AP US History - US Presidents Flashcards
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9809361920 | George Washington | 1789-1797 Federalist Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Neutrality; Farewell Address | ![]() | 0 |
9809361921 | John Adams | 1797-1801 Federalist XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts | ![]() | 1 |
9809361922 | Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 1807 | ![]() | 2 |
9809361923 | James Madison | 1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812; First Protective Tariff | ![]() | 3 |
9809361924 | James Monroe | 1817-1825 Democratic-Republican Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine | ![]() | 4 |
9809361925 | John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations" | ![]() | 5 |
9809361926 | Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 Democrat Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act | ![]() | 6 |
9809361927 | Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 Democrat Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 1837 | ![]() | 7 |
9809361928 | William Henry Harrison | 1841 Whig "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President | ![]() | 8 |
9809361929 | John Tyler | 1841-1845 Whig "His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty | ![]() | 9 |
9809361930 | James Polk | 1845-1849 Democrat Texas annexation; Mexican War | ![]() | 10 |
9809361931 | Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 Whig Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist | ![]() | 11 |
9809361932 | Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 Whig Compromise of 1850 | ![]() | 12 |
9809361933 | Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 Democrat Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase | ![]() | 13 |
9809361934 | James Buchanan | 1857-1861 Democrat Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid | ![]() | 14 |
9809361935 | Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 Republican Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation | ![]() | 15 |
9809361936 | Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 Democrat 13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment | ![]() | 16 |
9809361937 | Ulysses Grant | 1869-1877 Republican 15th amendment; Panic of 1873 | ![]() | 17 |
9809361938 | Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 Republican Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes | ![]() | 18 |
9809361939 | James Garfield | 1881, Republican Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office | ![]() | 19 |
9809361940 | Chester Arthur | 1881-1885 Republican Standard Oil trust created Edison lights up New York City | ![]() | 20 |
9809361941 | Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike | ![]() | 21 |
9809361942 | Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 Republican Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier | ![]() | 22 |
9809361943 | William McKinley | 1897-1901 Republican Spanish-American War; Open Door policy | ![]() | 23 |
9809361944 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 Republican Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy | ![]() | 24 |
9809361945 | William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 Republican Dollar diplomacy NAACP founded | ![]() | 25 |
9809361946 | Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 Democrat WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare | ![]() | 26 |
9809361947 | Warren Harding | 1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition | ![]() | 27 |
9809361948 | Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 Republican Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative | ![]() | 28 |
9809361949 | Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 Republican "American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff | ![]() | 29 |
9809361950 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933-1945 Democrat New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats" | ![]() | 30 |
9809361951 | Harry Truman | 1945-1953 Democrat A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations | ![]() | 31 |
9809361952 | Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 Republican Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex | ![]() | 32 |
9809361953 | John Kennedy | 1961-1963 Democrat Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps | ![]() | 33 |
9809361954 | Lyndon Johnson | 1963-1969 Democrat Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society | ![]() | 34 |
9809361955 | Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 Republican Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate | ![]() | 35 |
9809361956 | Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 Republican Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis | ![]() | 36 |
9809361957 | Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 Democrat stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords | ![]() | 37 |
9809361958 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 Republican Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal | ![]() | 38 |
9809361959 | George H. W. Bush | 1989-1993 Republican Persian Gulf War | ![]() | 39 |
9809361960 | Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 Democrat NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment | ![]() | 40 |
9809361961 | George W. Bush | 2001-2008 Republican War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind" | ![]() | 41 |
9809361962 | Barack Obama | 2008-2017 Democrat Affordable Care Act | ![]() | 42 |
9809361963 | Donald Trump | 2017-? Republican "Make America Great Again" | ![]() | 43 |