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6766363629George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
6766363630John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
6766363631Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 1807 (shut down America's import and export business)2
6766363632James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812(Treaty of Ghent); First Protective Tariff, American System, Hartford Convention3
6766363633James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Era of Good Feeling (ends with Panic of 1819) Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine, Adam-Onis Treaty (Florida from Spain), Missouri Compromise, 2nd Great Awakening4
6766363634John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations", no more congressional caucuses, 2nd Great Awakening5
6766363635Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat (supporters of Jackson); Jacksonian democracy, spoils system, "pet banks", states rights but no nullification, Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act, Specie Circular-> Panic of 18376
6766363636Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; continued Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
6766363637William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President, died a month after office8
6766363638John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; advocated fr state's rights-> "president without a party", Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
6766363639James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican-American War, settled Oregon Territory, Gold Rush10
6766363640Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
6766363641Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
6766363642Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
6766363643James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
6766363644Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment15
6766363645Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
6766363646Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 187317
6766363647Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
6766363648James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
6766363649Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
6766363650Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
6766363651Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
6766363652William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy23
6766363653Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
6766363654William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded25
6766363655Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
6766363656Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
6766363657Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
6766363658Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
6766363659Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
6766363660Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
6766363661Dwight 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
6766363662John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
6766363663Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
6766363664Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
6766363665Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
6766363666Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
6766363667Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
6766363668George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
6766363669Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
6766363670George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
6766363671Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
6766363672Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

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