Presidents - Events (2)

Rutherford B. Hayes

• Bland-Allison Act (1878)

• Troops withdrawn from the South (1877)

James A. Garfield

• Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau

Chester A. Arthur

• Pendleton Act (1883)

Grover Cleveland

• Knights of Labor (1886)

• Haymarket Riot (1886)

• Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

• Washburn v. Illinois (1886)

Benjamin Harrison

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

• Populist Party Platform (1892)

• North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington become states (1889)

• Idaho and Wyoming become states (1890)

• McKinley Tariff (1890)

• Sherman Act (1890)

Grover Cleveland (2nd term)

• Panic of 1893

• Hawaiian incident (1893)

• Venezuelan Boundary Affair (1895)

• Pullman Strike (1894)

• American Federation of Labor

• Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)

William McKinley

• New Imperialism

• Spanish-American War (1898 - 1899)

• Open Door Policy (1899)

• Boxer Rebellion (1900)

• McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz (1901)

Theodore Roosevelt

• Panama Canal (1903 - 1914)

• “Square Deal”

• Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)

• Portsmouth Treaty (1905)

• Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan (1904)

• Hague Conference (1899 and 1907)

• Hepburn Act (1906)

• Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, “muckrakers” (1906)

• Political reforms of the Roosevelt Era

• Trust-busting

• Coal Strike

• Conservation

• Venezuelan Debt Controversy (1902)

• Dominican Republic Crisis (1902)

• Algerian Conference over Morocco (1906)

William Howard Taft

• Paine-Aldrich Tariff (1909)

• Pinchot-Ballinger controversy (1909)

• “Dollar Diplomacy”

Woodrow Wilson

• Underwood Tariff (1913)

• 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments

• Glass-Owens Bill/Federal Reserve Act (1913)

• Federal Trade Commission (1914)

• Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico

• The Lusitania (1915)

• “Fourteen Points (1917)

• Treaty of Versailles (1919 - 1920)

• “New Freedom”

Warren G. Harding

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Washington Conference (1921 - 1922)

• Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)

Calvin Coolidge

• Kellogg-Briand Pact (198)

Herbert Hoover

• National Origins Immigration Act (1929)

• Panic and Depression

• Stock Market Crash (1929)

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• New Deal

• Bureaucracies (“alphabet soup”)

• World War II

• Labor Reforms

Harry S. Truman

• WWII ends

• atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Taft-Harley Act (1947)

• Truman Doctrine (1947)

• Marshall Plan (1947)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO (1949)
  Korean War (1950 - 1953)

• “Fair Deal”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 22nd Amendment

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• the “race for space”

• Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959)

John F. Kennedy

• Alliance for Progress

• Baker v. Carr (1962)

• Peace Corps

• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

• “New Frontier”

• Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

• Assassinated in Dallas (Texas) by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

Lyndon B. Johnson

• The “Cold War”

• Cuban Policy

• Income tax cut

• Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)

• Civil Rights Act (1964)

• Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Anti-Poverty Act (1964)

• Elementary and Secondary education reform

• Medicare

• “Great Society”

Richard M. Nixon

• “Imperial Presidency”

• Landing on the moon (1969)

• Warren Burger, Chief Justice (1969)

• Woodstock (1969)

• Environmental Protection Agency, EPA (1970)

• 16th Amendment (1971)

• Visit to China (1972)

• Visit to Russia (1972)

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, SALT (1972)

• Kissinger and “shuttle diplomacy” (1973 - 1975)

• Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1973)

• Allende regime in Chile overthrown with the help of the CIA (1973)

• Agnew resigns (1973)

• Nixon resigns (1974)

• Pentagon Papers (1971)

Gerald Ford

• Pardons Nixon

• OPEC crisis (1974)

Jimmy Carter

• Panama Canal Treaty signed (1977)

• Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan

• Three-Mile Incident (1979)

• Egypt and Israel peace treaty, Sadat and Begin win Nobel Prize (1979)

• Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)

• Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets (1979)

• “Stagflation”

• Boycott of Olypmics in Moscow to protest invasion of Afghanistan

Ronald Reagan

• Hostages returned

• Falkland Islands Crisis (1982)

• 1500 Marines sent to Beirut (1983)

• Marines withdrawn in (1984)

• Grenada (1983)

• Nicaragua (1984)

• Sandra Day O’Connor

• “Supply-side economics”

• Iran-Contra Hearings (1987)

George Bush

• Savings and Loan Scandal (1990)

• Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany

• Invasion of Panama (1990)

• Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm/Gulf War (1992)

Bill Clinton

• North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA (1993)

• Proposes a national health care system (1993)

• Participates in air strikes in Bosnia (1994)

• Participates in air strikes in Iraq

• Sex scandal (1998)

• Participates in air strikes on Serbia (1999)

George W. Bush

• Disputed election decided by the Supreme Court

• “Compassionate Conservative”

• War on Terrorism

• Sends U.S. troops to topple the Taliban government of Afghanistan

• Invasion of Iraq

• Creates the Cabinet Level Department of Homeland Security (2002)

• Advocates tax cuts as a stimulant to a slow post-9/11 economy

• “Jobless” economic recovery

Barack Obama

• Affordable Care Act

• Death of Osama Bin Laden

Donald Trump

• Coronavirus Pandemic

• Mob Attacks U.S. Capitol

Joe Biden

• Afghanistan withdrawal

• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization