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6766427611George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
6766427612John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
6766427613Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
6766427614James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
6766427615James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine, Era of Good Feelings4
6766427616John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
6766427617Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act --> Trail of Tears6
6766427618Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
6766427619William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
6766427620John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Annexed Texas9
6766427621James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War: 54-40 or fight!10
6766427622Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
6766427623Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 1850, Opened Japan12
6766427624Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase, Ostend Manifesto13
6766427625James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid, did nothing to stop secession14
6766427626Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
6766427627Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
6766427628Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 1873; Whiskey Ring Scandals17
6766427629Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
6766427630James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
6766427631Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City; Pendleton Act20
6766427632Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike; won two nonconsecutive terms21
6766427633Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier; First Billion Dollar Congress22
6766427634William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy; He prayed23
6766427635Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy; Conservation24
6766427636William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded; broke up most trusts25
6766427637Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare; Federal Reserve Act26
6766427638Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
6766427639Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
6766427640Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
6766427641Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
6766427642Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations; Truman Doctrine; Rejected Fair Deal31
6766427643Dwight 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
6766427644John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
6766427645Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
6766427646Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
6766427647Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
6766427648Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
6766427649Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal; STAR WARS38
6766427650George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
6766427651Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impeachment; Economic prosperity40
6766427652George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
6766427653Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
6766427654Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

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