Presidents

Presidents

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    George Washinton

    -Whiskey Rebellion
    -Indian’s life stlye changed
    -Judiciary Act of 1789-Bill of Rights-Dem. – Rep. parties formed -Est. of the Bank of U.S.-Hamilton’s financial plan
    -Foreign debt paid off-Pickney’s treaty New Orelans-Treaty of Greenville, 1795-Neutrality Act
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    John Adams

    -Sons of Liberty
    -Alien and Sedition Act-Declarartion of rights and Grievances-Federalist-Anit-Federalists-Stamp act
    -XYZ affairs-Jay Treaty
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    Thomas Jefferson

    -Ohio joins Union-Hamiton is fatally wounded
    -Louisiana Territory Act-Twelfth Amendment-Enabling Act-ban on slave trade-Louisiana Purchase
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    James Madison

    -Louisiana is admitted to the nation as the eighteenth state of the Union. -The House refuses to enlarge the Navy
    -Congress authorizes $12,000 to refurbish the white House
    -Nonintercourse with Britain.
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    James Monroe

    -Mississippi becomes the twentieth state in the Union.
    -Alabama becomes the twenty-second state of the Union.
    -Illinois is admitted as the twenty-first state of the Union.
    -Doctri
    -The Panic of 1819
    -The Transcontinental Treaty, also known as the Adams-Onis treaty, is resolved in February after the conclusion of negotiations dating back to July 1818. The treaty transfers the Floridas from Spain to the United States for $5 million, and advances the U.S. border across Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
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    John Quincy Adams

    -XYZ affairs
    -Alien and Sedition acts
    -Adams calls the first special session of Congress to debate the mounting crisis in French-American relations. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the American envoy in France, had left France after being insulted by the French foreign minister.
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    Andrew Jackson

    -spoils system
    -the Second Bank of the United States
    -Indian Removal Act
    -Peggy Eaton Affair
    -Nullification Proclamation
    -terminate the national debt
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    Martin Van Buren

    Economic Issues:
    -Economic Panic of 1837
    Domestic Issues:
    -New Territories
    Social Issues:
    -Native Americans
    -Slavery
    Foreign issues:
    -borders between New York and Canada and Maine and Canada.
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    Henry Harrison

    Domestic Issues:
    -Slavery
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    John Tyler

    Domestic Issues:
    -Annexation of Texas
    -Constitutional Powers
    Foreign Policy issiues:
    -Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842
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    James K. Polk

    Domestic Issues:
    -Independent Treasury Act of 1846: established independent treasury deposit offices separate from private or state banks to receive all government funds.
    -Westward Expansion
    -Wilmot Proviso: Slavery in the New Territories
    Foreign Policy Issues:
    -High Tariffs
    -Mexican War
    -Treaty of New Granada
    Social Issues:
    - Slavery
    Economic Issues:
    -Walker Tariff of 1846: protective tariff