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9165716221George Washington1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Farewell Address0
9165716222John Adams1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts1
9165716223Thomas Jefferson1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 18072
9165716224James Madison1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff3
9165716225James Monroe1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine4
9165716226John Quincy Adams1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"5
9165716227Andrew Jackson1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act6
9165716228Martin Van Buren1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 18377
9165716229William Henry Harrison1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President8
9165716230John Tyler1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty9
9165716231James Polk1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War10
9165716232Zachary Taylor1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist11
9165716233Millard Fillmore1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 185012
9165716234Franklin Pierce1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase13
9165716235James Buchanan1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid14
9165716236Abraham Lincoln1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation15
9165716237Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment16
9165716238Ulysses Grant1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 187317
9165716239Rutherford Hayes1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes18
9165716240James Garfield1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office19
9165716241Chester Arthur1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City20
9165716242Grover Cleveland1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike21
9165716243Benjamin Harrison1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier22
9165716244William McKinley1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy23
9165716245Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy24
9165716246William Howard Taft1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded25
9165716247Woodrow Wilson1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare26
9165716248Warren Harding1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition27
9165716249Calvin Coolidge1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative28
9165716250Herbert Hoover1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff29
9165716251Franklin Delano Roosevelt1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"30
9165716252Harry Truman1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations31
9165716253Dwight 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
9165716254John Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps33
9165716255Lyndon Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society34
9165716256Richard Nixon1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate35
9165716257Gerald Ford1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis36
9165716258Jimmy Carter1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords37
9165716259Ronald Reagan1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal38
9165716260George H. W. Bush1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War39
9165716261Bill Clinton1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment40
9165716262George W. Bush2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"41
9165716263Barack Obama2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act42
9165716264Donald Trump2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again"43

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