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8735795703George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
8735795704John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
8735795705Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
8735795706James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
8735795707James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
8735795708John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
8735795709Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act6
8735795710Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
8735795711William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
8735795712John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
8735795713James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War10
8735795714Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
8735795715Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
8735795716Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
8735795717James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
8735795718Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
8735795719Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat *13th and 14th amendments*; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
8735795720Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican *15th amendment*; Panic of 187317
8735795721Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican *Compromise of 1877*; labor unions and strikes18
8735795722James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office *Shot at a train station*19
8735795723Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City; Opening of Brooklyn Bridge; *Pendleton Act*20
8735795724Grover Cleveland1885-1889 Democrat *Interstate Commerce Act*; Dawes Act21
8735795725Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican *McKinley Tariff*; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
8735801634Grover Cleveland1893-1897 Democrat *Panic of 1893*23
8735795726William McKinley1897-1901 Republican *Spanish-American War*; Open Door policy24
8735795727Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy25
8735795728William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded26
8735795729Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare27
8735795730Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition28
8735795731Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative29
8735795732Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff30
8735795733Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"31
8735795734Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations32
8735795735Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex33
8735795736John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps34
8735795737Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society35
8735795738Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate36
8735795739Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis37
8735795740Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords38
8735795741Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal39
8735795742George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War40
8735795743Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment41
8735795744George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"42
8735795745Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act43
8735795746Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"44

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