US Presidents

Flashcards about the US Presidents

Who was unanimously voted president twice and was the commander of the Continental Army?

George Washington

Which president was known for the XYZ Affair and Alien and Sedition Acts?

John Adams

Who was president during the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

Thomas Jefferson

Who is known as the 'Father of the Constitution' and was president during the War of 1812?

James Madison

Which president's time in office was known as the 'Era of Good Feeling'?

James Monroe

Which president was a General, a hero of the Battle of New Orleans, and dealt with the Nullification Crisis?

Andrew Jackson

During whose presidency did the Panic of 1837 and 1839 occur?

Martin Van Buren

Who was the president that died from pneumonia after giving a long inaugural speech?

William Henry Harrison

Monroe Doctrine, First president to be photographed

John Quincy Adams

Canadian Border, Expelled from Political Party

John Tyler

Who was president during the Mexican-American War?

James K. Polk

Zachary Taylor

Only president to have their body examined after death

Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore

Which president dealt with 'Bleeding Kansas'?

Franklin Pierce

Dred Scott Decision, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the U.S.

James Buchanan

Who was president during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

Which president was the first to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

Led army during Civil War, First president elected after Blacks could vote

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

Reconstruction ends, First president to have a phone

James A. Garfield

Shot at a train station, Civil Service Reform

Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)

Chester A. Arthur

First (and only) president to be married in the White House

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

First electricity in the White House, Billion-dollar Congress

Which president was in office during the Spanish-American War?

William McKinley

Who built the Panama Canal?

Theodore Roosevelt

Which president got stuck in a bathtub?

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

World War I, Suffered a stroke

Who was president during the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Warren G. Harding

Sworn in by Taft

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Stock market crash (Black Tuesday), “Hoovervilles” and “Hoover Flags” during Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Social Security Act, World War II, Internment Camps for Japanese-Americans

Dropped atomic bombs on Japan (Manhattan Project)

Harry S. Truman

John F. Kennedy

Bay of Pigs Invasion, Approved assassination of Vietnam president

Lyndon B. Johnson

Medicaid/Medicare, Great Society programs

Resigned due to Watergate Scandal

Richard Nixon

Which president pardoned Richard Nixon?

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Only president from Georgia, Camp David Accords

Ronald Reagan

Cold War 'win', 'Tear down this wall' speech

Ended the Cold War

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

Impeached (second time in U.S. history)