us presidents

white - no party/green- federalist/light blue - democratic-republican/bright red - national republican/dark blue - democrat/purple - whig/dark red - republican

George Washington

• first president

• 1789-1797

• introduced two term limit

• Farewell Address

conflicts: American Revolution, French/Indian War, Whiskey Rebellion

John Adams

• 1797-1801

• Alien/Sedition Acts

• Virginia/Kentucky resolutions

conflicts: American Revolution, Quasi-War with France

Thomas Jefferson

• 1801-1809 (two terms)

• wrote Declaration of Independence

• Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions

• association w/ Jeffersonian Democracy

• Marbury v. Madison

• Louisiana Purchase

• Embargo Act

conflicts: American Revolution, Revolution of 1800, Barbary War

James Madison

• 1809-1817 (two terms)

• Bill of Rights

• Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions

conflicts: American Revolution, War of 1812

James Monroe

• 1817-1825 (two terms)

• Era of Good Feelings

• Panic of 1819

• Missouri Compromise

• Monroe Doctrine

conflicts: American Revolution

John Quincy Adams

• 1825-1829

• Corrupt Bargain

• Henry Clay’s American System

• Tariff of 1828

Andrew Jackson

• 1829-1837 (two terms)

• Corrupt Bargain

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Spoils System

• Indian Removal Act

• Nullification Crisis

conflicts: Battle of New Orleans, Bank War

Martin van Buren

• 1837-1841

• Spoils System

• Trail of Tears

• Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison

president in March-April 1841 for one month cuz he freaking died

John Tyler

• 1841-1845

• Annexation of Texas and not much else

James K. Polk

• 1845-1849

• manifest destiny

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession

conflicts: Mexican-American War

Zachary Taylor

• 1849-1850

• died

Millard Fillmore

• 1850-1853

• Compromise of 1850

• popular sovereignty

Franklin Pierce

• 1853-1857

• popular sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

conflicts: Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan

• 1857-1861

• popular sovereignty

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Panic of 1857

conflicts: Bleeding Kansas, Raid on Harpers Ferry

Abraham Lincoln

• 1861-1865

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• assassinated

conflicts: Civil War

Andrew Johnson

• 1865-1869

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Redeemers

• 14th Amendment

• “impeachment”

Ulysses S. Grant

• 1869-1877 (two terms)

• Reconstruction

• Transcontinental Railroad

• 15th Amendment

• KKK/Force Acts

• Panic of 1873

• Gilded Age

Rutherford B. Hayes

• 1877-1881

• Compromise of 1877

• Great Railroad Strike

• Gilded Age

• patronage

James Garfield

• 1881

• Gilded Age

• patronage

• died

Chester A. Arthur

• 1881-1885

• Gilded Age

• patronage

• Pandleton Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Grover Cleveland

• 22nd and 24th President

• Gilded Age

• Dawes Act

• Depression of 1893

• Pullman Strike

Benjamin Harrison

• 1889-1893

• Gilded Age

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• McKinley Tariff

• Homestead Tariff

conflicts: Wounded Knee Massacre

William McKinley

• 1897-1901

• Gilded Age

• annexation of Hawaii

• died

conflicts: Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War

Theodore Roosevelt

• 1901-1909 (two terms)

• Progressive Era

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Panama Canal

• Anthracite Coal Strike

• Square Deal

conflicts: Philippine-American War

William Howard Taft

• 1909-1913

• Progressive Era

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Standard Oil v. US

Woodrow Wilson

• 1913-1921 (two terms)

• Progressive Era

• Fourteen Points

• League of Nations

• 19th Amendment

• Recession of 1920-21

conflicts: WWI

Warren G. Harding

• 1921-1923

• Roaring 20s

• prohibition

• Emergency Quota Act

Calvin Coolidge

• 1923-1929 (took over after Harding’s death)

• Roaring 20s

• prohibition

• Immigration Act of 1924

Herbert Hoover

• 1929-1933

• Roaring 20s

• prohibition

• Stock Market Crash

• Hoovervilles

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff

• Bonus Army

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 1933-1945 (almost four terms)

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Lend-Lease Act

• Atlantic Charter

• Manhattan Project

• Korematsu v. United States

• died

conflicts: WWII, Pearl Harbor, D-Day

Harry S. Truman

• 1945-1953 (two terms)

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• National Security Act

• Executive Order 9981

• NATO

• NSC-68

conflicts: WWII, bombing of Japan, Cold War, Korean War

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 1953-1961 (two terms)

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Little Rock Nine

• Baby Boom

• military-industrial complex

conflicts: Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War

John F. Kennedy

• 1961-1963

• New Frontier

• assassinated

conflicts: Cold War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon B. Johnson

• 1963-1969 (sworn in after assassination)

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Great Society

conflicts: Cold War, Vietnam War

Richard M. Nixon

• 1969-1974

• Southern Strategy

• Roe v. Wade

conflicts: Cold War, Vietnam War, Oil Crisis, Watergate

Gerald R. Ford

• 1974-1977

• pardon of Richard Nixon

conflicts: Cold War, Oil Crisis

Jimmy Carter

• 1977-1981

• Camp David Accords

conflicts: Cold War, Iran Hostage Crisis, Oil Crisis

Ronald Reagan

• 1981-1989 (two terms)

• the New Right

• Air Traffic Controllers Strike

• “Star Wars” Defense

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Immigration Control & Reform Act

• INF Treaty

conflicts: Cold War

George H. W. Bush

• 1989-1993

• Fall of Berlin Wall

• Collapse of Soviet Union

• Americans w/ Disabilities Act

conflicts: Cold War, Gulf War

Bill Clinton

• 1993-2001 (two terms and impeachment)

• New Democrats

• Good Friday Accords

• Lewinsky Affair

conflicts: Balkans War, Oklahoma City Bombing

George W. Bush

• 2001-2009 (two terms)

• Hurricane Katrina

• Great Recession

conflicts: 9/11, War on Terror, Afghanistan War, Iraq War

Barack Obama

• 2009-2017 (two terms)

• Great Recession

• Affordable Care Act

• Obergefell v. Hodges

conflicts: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bin Laden Raid

Donald Trump

• 45th and 47th President

Joe Biden