13779675912 | George Washington | 1789-1797 Federalist, Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address | 0 | |
13779675913 | John Adams | 1797-1801 Federalist, XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts | 1 | |
13779675914 | Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 Democratic-Republican, Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 1807 | 2 | |
13779675915 | James Madison | 1809-1817 Democratic-Republican,War of 1812; First Protective Tariff | 3 | |
13779675916 | James Monroe | 1817-1825 Democratic-Republican,Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine | 4 | |
13779675917 | John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican,"Corrupt Bargain"; "later fought gag rule" | 5 | |
13779675918 | Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 Democrat,Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act, King Andrew I | 6 | |
13779675919 | Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 Democrat,Jackson's coat tails, Specie Circular; Panic of 1837 | 7 | |
13779675920 | William Henry Harrison | 1841 Whig,"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President, Log Cabins and Hard Cider, shortest term | 8 | |
13779675921 | John Tyler | 1841-1845 Whig,"His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Annexed Texas | 9 | |
13779675922 | James Polk | 1845-1849 Democrat,54-40 or Fight; Mexican War, North Carolinian | 10 | |
13779675923 | Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 Whig,Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist, dies before vetoing Compromise of 1850 | 11 | |
13779675924 | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 Whig,Compromise of 1850 | 12 | |
13779675925 | Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 Democrat,Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase | 13 | |
13779675926 | James Buchanan | 1857-1861 Democrat,Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid, inaction of Fort Sumter | 14 | |
13779675927 | Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 Republican,Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation | 15 | |
13779675928 | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 Democrat,13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment | 16 | |
13779675929 | Ulysses Grant | 1869-1877 Republican,15th amendment; Panic of 1873, Scandals including Credit Mobilier and Whiskey Ring | 17 | |
13779675930 | Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 Republican,Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes | 18 | |
13779675931 | James Garfield | 1881, Republican,Killed over patronage | 19 | |
13779675932 | Chester Arthur | 1881-1885 Republican, signs Pendleton Act into law,Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City | 20 | |
13779675933 | Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat,Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike | 21 | |
13779675934 | Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 Republican,Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier | 22 | |
13779675935 | William McKinley | 1897-1901 Republican,Spanish-American War; Open Door policy, gold Standard | 23 | |
13779675936 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 Republican,Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy | 24 | |
13779675937 | William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 Republican,Dollar diplomacy,TR's handpicked successor,NAACP founded | 25 | |
13779675938 | Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 Democrat,WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare | 26 | |
13779675939 | Warren Harding | 1921-1923 Republican,"Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition | 27 | |
13779675940 | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 Republican,Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative, "Do nothing Cal" | 28 | |
13779675941 | Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 Republican,"Rugged individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff | 29 | |
13779675942 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933-1945 Democrat,New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats" | 30 | |
13779675943 | Harry Truman | 1945-1953 Democrat,A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations | 31 | |
13779675944 | Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 Republican,Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex | 32 | |
13779675945 | John Kennedy | 1961-1963 Democrat,Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps | 33 | |
13779675946 | Lyndon Johnson | 1963-1969 Democrat,Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society | 34 | |
13779675947 | Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 Republican,Environmental Protection Act; Detente; Watergate | 35 | |
13779675948 | Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 Republican,Pardoning of Nixon; Helsinki Accords | 36 | |
13779675949 | Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 Democrat,stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords | 37 | |
13779675950 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 Republican,Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal | 38 | |
13779675951 | George H. W. Bush | 1989-1993 Republican,Persian Gulf War | 39 | |
13779675952 | Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 Democrat,NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment | 40 | |
13779675953 | George W. Bush | 2001-2008 Republican,War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind" | 41 | |
13779675954 | Barack Obama | 2008-2017 Democrat,Affordable Care Act | 42 | |
13779675955 | Donald Trump | 2017-? Republican,"Make America Great Again" | 43 |
AP US History - US Presidents Flashcards
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