AP US History - US Presidents (dates are of elections) Flashcards
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| 6764562386 | George Washington | 1789-1796 Federalist - Cabinet: John Adams (vp), Jefferson (state), Hamilton (treasurer, financial plan) - Bill of Rights - 1789 Judiciary Act, John Jay - Whiskey Rebellion - Jay's Treaty - Farewell Address |  | 0 |
| 6764562387 | John Adams | 1796-1800 Federalist - Judiciary Act of 1801 - John Marshall - XYZ Affair - Alien and Sedition Acts - VA and KY Resolutions |  | 1 |
| 6764562388 | Thomas Jefferson | 1800-1808 Democratic-Republican (Revolution of 1800, with Burr) - Gabriel's Rebellion - Marbury v. Madison - Louisiana Purchase, Lewis + Clark - Embargo of 1807 -> Non intercourse act - Barbury Pirates of Tripoli |  | 2 |
| 6764562389 | James Madison | 1808-1816 Democratic-Republican - War of 1812; Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson and New Orleans; Treaty of Ghent - Protective Tariff of 1816 |  | 3 |
| 6764562390 | James Monroe | 1816-1824 Democratic-Republican - Era of Good feelings - American System - Rise of factory system - Adams-Onis Treaty - Treaty of 1818 - Panic of 1819 - Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Monroe Doctrine - More federal power, less state power (Dartmouth v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland) - Cumberland "national road" |  | 4 |
| 6764562391 | John Quincy Adams | 1824-1828 Democratic-Republican - "Corrupt Bargain" (with Clay) - "Tariff of Abominations" - Erie Canal |  | 5 |
| 6764562392 | Andrew Jackson | 1828-1836 Democrat "Old Hickory" - Peggy Eaton Affair - Nullification Crisis (Exposition and Protest, Force Bill) - Kitchen cabinet/spoils system - Compromise Tariff of 1833 - Indian Removal Act (Worcester v. Georgia, Trail of Tears, Treaty of New Echota) - Bank War (Biddle, 2nd Natl. Bank) - Start of the Whigs (after re-election) - Specie Circular (wildcat banks, panic of 1837) - Texas declares independence (1836-1845), Battle of Alamo |  | 6 |
| 6764562393 | Martin Van Buren | 1836-1840 Democrat ("OK") - Trail of Tears - Panic of 1837 - Put off Texas annexation - some utopian societies |  | 7 |
| 6764562394 | William Henry Harrison | 1840-1841 Whig - "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" (common man) - First Whig President |  | 8 |
| 6764562395 | John Tyler | 1841-1844 Whig - Webster-Ashburton Treaty - Term "Manifest Destiny" coined - Oregon Trail - Annexed Texas 1845 - Immigration from Ireland, Germany (1840s-1860) |  | 9 |
| 6764562396 | James Polk | 1844-1848 Democrat (vs. Clay) - Oregon Treaty (54 40) - Mexican War (1846-1848) (Taylor, Robert -E. Lee, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) - Start of Free Soil Party (Buren; Wilmot Proviso) - Seneca Falls Convention (Stanton, Mott) |  | 10 |
| 6764562397 | Zachary Taylor | 1848-1850 Whig - Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist |  | 11 |
| 6764562398 | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1852 Whig - Compromise of 1850 (fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty) - Bessemer Process |  | 12 |
| 6764562399 | Franklin Pierce | 1852-1856 Democrat - Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854; Douglas; Border ruffians; bleeding kansas, sack of Lawrence; Brooks/Sumner) - Gadsden Purchase - "American" or "Know-Nothing" party - Start of Republican Party - Treaty with Japan (Commodore Perry) |  | 13 |
| 6764562400 | James Buchanan | 1856-1860 Democrat - Dred Scott v. Sanford (Judge Roger B. Taney) - Lecompton Constitution - Lincoln v. Douglas ("Freeport doctrine") debates - Harpers Ferry raid (John Brown) - Crittenden Compromise - Drake drills for oil in PA |  | 14 |
| 6764562401 | Abraham Lincoln | 1860-1865 Republican - Civil War 1st part (Secession; Confederacy and Davis; Fort Sumter; ironclads Merrimac and Monitor; Anaconda plan; 1st/2nd Bull runs and McClellan vs. Lee; Antietam; Grant) - Suspension of Habeas Corpus - King Cotton Diplomacy - New York draft riots - Homestead act - Turning point of war (Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg 1863; Surrender at Vicksburg; Sherman's March) - 13th Amendment 1865 - Greenbacks, higher tarriffs - women: Red cross, Clara Barton - 10% plan (Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, instead of Wade-Davis Bill) - Freedmen's Bureau (Scalawags; carpetbaggers) - John Wilkes Booth |  | 15 |
| 6764562402 | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1868 Democrat - 10%+ plan - Black codes - Civil rights act of 1866 -> 14th amendment Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment - Rise of KKK - Reconstruction Acts of 1867 (military reconstruction; command of army; tenure of office act -> near-impeachment) - Seward's Folly |  | 16 |
| 6764562403 | Ulysses Grant | 1868-1876 Republican "waving bloody shirt" vs. Seymour - Credit mobilier - Whisky Ring scandal - Indian ring scandal - Tweed ring (Tammany hall; nast) - 15th amendment (enforcement acts/KKK act) - Panic of 1873 (Crime of '73, start of Greenback party) - Civil rights act of 1875 - U.S. vs. Cruikshank - Promontory point UT - Grant's treaty (natives) |  | 17 |
| 6764562404 | Rutherford Hayes | 1876-1880 Republican - Compromise of 1877 - labor unions and strikes (Great Railroad strike of 1877, Munn v. Illinois, granger mvt.) - Exodus movement - Natives: Nez Pierce War, Little big horn v. custer, Geronimo? - Stalwarts; Mugwumps; half-breeds |  | 18 |
| 6764562405 | James Garfield | 1880-1881, Republican - Pendleton act (civil service act) |  | 19 |
| 6764562406 | Chester Arthur | 1881-1884 Republican - Standard Oil trust created - Brooklyn Bridge - Edison lights up New York City - Dowd; time zones - Chinese exclusion act |  | 20 |
| 6764562407 | Grover Cleveland | 1884-1888 Democrat - Wabash v. Illinois (fed govt intervention on economy) - Interstate Commerce Act - Dawes Act - Knights of Labor; Haymarket affair - AFL (Gompers) - IWW (Debs) |  | 21 |
| 6764562408 | Benjamin Harrison | 1888-1892 Republican - Ghost Dance (Wounded Knee) - Sherman Anti-Trust Act - Sherman Silver Purchase act - Closure of the frontier - McKinley Tariff - Start of populist party (omaha convention) - Homestead strike |  | 22 |
| 6765960650 | Grover Cleveland | 1892-1896 Democrat - Panic of 1893 - Pullman Strike - Wilson-Gorman Tariff - Hawaii (Queen Lili; Dole) - Plessy v. Ferguson | 23 | |
| 6764562409 | William McKinley | 1896-1901 Republican vs. William Jennings Bryan (Cross of Gold) - Hawaii annexation - Waldorf-Astoria/Bradley Martin ball - Spanish-American War (yellow journalism; Teller Amendment; Treaty of Paris; Platt Amendment; Rough riders and San Juan Hill) - Olney interpretation - Gold standard act - Open Door policy with china |  | 24 |
| 6764562410 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1908 Republican - Steffens "Shame of the Cities" - Sinclair "The Jungle" (Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug act) - Progressivism - Square Deal - Panama Canal - Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Diplomacy) - Muller v. Oregon - Panic of 1907 |  | 25 |
| 6764562411 | William Howard Taft | 1908-1912 Republican - Dollar diplomacy - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - NAACP founded - Hull House (Jane Addams) - National Womens party (Alice Paul) - Dept. of Labor - 16th and 17th amendments - Rise of progressive party |  | 26 |
| 6764562412 | Woodrow Wilson | 1912-1920 Democrat - vs. roosevelt (progressive), taft, debs - Clayton anti-trust act WWI (Council of national defense; committee on public info and creel; espionage and sedition acts; war industries board; victory gardens; national war labor board and Gompers; overman act) - Schenck v. US - Paris peace conference; treaty of versailles; League of Nations - 18th (volstead; anti-saloon league) and 19th amendments - reform (Keating-Owen child labor act; Adamson act) Segregation of federal offices; - First Red Scare (great steel strike; palmer raids; sacco-vanzetti; FBI) |  | 27 |
| 6764562413 | Warren Harding | 1920-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy" - return to isolationism - Lost generation; Harlem Renaissance - Tea Pot Dome scandal - Prohibition - Great migration; UNIA; Garvey of Jamaica and pan-africanism |  | 28 |
| 6764562414 | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1928 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) -conservative - National origin act of 1924 - monkey scopes trial (ACLU and Darrow, William J Bryan; cultural fundamentalism) |  | 29 |
| 6764562415 | Herbert Hoover | 1928-1932 Republican "American individualism" - Stock Market Crash - Voluntarism - Reconstruction Finance corp - Dust Bowl - Hawley-Smoot Tariff - Bonus Army |  | 30 |
| 6764562416 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1932-1945 Democrat - New Deal (relief, recovery, reform; FDIC; AAA; NIRA; FERA; CCC.... ; social security act, wagner act or national labor relations act; 2nd AAA (struck down -> court packing plan); TVA; WPA) - Brain trust - New Deal opposition and responses: Long -> revenue act of 1935; Coughlin -> banking act of 1935; Townsend -> social security act) - Indian reorganization act - Roosevelt Coalition - WWII (Axis powers; cash and carry -> lend-lease -> involvement; Atlantic Charter; Pearl Harbor; Casablanca; Tehran/Teheren) - Japanese Internment (executive order 9066; Korematsu vs. US) - D-Day; Hiroshima/Nagasaki; V-J day; Yalta Conference) - Double V campaign - GI Bill - "Fireside Chats" - Good neighbor policy - Died |  | 31 |
| 6764562417 | Harry Truman | 1945-1952 Democrat - A-bomb and atomic energy commission; Potsdam conference; nuremberg trials - "Fair Deal" - Civil Rights (Commission; "To Secure These Rights"; desegregated military) - Marshall Plan - Truman doctrine; containment; Berlin Airlift; NATO and Warsaw Pact; Korean War and Macarthur) - Strike wave of 1946 -> Taft-hartley act - United Nations |  | 32 |
| 6764562418 | Dwight Eisenhower | 1952-1960 Republican - Warren court (Brown v. Board of Education; Engel v. Vitale; Miranda v. Arizona; Thurgood Marshall; Baker v. Carr; Tinker v. Moines) - Emmett Till; Rosa parks and montgomery busing; Massive Resistance; Little Rock; Civil Rights Act Second Red Scare (McCarthyism; Red menace; Hollywood Ten; Rosenbergs; ) - Interstate Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight") - Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex - Geneva Convention, U-2 incident - Replaced French in vietnam - NASA |  | 33 |
| 6764562419 | John Kennedy | 1960-1963 Democrat - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; - Peace Corps - Chavez and United Farm Workers |  | 34 |
| 6764562420 | Lyndon Johnson | 1963-1968 Democrat - Civil and Voting Rights acts (1964, 1965); Freedom summer/rides; sit-ins; SNCC and John Lewis; Bull Connor and MLK; Medgar Evans; Malcolm X; black power mvt. - Election of 1964 (New Left and SDS and post huron; Goldwater and YAF/New Right) - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Tet Offensive; - Pueblo Incident of 1968 - Great Society; Medicaid/medicare; Immigration act of 1965; Harrington "the other America"; Carson "Silent Spring - counterculture (Beat generation; anti war; woodstock music festival; Kent and Jackson state colleges) - NOW (Feminine mystique; ERA); Stonewall revolt - Robert K. assassination, MLK assassination |  | 35 |
| 6764562421 | Richard Nixon | 1968-1974 Republican v. split democrats "rep of the silent majority" - EPA; DDT ban; clean air act; clean water act; resource recovery act - Equal credit opportunity act; Title IX - New Federalism - Stagflation; economic stabilization act - peace with honor; Vietnamization; My Lai Massacre; Pentagon papers; Detente; War powers act - SALT I and II - China visit - Burger/Nixon court (roe v. wade; swann v. charlotte; bakke v. UC) - Moon Landing - Watergate |  | 36 |
| 6764562422 | Gerald Ford | 1974-1976 Republican - Pardoning of Nixon - Whip Inflation Now (WIN) - OPEC crisis |  | 37 |
| 6764562423 | Jimmy Carter | 1976-1980 Democrat - stagflation - energy crisis - Iran hostage crisis - Camp David Accords - Carter Doctrine - Panama Canal agreements |  | 38 |
| 6764562424 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 Republican - Reaganomics/supply-side/trickel-down economics - Strategic defense initiative (star wars) - Conservative revolution - Iran-Contra scandal |  | 39 |
| 6764562425 | George H. W. Bush | 1988-1992 Republican - Persian Gulf War |  | 40 |
| 6764562426 | Bill Clinton | 1992-2000 Democrat - NAFTA - Lewinsky scandal and impeachment |  | 41 |
| 6764562427 | George W. Bush | 2000-2008 Republican - Bush v. Gore - War on terrorism - Patriot Act - Tax cuts - "No Child Left Behind" |  | 42 |
| 6764562428 | Barack Obama | 2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act |  | 43 |