APUSH Presidents

George Washington

FOUNDING ERA

President #1 — (1789-1797)

Party: Unaffiliated

KEY EVENTS:

• Constitution’s ratification (1789)

• Judiciary Act (1789)

• Bill of Rights ratification (1791)

• First Bank (1791)

• Whiskey Rebellion (1791)

• Neutrality Proclamation (1793)

• Jay’s Treaty (1794)

• Farewell Address

John Adams

FOUNDING ERA

President #2 — (1797-1801)

Party: Federalist

KEY EVENTS:

• XYZ Affair (1794)

• Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)

• Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions (1798)

• “Revolution of 1800”

Thomas Jefferson

JEFFERSONIAN & JACKSONIAN ERA

President #3 — (1801-1809)

Party: Democratic-Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)

  • Lewis & Clark Expeditions (1804)

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

• Abolition of International Slave Trade (1807)

• Embargo Act (1807)

James Madison

JEFFERSONIAN & JACKSONIAN ERA

President #4 — (1809-1817)

Party: Democratic-Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• War of 1812

  • Hartford Convention (1814)

  • Treaty of Ghent (1814)

James Monroe

JEFFERSONIAN & JACKSONIAN ERA

President #5 — (1817-1825)

Party: Democratic-Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Era of Good Feelings

• Second Bank (1816)

• Adam-Onis Treaty (1819)

• Panic of 1819

• Missouri Compromise (1820)

  • Monroe Doctrine (1823)

John Quincy Adams

JEFFERSONIAN & JACKSONIAN ERA

President #6 — (1825-1829)

Party: Democratic-Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Corrupt Bargain (1824)

Andrew Jackson

JACKSONIAN ERA

President #7 — (1829-1837)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Spoils System (1829)

• Indian Removal Act (1830)

• Bank War (1832)

  • Nullification Crisis (1832)

Martin Van Buren

JACKSONIAN ERA

President #8 — (1837-1841)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Panic of 1837

William Henry Harrison

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #9 — (1841)

Party: Whig

KEY EVENTS:

• Died 1 month in the job

John Tyler

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #10 — (1841-1845)

Party: Whig (Expelled from the party)

KEY EVENTS:

• Initiated Texas’s annexation right as he left office

James K. Polk

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #11 — (1845-1849)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Treaty (1846)

• Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Zachary Taylor

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #12 — (1849-1850)

Party: Whig

KEY EVENTS:

• Died in officeM

Millard Fillmore

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #13 — (1850-1853)

Party: Whig

KEY EVENTS:

• Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act

Franklin Pierce

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #14 — (1853-1857)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

  • Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan

ANTEBELLUM ERA

President #15 — (1857-1861)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Abraham Lincoln

CIVIL WAR ERA

President #16 — (1861-1865)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Civil War begins (1861)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Gettysburg Address (1863)

• 13th Amendment (1865)

• Assassinated (1865)

Andrew Johnson

RECONSTRUCTION ERA

President #17 — (1865-1868)

Party: Unionist → Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Vetoed Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 14th Amendment (1866)

• Tenure of Office Acts (1867)

  • Impeached

Ulysses S. Grant

RECONSTRUCTION ERA

President #18 — (1869-1877)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• 15th Amendment (1869)

• Enforcement Acts (1870)

• Corruption scandals

  • Credit Mobilier (1872)

  • Whiskey Ring (1875)

Rutherford B. Hayes

GILDED AGE

President #19 — (1877-1881)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Compromise of 1877

  • Great Railroad Strike of 1877

James A. Garfield

GILDED AGE

President #20 — (1881)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Assassinated 4 months in

Chester A. Arthur

GILDED AGE

President #21 — (1881-1885)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Pendleton Act (1883)

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • Tariff of 1883

Grover Cleveland

GILDED AGE

President #22 — (1885-1889)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Haymarket Square Riot (1886)

• Dawes Act (1887)

  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

Benjamin Harrison

GILDED AGE

President #23 — (1889-1893)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• McKinley Tariff (1890)

• Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

Grover Cleveland

GILDED AGE

President #24 — (1893-1897)

Party: Democrat

KEY EVENTS:

• Panic of 1893

  • Pullman Strike (1894)

William McKinley

PROGRESSIVE ERA

President #25 — (1897-1901)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Spanish-American War (1898)

  • Caribbean Islands

• Annexed Hawaii (1898)

• Assassinated

Theodore Roosevelt

PROGRESSIVE ERA

President #26 — (1901-1909)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Trust-busting (1901)

• Square Deal (1901)

• Panama Canal (1904)

William Howard Taff

PROGRESSIVE ERA

President #27 — (1909-1913)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Continued trust-busting

• Dollar Diplomacy (1909)

• 16th Amendment (1913)

Woodrow Wilson

WWI / PROGRESSIVE ERA

President #28 — (1913-1921)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Federal Reserve Act (1913)

• Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

• WWI (1914-1918)

  • 1st Red Scare (1919)

    • Palmer Raids (1919)

  • League of Nations (1920)

• 19th Amendment (1920)

Warren G. Harding

ROARING 20’S

President #29 — (1921-1923)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Teapot Dome Scandal (1921)

• End of railroad strikes (1922)

Calvin Coolidge

ROARING 20’S

President #30 — (1923-1929)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• 1920’s boom

• Immigration Act of 1924

• Dawes Plan (1924)

Herbert Hoover

GREAT DEPRESSION ERA

President #31 — (1929-1933)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Stock Market Crash (1929)

  • Agricultural Marketing Act (1929)

  • Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

NEW DEAL ERA / WW2

President #32 — (1933-1945)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• New Deal (1933)

  • Social Security Act (1935)

• Lend-Lease Act (1941)

• WWII (1939-1945)

Harry S. Truman

POST-WAR / COLD WAR

President #33 — (1945-1953)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing (1945)

• Truman Doctrine (1947)

• 2nd Red Scare (1947)

  • McCarthyism

    • Army-McCarthy Hearings (1954)

• Marshall Plan (1948)

  • Berlin Airlift (1948)

• NATO (1949)

• Korean War (1950-1953)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

POST-WAR / COLD WAR

President #34 — (1953-1961)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Interstate Highway Act (1956)

• Suez Crisis (1956)

• Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

John F. Kennedy

COLD WAR

President #35 — (1961-1963)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Space Race (1955)

• Peace Corps (1961)

• Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

• Assassinated

Lyndon B. Johnson

CIVIL RIGHTS / VIETNAM WAR

President #3

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Great Society (1964)

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

  • Vietnam War (1965)

    • Tet Offensive (1968)

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Richard Nixon

CIVIL RIGHTS / VIETNAM WAR

President #37 — (1969-1974)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Vietnamization (1969)

• Moon Landing (1969)

• Pentagon Papers (1971)

• SALT I (1972)

• Watergate Scandal (1974)

  • Resigned

Gerald Ford

POST-WATERGATE ERA

President #38 — (1974-1977)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Pardoned Nixon

• Continued Vietnamization

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

• SALT II (1979)

• Economic difficulties

Jimmy Carter

POST-VIETNAM WAR / COLD WAR

President #39 — (1977-1981)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Camp david Accords (1978)

• Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)

• Energy Crisis

Ronald Reagan

COLD WAR / 1980’S

President #40 — (1981-1989)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• End of Cold War

• Reaganomics (1981)

• Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)

• Iran-Contra Affair (1985)

George H.W. Bush

POST-COLD WAR ERA

President #41 — (1989-1993)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• Fall of Berlin Wall (1989)

• Gulf War (1990)

• Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

• North American Free Trade Agreement (1992)

Bill Clinton

1990’S / ECONOMIC BOOM ERA

President #42 — (1993-2001)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Economic prosperity

• Scandals

  • Impeached (1998)

George W. Bush

WAR ON TERROR / 21ST CENTURY

President #43 — (2001-2009)

Party: Republican

KEY EVENTS:

• 9/11 (2001)

  • War in Afghanistan (2001)

• Patriot Act (2001)

• No Child Left Behind (2002)

• Iraq War (2003)

• Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (2003)

Barack Obama

21ST CENTURY

President #44 — (2009-2017)

Party: Democratic

KEY EVENTS:

• Financial Crisis Recovery (2009)

• Affordable Care Act (2010)

• Osama bin Laden'‘s death (2011)