U.S. History Presidents

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    George Washington Presidency

    Political Party: N/A
    Significant Event: policy of neutrality, Jay Treaty, Whiskey Rebellion
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    John Adams Presidency

    Political Party: Federalist Party
    Significant Event: XYZ Affair, kept U.S. out of war with France
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    Thomas Jefferson Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
    Significant Event: Louisiana Purchase, Louis and Clark Expeditions
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    James Madison Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
    Significant Event: War of 1812
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    James Monroe Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Republican Party
    Significant Event: Monroe Doctrine
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    Calvin Coolidge

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Dawes Plan
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    John Quincy Adams Presidency

    Political Party: Whig Party
    Significant Event: Completion of Erie Canal/Tariff of Abomination
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    Andrew Jackson Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: Signing of the Indian Removal Act, Peggy Eaton Affair
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    Martin Van Buren Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: Trail of Tears, Panic of 1837
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    William Henry Harrison Presidency

    Political Party: Whig Party
    Significant Event: First president to die in office
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    John Tyler Presidency

    Political Party: Whig Party
    Significant Event: joint resolution to annex Texas was signed, Tariff bill
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    James Knox Polk Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: acquisition of Oregon Territory, California, and New Mexico Territory
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    Zachary Taylor Presidency

    Political Party: Whig Party
    Significant event: California and New Mexico statehood attempts
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    Millard Fillmore Presidency

    Political Party: Whig Party
    Significant event: Compromise of 1850
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    Franklin Pierce Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant event: Gadson Purchase, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas and John Brown
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    James Buchanan Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: Dred Scott Decision, South Carolina along with 10 states secede
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    Abraham Lincoln Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant event: the Civil War
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    Andrew Johnson Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant event: vetoes Freedman's Bureau + the Civil Rights Act, purchase of Alaska, 14th Amendment
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    Ulysses S. Grant Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Events: 15th Amendment, Panic of 1873, Civil Rights act of 1875
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    Rutherford B. Hayes Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Civil Service Reform
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    James A. Garfield Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: his death leads to Pendleton Act
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    Chester Arthur Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Civil Service Reform Act/Pendleton Act
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    Grover Cleveland Presidency

    Political Party: National Democratic Party
    Significant event: Presidential Succession Act, Chinese Exclusion Act
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    Benjamin Harrison Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: McKinley Tariff, Sherman Antitrust Act
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    Grover Cleveland Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant event: Pullman Railway strikes, Republic of Hawaii is recognized
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    William McKinley Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
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    Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant event: Roosevelt Corollary
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    William Howard Taft Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: 16th Amendment ratified
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    Woodrow Wilson Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: World War I
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    Calvin Coolidge Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Dawes Plan
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    Herbert Hoover Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Wall Street stock market Crash/the Great Depression
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    Franklin Roosevelt Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: World War II
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    Harry Truman Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: Korean War
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    Dwight Eisenhower Presidency

    Political Party: Republican
    Significant Event: the Civil Rights movement/Little Rock
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    John F. Kennedy Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: the Cold War
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    Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Vietnam War (Tonkin Gulf Resolution)
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    Richard Nixon Presidency

    Political Party: Republican
    Significant Event: Watergate Scandal/26th amendment
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    Gerald Ford Presidency

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974
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    Jimmy Carter Presidency

    Political Party: Democratic Party
    Significant Event: The Camp David Accords
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    Ronald Reagan

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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    George H. W. Bush

    Political Party: Republican Party
    Significant Event: Gulf War