Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Second Great Awakening XYZ Affair | 1 | |
6767418141 | Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) | Democratic-Republican Revolution of 1800 Marbury v. Madison 12th Amendment Louisiana Purchase Lewis & Clark expeditions Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton Slave imports outlawed Napoleonic Wars Chesapeake-Leopard Affair Embargo Act 1809 Non-intercourse Act Barbary pirates/Tripolitan War | 2 | |
6767425477 | James Madison (1809-1817) | Protective Tariff of 1816 Hartford Convention War of 1812 Battle of New Orleans Treaty of Ghent | 3 | |
6767429664 | James Monroe (1817-1825) | Democratic Republican "Era of Good Feeling" Transportation revolution Marshall Court Rise of factory system Depression of 1819 Missouri Compromise Monroe Doctrine Adams-Onis Treaty | 4 | |
6767449734 | John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) | Democratic Republican Corrupt bargain/election of 1824 Erie canal completed Tariff of Abominations The American System | 5 | |
6767454205 | Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) | Democrat "King Andrew" "King Veto" Spoils system Kitchen cabinet Bank war Indian Removal Act Refusal of Worcester v. Georgia Nullification crisis Second nullification crisis Force Bill Compromise Tariff of 1833 Panic of 1837 Texas Independence Battle of the Alamo | 6 | |
6767474499 | Martin van Buren (1837-1841) | Democrat Panic of 1837 Trail of Tears Decline of internal improvements | 7 | |
6767476607 | William H Harrison (1841) | Whig Died in office after 1 month | 8 | |
6767482119 | John Tyler (1841-1845) | Whig Texas annexation Rejects national bank recharter Kicked out of Whig party | 9 | |
6767550907 | James K Polk (1845-1849) | Democrat "Fifty-four forty or fight" Oregon Treaty Wilmot Proviso rejected California Gold Rush Seneca Falls Convention Mexican War Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 10 | |
6767555509 | Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) | Whig Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Threatens southern leaders | 11 | |
6767559370 | Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) | Whig Compromise of 1850 | 12 | |
6767563099 | Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) | Democrat Gadsden Purchase Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Ostend Manifesto Treaty with Japan | 13 | |
6767571661 | James Buchanan (1857-1861) | Democrat Dred Scott decision Lincoln-Douglas debates John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid Crittenden Compromise | 14 | |
6767575451 | Abraham Lincoln (1865-1869) | Republican Fort Sumter Civil War Suspension of Habeas corpus Emancipation proclamation NYC Draft Riots Morrill tariff 13th amendment 10% plan Lincoln's assassination Freedman's Bureau Wade-Davis bill vetoed | 15 | |
6767578927 | Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) | Democrat Civil Rights Act of 1866 14th amendment Reconstruction act Tenure Office Act Johnson's impeachment Black Codes 15th amendment | 16 | |
6767642063 | Ulysses S Grant (1869-1877) | Republican "Waving the bloody shirt" Whisky Ring Credit Mobilier scandal Force Act Civil Rights Act | 17 | |
6767649576 | Rutherford B Hayes (1877-1881) | Republican Compromise of 1877 Railroad Strike of 1877 Gilded Age Munn v. Illinois Beginnings of civil service exam | 18 | |
6767654087 | James A Garfield (1881) | Republican Assassinated Divided party (Stalwarts, Half-breeds, Mugwumps) | 19 | |
6767656882 | Chester A Arthur (1881-1885) | Republican Honest administration; fought corruption Pendleton Act Anti-High tariff Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | 20 | |
6767664607 | Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) | Democrat Civil service reform Growth of robber barons American Federation of Labor formed Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois 1886 | 21 | |
6767668801 | Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) | Republican Farmer's Alliance Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 McKinley Tariff Act 1890 Homestead Strike 1892 Battle of Wounded Knee Pan-American conference | 22 | |
6767672055 | Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) | Democrat Rise of Populist party Depression of 1893 Pullman Strike of 1894 Coxey's Army 1894 Republic of Hawaii United States v. E.C. Knight Company | 23 | |
6767676306 | William McKinley (1897-1901) | Republican Election vs. William Jennings Bryan (cross of gold speech) Gold Standard Act Hawaii annexed Spanish-American War Teller Amendment Open door policy Foraker Act Platt Amendment | 24 | |
6767678118 | Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) | Republican Square Deal Progressive Era begins (1901-1921) Conservation Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act United Mine Workers Strike Department of Commerce and Labor created Elkins Act Roosevelt Corollary-- "speak softly and carry a big stick" Treaty of Portsmouth Lochner v. New York Hepburn Act | 25 | |
6767683022 | William Howard Taft (1909-1913) | Republican Dollar Diplomacy Payne-Aldrich Tariff 16th Amendment 17th amendment Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy Mann-Elkins Act Trustbuster | 26 | |
6767704903 | Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) | Democrat New Freedom Underwood tariff Federal Reserve Act Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Trust commission Keating Owen Child Labor Act Espionage and Sedition Acts 1918 Schenck v. United States Red Scare Palmer raids End of Progressivism Mexican Revolution World War I 14 Points League of Nations Treaty of Versailles | 27 | |
6767707468 | Warren G Harding (1921-1923) | Republican Teapot Dome scandal Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Return to isolation | 28 | |
6767714029 | Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) | Republican Stock market speculation Immigration Act of 1924 Roaring twenties Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 | 29 | |
6767732997 | Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) | Republican Stock market crash Advocates voluntarism; opposed direct relief Reconstruction Finance Corporation Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930 Hoovervilles | 30 | |
6767736042 | Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-1945) | Democrat Brain trust Fireside chats New Deal--relief, recovery, reform Bank holiday Hundred Days First New Deal Second New Deal Court-packing plan Korematsu v. United States Good Neighbor Policy Neutrality Acts 1935, 1936, 1937 Quarantine Speech Cash and Carry policy Lend-Lease act Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor Yalta conference Manhattan Project | 31 | |
6767740190 | Harry S Truman (1945-1953) | Democrat Fair Deal To Secure These Rights 1947 National Security Act--Department of Defense Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Act Mccarthyism Potsdam Conference United Nations Cold War Containment policy Churchill's Iron Curtain speech Marshall Plan 1947 Truman Doctrine 1947 NATO Berlin Blockade Korean War (1950-1953) | 32 | |
6767743652 | Dwight D Eisenhower (1953-1961) | Republican Won several "solid south" states in election Earl Warren Court Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1960 NASA USSR launch of Sputnik Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Beginning of Vietnam intervention Vietnam War (1955-1975) Cuban Revolution 1959--Fidel Castro | 33 | |
6767746054 | John F Kennedy (1961-1963) | Democrat New Frontier Freedom riders March on Washington 1963 Bay of Pigs 1961 Berlin Wall 1961 Alliance for Progress Peace corps Assassination 1963 | 34 | |
6767753395 | Lyndon B Johnson (1963-1969) | Democrat Great Society Civil Rights Act of 1964 Immigration Act of 1965 Cesar Chavez founds United Farm Workers American Indian Movement New Left Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Counterculture Black power movement Martin Luther King's assassination 1968 National Organization for Women (NOW) Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Equal Rights Amendment fails | 35 | |
6767754795 | Richard Nixon (1969-1974) | Republican New Federalism Burger Court Voting Rights Act Kent State 1970 Pentagon Papers 1971 War Powers Act 1973 My Lai Massacre Watergate Vietnamization U.S. troops invade Cambodia SALT--Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with USSR Divided party (Stalwarts, Half-breeds, Mugwumps) Arab oil embargo against US through OPEC--Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | 36 | |
6767759909 | Gerald Ford (1974-1977) | Republican Pardons Nixon Stagflation | 37 | |
6767762717 | Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) | Democrat Social Security Act (1977) Panama Canal treaties Recognition of communist China SALT II Iranian hostage crisis Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 Camp David Summit | 38 | |
6767765904 | Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) | Republican Anti-big government Tax cuts Reaganomics Supply-side economics Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) Iran-Contra Affair Calls Soviet Union the evil empire | 39 | |
6767771249 | George H W Bush (1989-1993) | Republican Abandons Reaganomics Exxon Valdez Accident Americans with Disabilities Act Tiananmen Square Collapse of communism Persian Gulf Crisis End of Cold War and Soviet Union Operation Desert Storm | 40 | |
6767773160 | Bill Clinton (1993-2001) | Democrat Don't ask don't tell policy failed health care reform Family and Medical Leave Act Whitewater Scandal Impeachment NAFTA World Trade Organization (WTO) Welfare Reform Bill 1996 | 41 | |
6767788934 | George W Bush (2001-2009) | Republican No Child Left Behind Bill | 42 |
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