APUSH Presidents Final

George Washington

George Washington

Proved the Constitution through the Whiskey Rebellion; signed and approved the First Bank of the U.S; Judiciary Act of 1789; Tariff of 1789; Jay Treaty; Pinckney Treaty; Farewell Address (Avoiding political parties and permanent alliance); Leaned toward Federalists

John Adams

The only Federalist President; had issues with France in the XYZ Affair; made political enemies with the Alien and Sedition Acts resulting in the Virgina and Kentucky Resolutions; Midnight Judges

Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican; Louisiana Purchase; love yeoman farmers, but not Barbary Pirates; had to deal witht he Federalist Supreme Court/John Marshall which gave us Marbury v. Madison and judicial review; Embargo Act of 1807 and Non-Intercourse act of 1809

James Madison

Democratic-Republican; impressment, Macon's Bill No.2; War Hawks made deal with the War of 1812, but grew nationalism

James Monroe

Democratic-Republican; Era of Good Feelings; Missouri Compromise; Monroe Doctrine; got Florida from Spain

John Quincy Adams

Democratic-Republican, but a National Republican by heart; Election of 1824 and Corrupt Bargain against Andrew Jackson; Tariff of Abominations

Andrew Jackson

Democrat; love states' rights; inspired the common man and universal male suffrage; Trial of Tears; hated the BUS and got us into the Panic of 1837 through Specie Circular and pet banks; had to deal with the Tariff of Abominations and the Nullification Crisis against John C. Calhoun

Martin Van Buren

Democrat; suffered from the Panic of 1837 and depression (thanks to Jackson)

William Henry Harrison

First Whig; dead

John Tyler

Whig, but act like a Democrat; approved the Webster Ashburton Treaty to cool off Britain on northern border

James K. Polk

Democrat; love Manifest Destiny and expansion; lobbied for Texas annexation; got Oregon and defeated Mexico in the Mexican American War to get Mexican Secession

Zachary Talyor

Whig; owned slaves; died in office

Millard Fillmore

Whig; the Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce

Democrat; made a mess of things with sectionalism and slavery with the Gadsden Purchase; Ostend Manifesto; Kansas-Nebraska Act; did nothing about Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan

Democrat, elected into office because he didn't stir trouble; Dred Scott case; endorsed the Lecompton Constitution and Crittenden Compromise which was pro-slavery just so I wouldn't ahve to deal with slavery but they failed

Abraham Lincoln

Republican; Civil War, want to preserve the union and handled the border states; Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address; Second Inaugural Address; passed the Homestead Act and Morrill Land Grant Act

Andrew Johnson

Democrat and a white supremacists; had to deal with Radical Republicans for Reconstruction plan; almost got removed from office due to the Tenure Office Act

Ulysses S. Grant

Republican; went along with Radical Republicans and their Radical Reconstitution; first Transcontinental Railroad was built; had to deal with the Panic of 1973; corrupt administration

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican; Hayes-Tilden tied election results; took federal troops out of the South; ended radical reconstruction; helped develop the South infrastructure; let the Democrats regain power in the South

James A. Garfield

Republican; shot by a disgruntled federal employee

Chester A. Arthur

Republican; approved the Pendleton Act

Grover Cleveland 1

Democrat; Gilded Age big businesses cause problems leading to Interstate Commerce Commission, labor unions and strikes and Granger Movement

Benjamin Harrison

Republican; monopolies in trouble with Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Populists make a fuss and give us Democratic ideas, Sherman Silver Purchase Act and McKinley Tariff

Grover Cleveland 2

He's back; Panic of 1893; problems escalate with strikes and unions

William McKinley

Imperialism with the Spanish-American War; Open Door Policy to China; Boxer Rebellion; shot by an anarchist

Theodore Roosevelt

Republican; Progressive president; Square Deal; trust-busting; arbitrated coal strike; Hepburn Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection act; and conservation of the nature; manhandled the world with Big Stick policy and Roosevelt Corollary

William Howard Taft

Republican; all about business with Dollar Diplomacy; Paine-Aldrich Tariff

Woodrow Wilson

Democrat; Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve; Clayton Anti-Trust Act; 16th Amendment income tax; 17th Amendment direct elect Senators; 18th Amendment Prohibition; 19th Amendment women suffrage; had to deal with WWI

Warren G. Harding

Republican; want a Return to Mormalcy; like peace with the Washington Conference; love business with the Fordney-McCumber Tariff; fail with Teapot Dome Scandal

Calvin Coolidge

Republican; business of America is Business; peace and neutrality with the Kellogg0-Briand Pact; stop immigrants with National Origins Act

Herbert Hoover

Republican and love business; crash in 1929, made it worse by signing Hawley-Smoot Tariff; Bonus March

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democrat; President almost forever; New Deal Programs during the Great Depression ((AAA, NIRA, FDIC, TVA, CCC, Social Security, Wagner Act)

Harry S. Truman

Democrat; ended WWII with the atomic bombs; Fair Deal; desegregate the federal government and military; Taft-Harley Act messed up unions; want to contain communism with Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO and Korea

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Republican; develop nation with pro-business policies and the Inter4state Highway Act; Brown v. Board of Education; fails with containment but prefer brinkmanship

John F. Kennedy

Democrat; propose the New Frontier and Alliance for Progress; fail with Bay of Pigs, but redeem with Cuban Missile Crisis; got shot by Oswald

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrat; Great Society; civil rights acts, Medicare/Medicaid; education funding and reform; war on poverty; epic fail with Vietnam

Richard Nixon

Republican; New Federalism backs off the federal government; set up EPA and finalize integration; open up China and Russia with detente; Vietnamization; economy starts stagflation; Watergate scandal

Gerald Ford

Republican; pardoned Nixon; energy crisis

Jimmy Carter

democrat; more energy crisis and more stagflation. Foreign policy fails with Iran and Panama Canal treaties. Foreign policy wins with Camp David Accords.

Ronald Reagan

Republican; expand Republican Party with Christian conservatives; love supply-side economics; Less government and more deregulation; take on communism with Grenada and put pressure on Gorbachev; Iran-Contra Affair

George H.W. Bush

Republican. Cold War ends for me. I manhandle Iraq. Economy hurts my chances for election.

Bill Clinton

Democrat. The economy rocks during my administration. I sign NAFTA. Republicans take over Congress and give me trouble about an intern.

George W. Bush

Republican. I barely won the election. 9/11 let me attack Afghanistan and Iraq.

Barack Obama

Democrat. I promised change and got a healthcare plan through (Obamacare); Arab Spring; ISIL (terrorist attacks from Islamic States)

Donald Trump

Republican. I signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; held a Summit with North Korea; got Impeached; recieved criticism from teh handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic