APUSH sem 1 president

George washington

1789 - 1797

No Party Affiliation

- Creates Executive Departments and consults with the Department secretaries as members of his cabinet.
- Approves of the Financial Plan of Hamilton
- Introduces Neutrality as Foreign Policy
- Puts down the Whiskey Rebellion
- Opens up settlement in the Northwest Territory by defeating the Indians in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and makes peace with the tribes and the in the Treaty of Greenville
- Maintained peace with Great Britain in securing the Jay Treaty
- Secured navigation rights down the Mississippi River with the Pinckney Treaty

John Adams

1797 - 1801

Federalist

- Builds a navy
- XYZ Affair
- Quasi War with France
- Alien Sedition Acts
- Midnight Judges

Thomas Jefferson

1801 - 1809

Democratic-Republican

- Louisiana Purchase
- Unsuccessfully attempts to impeach Justices
- Uses military force to stop piracy in Mediterranean
- Lewis and Clark Expedition

James Madison

1809 - 1817

Democratic-Republican

- Macon's Bill #2
- Did not renew the charter of the Bank of the US
- War of 1812
- Led troops in the Battle of Bladensburg
- Chartered the Second Bank of the US after the war
- Treaty of Ghant

James Monroe

1817 - 1825

Democratic-Republican

- Adams-Oniz (Trans continental) Treaty
- Panic of 1819
- Monroe Doctrine

John Quincy Adams

1825 - 1829

"National Republican"

- Appoints Henry Clay Secretary of State and accused for "corrupt bargain"
- Signed the Tariff of Abomination

Andrew Jackson

Democratic

- Spoils System
- Peggy Eaton Affair nearly destroys his presidency
- Uses the veto more than all presidents before him combined
- Casts out John Calhoun and plan to make an example of him with the Force Bill
- Creates Wild Cat Banks in his war with the Bank
- Maysville Road Veto
- Removal of the Georgia Cherokees in what is called the "Trail of Tears"

Martin Van Bruen

Democratic

- Creates the Independent Treasury
- Panic of 1837
- Aroostook War

William Henry Harrison

1841

Whig

- Repeals the Independent Treasury Act

John Tyler

Whig

-Vetoes the Third Bank of the United States Bills
- so alienates himself with the Whigs he is cast out of the Party. He agreed more with Calhoun than Clay.
- Secretary of State Webster is the only member of the cabinet to not resign. Webster-Ashburton Treaty resolves the border dispute with Canada.
- Texas comes into the Union as the 29th state

James Polk

- Lowers the Tariff
- Resolves Oregon Territory with the British at the 49 parallel
- Mexican Ameerican War
- Mexican Cession, the largest territorial acquisition in US history, brings all the land west of Texas out to California into the Union
- Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo
- The Gold Rush
- Reintroduces the Independent Treasury

Zachary Taylor

- indicates he will stop secession with military force following the Nashville Convention
- does not reveal his position on the Omnibus Bill (Compromise) of 1850

Millard Fillmore

Whig

- Signs the Compromise of 1850
- Perry opens trade with Japan
- Treaty of Kanagawa

Franklin Pierce

Democratic

- Gadsden Purchase
- Ostend Manifesto
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan

Democratic

- Favors the Lecompton Constitution
- Dred Scott Decision
- Does nothing to stop states from seceding following the election of Lincoln
(- Territorial Expansion, Jefferson-Louis)

Abraham Lincoln

Republican

- Does not allow Southern States to be in armed insurrection against the US
- Homestead Act
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Takes over Telegraph and railroads for military purposes
- Exparte Milligan
- Freedman's Bureau

Andrew Johnson

Democratic

- Vetoes the Civil Rights Bill and first Reconstruction Act
- 14th Amendment is ratified
- Authorizes the purchase of Alaska
- Military Reconstruction (over his veto)
- impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act; acquitted

Ulyssses Simpson Grant

Republican

- Transcontinental Railroad is completed
- 15th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
- Force Acts to stop lawlessness with military acting as a police force
- Panic of 1837
- Government scandals: Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring and Belknap Scandal