Presidents

  • George Washington

    No Party Affiliation
    Judiciary Act
    Whiskey Rebellion
    French Revolution
  • John Adams

    Party: Federalists
    Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions
    Alien and Sedition Acts
    XYZ Affair
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Party: Democratic Republican
    Marbury v Madison
    Embargo Act
    Louisiana Purchase
  • James Madison

    Party: Jeffersonian Republican
    Hartford Convention
    War of 1812
  • James Monroe

    Party: National Republican
    Missouri Compromise
    American System by Henry Clay
    Adams-Onis Treaty (FL)
  • John Q Adams

    Party: National Republican
    Erie Canal
    Tariff of Abominations
  • Andrew Jackson

    Party: Democratic Republican
    2nd Bank of the United States
    Spoils system
    Indian Removal Act
    Whig Party formed
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren
    Panic of 1837
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison
    Dead after 30 days in office
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler
    Opposed Whigs
    Annexed Texas
  • James Polk

    James Polk
    Mexican American War
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor
    Gold Rush
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore
    Compromise of 1850
    Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce
    Kansas Nebraska Act
    Annex of Hawaii in 1854
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan
    Dred Scott
    John Brown's Raid
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Civil War
    Emancipation Proclamation
    Homestead Act
  • Andrew Johnson

    Reconstruction
    13,14,15 Amendments
    Alaska Purchase
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant
    Transcontinental RR
    Whiskey Ring
    Tweed Ring
    Panic 1873
  • Rutherford B Hayes

    End of Reconstruction
  • James Garfield

    James Garfield
    Assassination leads to Pendleton Act
  • Chester Arthur

    Chester Arthur
    Pendleton Act
    Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland
    Haymarket Riot
    Interstate Commerce Act
  • Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison
    Sherman Anti-trust Act
    McKinley Tariff Act
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland
    Pullman Strike
    American Federation of Labor
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley
    Remember the Maine- Spanish American War
    Yellow Journalism
    First Modern election with Carnegie and Morgan paying for election
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Square Deal
    Trust Busting
    FDA
    Meat Inspection Act
    Great White Fleet
    Panama Canal
  • William Taft

    William Taft
    New Nationalism
    16th Amendment- Income Tax
    Dollar Diplomacy
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Wins because of split with Republicans and Bull Moose Party
    Federal Reserve Act
    17,8,19 amendments
    WWI
    14 points
  • Warren G Harding

    Warren G Harding
    Teapot Dome Scandal
    Immigration Quotas
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge
    Silent to big business
    Dawes Plan
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover
    Great Depression starts
    Bull Market
    Hoovervilles
    Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930
  • Franklin D Roosevelt

    Franklin D Roosevelt
    New Deal
    World War 2
    Japanese Internment (Executive Order 9066)
    Yalta Conference
  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
    Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    V-E Day
    V-J Day
    Berlin Airlift
    Truman Doctrine
    Korean War
  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower
    Interstate system
    22nd amendment (anti third term amendment)
    McCarthyism
    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Brown v Board
    Little Rock Nine
    Suez Crisis
    U2 spy plane
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    New Frontier
    Baker v Carr 1962
    Est. Peace Corp
    Bay of Pigs
    Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)

    Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
    Great Society
    Civil Rights Act 64 and 68
    Voting Rights Act
    Immigration Act
    Vietnam War escalation
    Tet Offensive
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Moon landing
    est Environmental Protection Agency
    26th amendment (18 yr old vote)
    Kent State
    Watergate
    Detente- relaxed tension with USSR
    visit to China
  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford
    pardoned Nixon
    OPEC
    Helsinki Accords
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    3 mile island incident
    energy crisis
    stagflation
    Iran Hostage Crisis
    Camp David Accords
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    Sandra Day O'Connor (1st women in Supreme Court)
    Iran Contra Scandal
    Reaganomics
    Reagan Doctrine- support non communist nations in Afghanistan, Honduras, Nicaragua, Granada, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
    Star Wars program.
  • George Bush

    George Bush
    Operation Desert Storm
  • William "Bill" Clinton

    William "Bill" Clinton
    Oklahoma City Bombing
    Federal Surplus
    Whitewater Scandal
    World Trade Center bombing (basement)
    NAFTA
  • George W Bush

    George W Bush
    No Child Left Behind
    Hurricane Katrina
    9/11
    Patriot Act
  • President Obama

    President Obama
    Great Recession
    Affordable Care Act
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump
    to be determined