The Executive Branch

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794)
    Pickney's Treaty (1795)
  • John Adams

    John Adams
    Tariff of Abominations (1828)
    XYZ Affair (1790's)
    Marbuy v. Madison (1803)
    Treaty of Tripoli (1796)
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Louisiana Purchase (1803)
  • James Madison

    James Madison
    War of 1812
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe
    Missouri Compromise (1820)
    Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
    Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren
    Panics of 1837 & 1839
  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk
    Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce
    Gadsden Purchase (1853)
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Civil War (1861-1865)
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley
    Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)
    Hawaiian Annexation (1898)
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Big Stick Diplomacy (1901)
    Square Deal (1901)
    Food and Drug Act Passed (1906)
  • William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft
    Dollar Diplomacy (1909)
  • Woodrow Wilison

    Woodrow Wilison
    Federal Reserve Act (1913)
    Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
    19th Amendment Passed (1920)
    14 Points (1918)
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge
    Dawes Plan (1924)
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover
    Smoot Hawley Tariff (1930)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Atlantic Charter (1941)
    New Deal (1933)
  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
    Marshall Plan (1948)
    Fair Deal (1949)
    Potsdam Conference (1945)
    Korean War Begins (1950)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    SEATO (1954)
    Brown v. Board of Education (1952-1954)
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    Peace Corp (1961)
    Boy of Pigs Invasion (1961)
    Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson
    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
    Tet Offensive (1968)
    Civil Rights Act of 1965
    Great Society (1964)
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    SALT (1969)
    Watergate (1972-1974)
    Detente (1967-1979)
    EPA Created (1970)
    Fall of Saigon (1975)
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    Camp David Accords (1978)
    Moscow Olympics Boycott (1980)
    Iran Hostage Crisis (1971-1981)
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)
  • George H.W. Bush

    George H.W. Bush
    Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
    Fall of the Berlin Wall (1991)
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    NAFTA (1994)
    Brady Handgun Bill (1994)
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    9/11 (2001)
    Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act (2006)
    Oslo Accords (2005)
    Patriot Act Passed (2001)
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    Affordable Healthcare Act (2009)