APUSH - APRIL BREAK PRESIDENTS

Washington & Adams

Critical period; getting the country going politically and economically

Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, & Adams

Demo-Repubs in name, but Federalists in fact; LA Purchase, War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine

Jackson & Van Buren

Presidents for “the common man”; Indian Removal; tried to swing the country back to Jeffersonian ideals

Lincoln, Johnson, & Grant

Civil War & Reconstruction Presidents

T. Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson

Progressive Presidents

Harding, Coolidge, & Hoover

Business- Oriented; Decreased regulations, boom time — until the crash in 1929

FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, & Johnson

New Dealers; Economic prosperity (except for the Depression years), world leadership; Civil Rights Movement; Great Society

Nixon, Ford, & Carter

1972 on → malaise, still New Deal-ish, “things giving way”

Reagan & H. W. Bush

Wholesale rejection of New Deal; hardcore Cold Warriors; Ended the Cold War

Clinton

Oversaw creation of govt. economic surplus due to the “dotcom bubble”; welfare reform; criminal justice crackdown; Personal Scandal

G. W. Bush

9/11; War on Terror; Wars in Afganistan and Iraq

Obama

Recovery from Great Recession; Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Trump

Anti-immigration, anti-Muslim; Withdrawl from world leadership; Covid-19 Pandemic