AP US History - US Presidents

George Washington

George Washington

1789-1797 Federalist
Whiskey Rebellion; Judiciary Act; Neutrality; Farewell Address

John Adams

1797-1801 Federalist
XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809 Democratic-Republican
Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Embargo of 1807

James Madison

1809-1817 Democratic-Republican
War of 1812; First Protective Tariff

James Monroe

1817-1825 Democratic-Republican
Missouri Compromise of 1820; Monroe Doctrine

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829 Democratic-Republican
"Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837 Democrat
Nullification Crisis; Bank War; Indian Removal Act

Martin Van Buren

1837-1841 Democrat
Trail of Tears; Specie Circular; Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison

1841 Whig
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"; First Whig President

John Tyler

1841-1845 Whig
"His Accidency"; Webster-Ashburton Treaty

James Polk

1845-1849 Democrat
Texas annexation; Mexican War

Zachary Taylor

1849-1850 Whig
Mexican War hero and staunch Unionist

Millard Fillmore

1850-1853 Whig
Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857 Democrat
Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gadsden Purchase

James Buchanan

1857-1861 Democrat
Dred Scott decision; Harpers Ferry raid

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865 Republican
Secession and Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation

Andrew Johnson

1865-1869 Democrat
13th and 14th amendments; Radical Reconstruction; Impeachment

Ulysses Grant

1869-1877 Republican
15th amendment; Panic of 1873

Rutherford Hayes

1877-1881 Republican
Compromise of 1877; labor unions and strikes

James Garfield

1881, Republican
Brief resurgence of presidential authority; Increase in American naval power; Purge corruption in the Post Office

Chester Arthur

1881-1885 Republican
Standard Oil trust created
Edison lights up New York City

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889 (1st term), 1893-1897 (2nd term) Democrat
Interstate Commerce Act; Dawes Act; Panic of 1893; Pullman Strike

Benjamin Harrison

1889-1893 Republican
Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Closure of the frontier

William McKinley

1897-1901 Republican
Spanish-American War; Open Door policy

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-1909 Republican
Progressivism; Square Deal; Big Stick Diplomacy

William Howard Taft

1909-1913 Republican
Dollar diplomacy
NAACP founded

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921 Democrat
WWI; League of Nations; 18th and 19th amendments; Segregation of federal offices; First Red Scare

Warren Harding

1921-1923 Republican
"Return to normalcy", return to isolationism; Tea Pot Dome scandal; Prohibition

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929 Republican
Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative

Herbert Hoover

1929-1933 Republican
"American individualism"; Stock Market Crash; Dust Bowl; Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1933-1945 Democrat
New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; "Fireside Chats"

Harry Truman

1945-1953 Democrat
A-bomb; Marshall Plan; Korean War; United Nations

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961 Republican
Brown v. Board of Education; Second Red Scare; Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight"); Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex

John Kennedy

1961-1963 Democrat
Camelot; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space program; Peace Corps

Lyndon Johnson

1963-1969 Democrat
Civil and Voting Rights acts; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Great Society

Richard Nixon

1969-1974 Republican
Environmental Protection Act; China visit; Moon Landing; Watergate

Gerald Ford

1974-1977 Republican
Pardoning of Nixon; OPEC crisis

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981 Democrat
stagflation / energy crisis; Iran hostage crisis; Camp David Accords

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989 Republican
Conservative revolution; Iran-Contra scandal

George H. W. Bush

1989-1993 Republican
Persian Gulf War

Bill Clinton

1993-2001 Democrat
NAFTA; Lewinsky scandal and impreachment

George W. Bush

2001-2008 Republican
War on terrorism; Patriot Act; Tax cuts; "No Child Left Behind"

Barack Obama

2008-2017 Democrat
Affordable Care Act

Donald Trump

2017-? Republican
"Make America Great Again"