APUSH Presidents

George Washington

• Judiciary Act

• Hamilton’s Financial Parties (National bank, funding at pat, assumption of state debt, high tariffs)

• Whiskey Rebellion

• proclamation of Neutrality

• Farewell Address (no parties or permanent alliances)

• Jays and Pinckney treaty

John Adams

• Federalist

• x,y,z affair

• Alien and Sedition Acts —> Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

• Naturalization Act (first rules for granting US citizenship) (free white people)

Thomas Jefferson

• dem-rep party

• peaceful revolution of 1800

• Marbury v Madison (Judicial review)

• Louisiana Purchase (goes against his beliefs)

• Chesapeake and Leopard Affair (incident between Britain and US) (refused to allow British on board to look for deserters)

• embargo act (attempt to stop impressment)

James Madison

• dem-rep party (strict interpretation, no national bank)

• non-intercourse act, macons bill #2

• war of 1812

• Battle of Tippecanoe

• Hartford convention

• 2nd charter for National Bank

James Monroe

• era of Good Feelings

• McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth, Gibbons v. Ogden

• Rush Bagot

• panic of 1819

• American System

• acquisition of Florida

• Missouri Compromise

• Monroe Doctrine

• Corrupt Bargain

John Quincy Adams

• whigs

• tariff of abominations

Andrew Jackson

• democrat

• Jacksonian Democracy (white male suffrage)

• 2 party system

• spoils system

• peggy eaton affair

• indian removal act

• tariffs —> panic of 1837

• nullification crisis

• second BUS —> pet banks

• specie circular

Martin Van Buren

• democrat