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8490539073George Washington (Period 3)1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
8490539074John Adams (Transition to Period 4)1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
8490539075Thomas Jefferson (Period 4)1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
8490539076James Madison. (Period 4)1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
8490539077James Monroe. (Period 4)1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
8490539078John Quincy Adams. ( Period 4)1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
8490539079Andrew Jackson. (Period 4)1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act6
8490539080Martin Van Buren. (Period 4)1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
8490539081William Henry Harrison. (Period 4)1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
8490539082John Tyler. (Period 4)1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
8490539083James Polk. (Period 4)1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War10
8490539084Zachary Taylor. (Transition to period 5)1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
8490539085Millard Fillmore. (Period 5)1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
8490539086Franklin Pierce. (Period 5)1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
8490539087James Buchanan. (Period 5)1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
8490539088Abraham Lincoln. (Period 5)1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
8490539089Andrew Johnson. (Period 5)1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
8490539090Ulysses Grant. (Period 5)1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 187317
8490539091Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
8490539092James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
8490539093Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
8490539094Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
8490539095Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
8490539096William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy23
8490539097Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
8490539098William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded25
8490539099Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
8490539100Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
8490539101Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
8490539102Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
8490539103Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
8490539104Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
8490539105Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex32
8490539106John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
8490539107Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
8490539108Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
8490539109Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
8490539110Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
8490539111Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
8490539112George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
8490539113Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
8490539114George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
8490539115Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
8490539116Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

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