Presidents

1

Washington

• first president

  • proclamation of neutrality

2

John Adams

• XYZ Affair

3

Jefferson

• Louisiana purchase

4

Madison

• war of 1812

5

Monroe

• Monroe Doctrine

6

J. Q. Adams

• A corrupt bargain

7

Jackson

• south Carolina revolt

8

Van Buren

• Panic of 1837

9

W. H. Harrison

• Gave long speech and died

10

Tyler

• annexed Texas

11

Polk

• Manifest Destiny

12

Zachary Taylor

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

13

Millard Fillmore

• Compromise of 1850

14

Pierce

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

15

Buchanon

• Dred Scott

• Harpers Ferry

16

Lincoln

17

Andrew Johnson

• reconstructions

18

Grant

• large amounts of corruption

  • Whiskey Ring

19

Rutherford B. Hayes

• end of Reconstruction

• Corrupt Bargain to get into office

20

James A. Garfield

• assassinated

  • inspired Pendleton Act

21

Chester Arthur

• passed Pendleton Act

• reduce corruption

22

Grover Cleveland

• first president to serve two inconsecutive terms

• broke up Pullman Strike

23

Benjamin Harrison

• high tariffs

24

Cleveland

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Panic of 1893

25

McKinley

• Spanish American War

• Open Door Policy

26

Theodore Roosevelt

• Square Deal

• Big Stick policy

• Trust busting

27

Taft

• Dollar Diplomacy

28

Woodrow Wilson

• World War I

• League of Nations

• Federal Reserve Act

• Clayton Antitrust Act

29

Warren G. Harding

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Return to normalcy

30

Calvin Coolidge

• big business policies, laissez faire

31

Herbert Hoover

• Great Depression

• Rugged individualism

32

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• New Deal

• WWII

• 4 terms

33

Truman

• Nuclear bombings

• Post-war recovery

  • Truman Doctrine

• Fair Deal

34

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Cold War

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

• Dynamic Conservatism

• Interstate Highway System

35

John F. Kennedy

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

36

Lyndon B. Johnson

• Civil Rights Movement

• Great Society

• Vietnam escalation

37

Richard Nixon

• Vietnamization

• Watergate

38

Gerald Ford

• Watergate aftermath

• Pardon of Nixon

39

Jimmy Carter

• Energy crisis

• Camp David Accords

• Iran hostage crisis

40

Ronald Reagan

• end of Cold War

• first woman on SCOTUS

41

George H.W. Bush

• Gulf War

• 1990 Recession

42

Bill Clinton

• NAFTA

• Welfare Reform

43

George W. Bush

• War on Terror

• 2008 Financial Crisis

44

Barack Obama

• Affordable Care Act

45

Donald Trump

• impeached twice

• America First

• Jobs Act

46

Joe Biden

• COVID-19 pandemic response

47

Donald Trump

• “Gulf of America”

• illegal deportations