us presidents (lincoln-trump)

abraham lincoln

republican

- civil war (1861-1865)

- emancipation proclamation (1863)

- homestead act (1862)

- morill act (1862)

- assassinated (april 15, 1865)

andrew johnson

republican

- 13th amendment (1865)

- 14th amendment (1868)

- reconstruction act (1867)

- tenure of office act (1867)

- impeachment trial (1868)

- kkk

- black codes (south)

ulysses s. grant

republican

- 15th amendment (1870)

- 1st transcontinental railroad (1869)

- tweed ring

- panic of 1873

- credit mobilier

- whiskey ring

rutherford b. hayes

republican

- bland-allison act (1878) —> free coinage of silver

- troops withdrawn from south (1877)

james a. garfield

republican

- assassinated by c. julius guiteau

chester a. arthur

republican

- pendleton act (1883) —> civil service commission

grover cleveland

democrat

- knights of labor (1886)

- haymarket riot (1886)

- interstate commerce act (1887)

- washburn v. illinois (1886)

benjamin harrison

republican

- sherman anti-trust act (1890)

- populist party platform (1892)

- north dakota, south dakota, montana, washington = states (1889)

- idaho & wyoming = states (1890)

- mckinley tariff (1890)

- sherman act (1890)

grover cleveland

democrat

- panic of 1893

- hawaiian incident (1893)

- venezuelan boundary affair (1895)

- pullman strike (1894)

- american federation of labor

- wilson-gorman tariff (1894)

william mckinley

republican

- new imperialism

- spanish-american war (1898-1899)

- open door policy (1899)

- boxer rebellion (1900)

- assassinated by leon czolgosz (1901)

theodore roosevelt

republican

- panama canal (1903-1914)

- "square deal"

- roosevelt corollary (1904)

- portsmouth treaty (1905)

- gentleman's agreement w/ japan (1904)

- hague conferences (1899 & 1907)

- hepburn act (1906)

- pure food & drug act, meat inspection, muckrakers (1906)

- political reforms & trust-busting

- coal strike

- conservation

- venezuelan debt controversy (1902)

- dominican republic crisis (1902)

- algerian conference over morocco (1906)

william howard taft

republican

- paine-aldrich tariff (1909)

- pinchot-ballinger controversy (1909)

- "dollar diplomacy"

woodrow wilson

democrat

- underwood tariff (1913)

- 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th amendments

- glass-owen bill / federal reserve act (1913)

- federal trade commission (1914)

- clayton anti-trust act (1914)

- troops to nicaragua, dominican republic, haiti, virgin islands, mexico

- the lusitania (1915)

- 14 points (1917)

- treaty of versailles (1919-1920)

- "new freedom"

warren g. harding

republican ("dark horse")

- teapot dome

- washington conference (1921-1922)

- fordney-mccumber tariff (1922)

calvin coolidge

republican

- kellogg-briand pact (1928)

herbert hoover

republican

- national origins immigration act (1929)

- panic & depression

- stock market crash (1929)

- hawley-smoot tariff (1930)

franklin d. roosevelt

democrat

- new deal

- "alphabet soup" bureaucracies

- ww2

- labor reforms

harry s. truman

democrat

- ww2 ends —> atomic bombs on hiroshima & nagasaki

- taft-harley act (1947)

- truman doctrine (1947)

- marshall plan (1947)

- nato (1949)

- korean war (1950-1953)

- "fair deal"

dwight d. eisenhower

republican

- 22nd amendment

- brown v. board

- seato

- suez crisis (1956)

- eisenhower doctrine

- "space race"

- alaska & hawaii = states (1959)

john f. kennedy

democrat

- alliance for progress

- baker v. carr (1962)

- peace corps

- cuban missile crisis (1962)

- "new frontier"

- nuclear test-ban treaty

- assassinated by lee harvey oswald (1963)

lyndon b. johnson

democrat

- cold war

- cuban policy

- income tax cut

- wesberry v. sanders (1964)

- civil rights act (1964)

- voting rights act (1965)

- anti-poverty act (1964)

- elementary & secondary education reform

- medicare & medicaid

- "great society"

richard nixon

republican

- "imperial presidency"

- landing on the moon (1969)

- warren burger court (1969)

- woodstock (1969)

- environmental protection agency (1970)

- 16th amendment (1971)

- visit to china & russia (1972)

- strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT)

- kissinger & "shuttle diplomacy" (1973-1975)

- wounded knee, south dakota (1973)

- allende regime in chile overthrown w/ help of CIA (1973)

- agnew resigns (1973)

- nixon resigns (1974)

- pentagon papers (1971) —> NYT publishes

gerald ford

republican

- pardons nixon

- OPEC crisis (1974)

jimmy carter

democrat

- panama canal treaty (1977)

- est. diplomatic relations w/ china; ended recognition of taiwan

- three-mile island incident (1979)

- egypt & israel peace treaty; sadat & begin nobel prize (1979)

- iran hostage crisis (1979)

- seizure of afghanistan by soviets

- "stagflation"

- boycott of olympics in moscow (protest invasion of afghanistan)

ronald reagan

republican

- hostages returned

- falkland islands crisis (1982)

- 1500 marines sent to beirut (1983)

- grenada (1983)

- nicaragua (1984)

- sandra day o'connor = 1st woman in supreme court

- "supply-side economics" (reaganomics)

- iran-contra hearings (1987)

george bush

republican

- savings & loan scandal (1990)

- berlin wall comes down

- invasion of panama (1990)

- operation desert shield & desert storm (gulf war)

bill clinton

democrat

- north american free trade agreement (1993)

- proposes 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

republican

- disputed election decided by supreme court

- "compassionate conservative"

- war on terrorism

- us troops topple taliban government of afghanistan

- invasion of iraq

- cabinet level department of homeland security (2002)

- tax cuts to stimulate post-9/11 economy

- "jobless" economic recovery

barack obama

democrat

donald trump

republican

joe biden

democrat

donald trump

republican

- tariffs