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65560911George Washington• 1789-1797 • VP-John Adams • Secretary of State-Thomas Jefferson • Secretary of Treasury-Alexander Hamilton • Major Items: o Judiciary Act o Tariff of 1789 o Whiskey Rebellion o French Revolution-Citizen Genént, o Jay Treaty with England o Pinckney Treaty with Spain o Farewell Address o First Bank of the United States0
65560912John Adams• 1797-1801 • Federalist • VP-Thomas Jefferson • Major Items: o XYZ Affair o Alien and Sedition Act o Naturalization Act o "Midnight Judges" o Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions1
65560913Thomas Jefferson• 1801-1809 • Republican • VP-Aaron Burr • Secretary of State-James Madison • Major Items: o Marbury v. Madison o Louisiana Purchase o Lewis and Clark Expedition o 12th Amendment o Embargo Act, 1807 o Non-Intercourse Act2
65560914James Madison• 1809-1817 • Republican • VP-George Clinton • Secretary of State-James Monroe • Major Items: o Macon Act o Berlin and Milan Decrees o Order in Council o "War Hawks" o War of 1812 o Hartford Convention o First Protective Tariff3
65560915James Monroe• 1817-1825 • Republican • VP-Tompkins • Secretary of State-John Quincy Adams • Major Items: o Marshall's Decisions: McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden o Acquisition of Florida from Spain o Transcontinental or Adams-Onis Treaty o Missouri Compromise o Monroe Doctrine o Sectional Tariff o Favorite Sons Election4
65560916John Quincy Adams• 1825-1829 • National Republican • VP-John Calhoun • Secretary of State-Henry Clay • Major Items: o "Corrupt Bargain" o Erie Canal o Tariff of Abominations o Calhoun's Exposition and Protest5
65560917Andrew Jackson• 1829-1837 • Democrat • VP-John Calhoun and Martin Van Buren • Major Items: o Jacksonian Democracy o Tariffs of 1832 and 1833 o The 2nd Bank of the United States o Formation of the Whig Party6
65560918Martin Van Buren• 1837-1841 • Democrat • VP-Richard M. Johnson • Major Items: o Panic of 1837 o Specie Circulation, no Bank of the United States o Unsound financing by state governments7
65560919William Henry Harrison• 1841 • VP-John Tyler • Secretary of State-Daniel Webster8
65560920John Tyler• 1841-1845 • Anti-Jackson Democrat • Secretary of State-Daniel Webster • Major Items: o Webster-Ashburton Treaty o Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of the United States o Canadian Border set at 45th Parallel9
65560921James K. Polk• 1845-1849 • Original "dark horse" candidate • VP-Dallas • Major Items: o Manifest Destiny o Texas becomes a state o Oregon boundary settled o Mexican War o Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo o Wilmot Proviso10
65560922Zachary Taylor• 1849-1850 • Whig • VP-Millard Fillmore11
65560923Millard Fillmore• 1850-1853 • Whig • Secretary of State-Daniel Webster • Major Items: o Compromise of 1850 o Clayton-Bulwer Treaty o Uncle Tom's Cabin12
65560924Franklin Pierce• 1853-1857 • Democrat • VP-King • Major Items: o Kansas-Nebraska Bill o Popular sovereignty o Japan opened to world trade o Underground Railroad o Bleeding Kansas o Ostend Manifesto13
65560925James Buchanan• 1857-1861 • Democrat • VP-Breckinridge • Major Items: o Dred Scott decision o Lincoln-Douglas Debates14
65560926Abraham Lincoln• 1861-1865 • Republican • VP-Andrew Johnson • Secretary of State-William H. Seward • Secretary of Treasury-Salmon P. Chase • Secretary of War-Edwin M. Stanton • Major Items: o Civil War o Emancipation Proclamation o Homestead Act o Morill act o Assassination15
65560927Andrew Johnson• 1865-1869 • Republican • Secretary of State-William H. Seward • Major Items: o 13th Amendment o 14th Amendment o Reconstruction Act o Tenure of Office Act o Impeachment Trial o Formation of KKK o Adoption of Black Codes in the South16
65560928Ulysses S. Grant• 1869-1877 • Republican • VP-Colfax, Wilson • Secretary of State-Hamilton • Major Items: o 15th Amendment o First Transcontinental Railroad o Tweed Ring o Panic of 1873 o Credit Mobilier o Whiskey Ring o Indian Ring17
65560929Rutherford B. Hayes• 1877-1881 • Republican • VP-Wheeler • Major Items: o Bland-Allison Act o Troops withdrawn from South18
65560930James A. Garfield• 1881 • Republican • VP-Chester Arthur • Secretary of State-James A. Blaine • Major Items: o Assassinated by Julius Guiteau19
65560931Chester A. Arthur• 1881-1885 • Republican • Secretary of State-James A. Blaine • Major Items: o Pendleton Act20
65560932Grover Cleveland• 1885-1889 • Democrat • VP-Hendrix • Major Items: o Knights of Labor o Haymarket Riot o Interstate Commerce Act o Washburn v. Illinois21
65560933Benjamin Harrison• 1889-1893 • Republican • VP-Morton • Secretary of State-James A. Blaine • Major Items: o Sherman Anti-trust Act o Populist Party Platform o North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington become states o Idaho and Wyoming become states o McKinley Tariff o Sherman Act22
65560934Grover Cleveland• 1893-1897 • Democrat • VP-Stevenson • Major Items: o Panic of 1893 o Hawaiian incident o Venezuelan Boundary Affair o Pullman Strike o American Federation of Labor o Wilson-Gorman Tariff23
65560935William McKinley• 1897-1901 • Republican • VP-Garet Hobart, 1896-1900 VP-Theodore Roosevelt • Secretary of State-John Hay • Major Items: o New Imperialism o Spanish-American War o Open Door Policy o Boxer Rebellion o Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz24
65560936Theodore Roosevelt• 1901-1908 • Republican • VP-Fairbanks • Secretary of State- John Hay, Elihu Root • Major Items: o Panama Canal o "Square Deal" o Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine o Portsmouth Treaty o Gentleman's Aggrement with Japan o Hague Conference o Hepburn Act o Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers" o Trust-busting o Coal Strike o Conservation o Venezuelan Debt Controversy o Dominican Republic Crisis o Algerian Conference over Morocco25
65560937William Howard Taft• 1909-1913 • Republican • VP-Sherman • Major Items: o Paine-Aldrich Treaty o Pinchot-Ballinger controversy o "Dollar Diplomacy"26
65560938Woodrow Wilson• 1913-1921 • Democrat • VP-Marshall • Major Items: o Underwood Tariff o 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments o Federal Reserve System o Glassower Act o Federal Trade Commission o Clayton Anti-Trust Act o Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico o The Lusitania o "Fourteen Points" o Treaty of Versailles o "New Freedom"27
65560939Warren G. Harding• 1921-1923 • "Dark Horse" candidate • Republican • VP-Calvin Coolidge • Secretary of State- Charles Evans Hughes • Major Items: o Teapot Dome Scandal o Washington Conference o Fordney-McCumber Tariff28
65560940Calvin Coolidge• 1923-1929 • Republican • VP-Dawes • Secretary of State-Kellogg • Major Items: o Kellogg-Braind Pact29
65560941Herbert Hoover• 1929-1933 • Republican • VP-Curtis • Secretary of State-Henry L. Stimson • Major Items: o National Origins Immigration Act o Panic and Depression o Stock Market Crash o Hawley-Smoot Tariff30
65560942Franklin D. Roosevelt• 1933-1945 • Democrat • VP-Garner, Wallace, Truman • Major Items: o New Deal o "Alphabet Soup" bureaucracies o WWII o Labor reforms31
65560943Harry S. Truman• 1945-1953 • Democrat • VP-Barkley • Major Items: o WWII ends o Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki o Taft-Harley Act o Truman Doctrine o Marshall Plan o North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) o Korean War o "Fair Deal"32
65560944Dwight D. Eisenhower• 1953-1961 • Republican • VP-Nixon • Major Items: o 22nd Amendment o Brown v. Board of Education o Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) o Suez Crisis o Eisenhower Doctrine o The "race for space" o Alaska and Hawaii become states33
65560945John F. Kennedy• 1961-1963 • Democrat • VP-Lyndon B. Johnson • Major Items: o Alliance for Progress o Baker v. Carr o Peace Corps o Cuban Missile Crisis o "New Frontier" o Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty o Assassinated in Dallas Texas34
65560946Lyndon B. Johnson• 1963-1968 • Democrat • VP-Humphrey • Major Items: o "Cold War" o Cuban Policy o Income tax cut o Wesberry v. Sanders o Civil Rights Act o Voting Rights Act o Anti-Poverty Act o Elementary and Secretary educational reform o Medicare o "Great Society"35
65560947Richard M. Nixon• 1963-1968 • Republican • VP-Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford • Major Items: o "Imperial Presidency" o Landing on the moon o Warren Burger, chief justice o Woodstock o Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) o 16th Amendment o Visit to China o Visit to Russia o Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) o Kissinger and "shuttle diplomacy" o Wounded Knee, South Dakota o Allende regime in Chile overthrow with the help of the CIA o Agnew resigns o Nixon resigns just prior to impeachment vote o Pentagon Papers36
65560948Gerald Ford• 1974-1976 • Republican • 1st appointed President • VP-Nelson Rockefeller o Pardons Richard Nixon o OPEC crisis37
65560949Jimmy Carter• 1977-1981 • Democrat • VP-Walter Mondale • Major Items: o Panama Canal Treaty signed o Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan o Three-Mile Island Incident o Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Prize o Iran Hostage Crisis o Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets o "Stagflation" o Boycott38
65560950Ronald Reagan• 1981-1989 • Republican • VP-George Bush • Major Items: o Hostages returned o Falkland Islands Crisis o 1500 Marines sent to Beirut o Grenada o Nicaragua o Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court o "Supply-side Economics" o Iran-Contra Hearings39
65560951George H. Bush• 1989-1993 • Republican • VP-Dan Quayle • Major Items: o Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany o Savings and Loans Scandal o Invasion of Panama o Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War)40
65560952Bill Clinton• 1993-2001 • Democrat • VP-Al Gore • Major Items: o North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) o Proposed a national health care system o Participated in air strikes in Bosnia o Participated in air strikes in Iraq o Sex Scandal o Participated in air strikes on Serbia41
65560953George W. Bush• 2001-2009 • Republican • VP-Dick Cheney • Major Items: o Disputed election, eventually decided by the Supreme Court o "Compassionate Conservatism" o September 11, 2001 Attacks o War on Terrorism, post-September 11, 2001  Attacks on terrorist forces in Afghanistan  Patriot Act  Iraq War and Occupation  Proposed Social Security Reform42
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