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George Washington / Pinckney’s Treaty
was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
John Adams / Alien & Sedition Acts Passed
a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress that restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press. -
John Adams / Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison established the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional -
James Madison / War of 1812
Conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right, though it was separate -
James Monroe / Adams-Onis Treaty
was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. -
Abraham Lincoln / Reconstruction
period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments. -
Chester A. Arthur / Chinese Exclusion Act
was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Grover Cleveland / Hawaiian Annexation
last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. -
William McKinley / Gold Standard Act Passed
was passed to prevent the country from printing too much money and running out of gold -
Theodore Roosevelt / Food and Drug Act Passed
The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
William Howard Taft / Dollar diplomacy
was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Woodrow Wilson / Zimmerman TImeline
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
Woodrow Wilson / 14 points
statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress -
Woodrow Wilson / 19th Amendment Passed
19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Warren G. Harding / Washington Naval Conference
the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington, D.C. for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt / New Deal
a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations, It responded to needs for relief, reform and recovery from the Great Depression. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt / The Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Dwight D. Einsenhower / New Look Policy
Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources. -
John F. Kennedy / Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
John F Kennedy / Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Lyndon B. Johnson / Civil Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Lyndon B. Johnson / Tet Offensive
a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon / EPA Created
Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection -
Richard Nixon / Détente
(French word meaning release from tension) it improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, and took decisive form when President Richard Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party -
Jimmy Carter / Iran Hostage Crisis
a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States of America. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days -
Ronald Reagan / Moscow Olympics Boycott
By the United States to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union, which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics, and other countries would later boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. -
Ronald Reagan / Fall of the Berlin Wall
as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Bill Clinton / NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America -
Bill Clinton / Brady Handgun Bill Passed
Violence Prevention Act often referred to as the Brady Act or the Brady Bill, is an Act of the United States Congress that mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States
