APUSH Presidents

George Washington

Judiciary Act (1789), French Revolution (1789), Tariff of 1789, Whiskey Rebellion (1794), Jay Treaty with England (1794), Pickney Treaty with Spain (1795), Farewell Address (1796), First Bank (1791-1811)

John Adams (Federalist)

XYZ Affair (1797), Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), Naturalization Act, "Midnight Judges" (1801), Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798)

Thomas Jefferson (Democrat-Republican)

Marbury v. Madison (1803). Louisiana Purchase (1803), Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-05) 12th Amendment (1804), Embargo Act (1807), Non-Intercourse Act (1809)

James Madison (Democrat-Republican)

Macon Act (1810)Berlin and Milan , Decrees Orders in Council, "War Hawks" (1811-1812) War of 1812, Hartford Convention (1814) First Protective Tariff (1816)

James Monroe (Democrat-Republican)

Marshall Court Decisions:
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Dartmouth College Case (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Acquisition of Florida from Spain (Adams Onis Treaty, 1819), Missouri Compromise (1820) Monroe Doctrine (1823) Sectional Tariff (1824), "Corrupt Bargain" election, 1824

John Quincy Adams (Democrat-Republican)

New York's Erie Canal, Tariff of Abominations (1828), Calhoun's Exposition and Protest (1828)

Andrew Jackson (Democrat)

Jacksonian Democracy, Tariffs of 1832 and 1833, Second Bank of the United States (B.U.S.- due to expire in 1836)
Formation of the Whig Party (1832)

Martin Van Buren (Democrat)

Panic of 1837, overspeculation in land, specie circular, no B.U.S. , unsound financing by state governments

William Henry Harrison (Whig)

bro died (1841)

John Tyler (Anti-Jackson Democrat)

Former Whig VP for William Henry Harrison

Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd B.U.S. Canadian border at 45th parallel

James K. Polk (Democrat)

Texas becomes a state (1845), Oregon boundary settled (1846), Wilmot Proviso (1846- (failed to pass Senate), Mexican War (1846-1848), Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Zachary Taylor (Whig)

bro also died (after Polk)

Millard Fillmore (Whig)

Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published (1852)

Franklin Pierce (Democrat)

Kansas-Nebraska Bill (Act) (1854)
Japan opened to world trade (1853)
Underground Railroad, Bleeding Kansas
Ostend Manifesto (1854), desire for Cuba, Spain is offered $100,000,000 in Ostend, Belgium, U.S. threatens to take
Cuba by force if deal is not made

James Buchanan (Democrat)

Taney's Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, South Carolina secession (1860)

Abraham Lincoln (Republican)

Civil War 1861-1865, Homestead Act (1862), Morrill Act-created agricultural colleges Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln's assassination-April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth

Andrew Johnson (Republican)

13th Amendment (1865), 14th Amendment (1868), Amnesty Plan (1865)
Military Reconstruction Plan (1867) Tenure of Office Act (1868) Impeachment Trial (1868) Formation of the KKK, Adoption of Black Codes

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)

First Transcontinental Railroad (1869) 15th Amendment (1870), Tweed Ring
Panic of 1873, Credit Mobilier scandal Whiskey Ring

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)

Bland-Allison Act-free coinage of silver
Troops withdraw from the South as a result of Compromise 1877

James A. Garfield (Republican)

bro assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau

Chester A. Arthur (Republican)

Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)-civil
service commission and testing set up (to deter patronage)

Grover Cleveland (Democrat)

Knights of Labor (1886), Haymarket Riot (1886) Interstate Commerce Act (1887) Washburn v. Illinois (1886)

Benjamin Harrison (Republican)

Populist Party Platform of 1892, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington becomes states (1889) Idaho, Wyoming become states (1890) McKinley Tariff (1890), Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

Grover Cleveland (Democrat)

Panic of 1893, Hawaiian Incident (1893) Venezuelan Boundary Affair (1895) Pullman Strike (1894), American Federation of Labor Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)

William McKinley (Republican)

New Imperialism, Spanish-American War (April 1898- February 1899), Open Door Policy (1899), Boxer Rebellion (1900)
McKinley's assassination by Leon Czolgosz (1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)

Panama Canal (1903-1914), "Big Stick" Diplomacy, "Square Deal" 3 C's-consumer protection, conservationism, control of corps. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904), Portsmouth Treaty (1905)
Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan (1904), Hague Conferences (1899 and 1907), Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, Muckrakers (1906) Political Reforms of the Roosevelt era
Trustbusting, Coal Strike

William H. Taft (Republican)

Paine-Aldrich Tariff (1909), Pinchot-Ballinger controversy 16th, Amendment (income tax) "Dollar Diplomacy"

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)

Underwood Tariff (1913)
17th, 18th, 19th Amendments, Federal Reserve System (1913) Federal Trade Commission (1914) Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) "Moral Diplomacy", Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, and Mexico
World War I (1914-1918) Lusitania-sunk May 1915 Zimmerman telegram
"Fourteen Points" January 1917 Treaty of Versailles (1919-1920) "New Freedom"

Warren G. Harding (Republican)

Teapot Dome Scandal, Albert Fall
Washington Conference (1921-22) Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)

Calvin Coolidge (Republican)

Dawes Plan (1924), Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act), Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

Herbert Hoover (Republican)

Panic and Depression, Stock Market Crash (1929), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Bonus Army (marched to D.C. to demand WWI bonus) 20th Amendment (changed inauguration date to Jan. 20th)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)

New Deal and "alphabet" government,
Second New Deal,
21st Amendment-ends Prohibition,
Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" program,
"Court Packing" scheme,
World War II-Hitler, Mussolini, Fascism, Spanish Civil War, Appeasement, Quarantine Speech, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease, Destroyer Deal, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, Big Three, Normandy, Yalta, Holocaust, Atlantic Charter, United Nations, Manhattan Project.

Harry S. Truman (Democrat)

Potsdam Conference (1945)
World War II ends-atomic bomb (Hiroshima, Nagaskai), 1945
Taft-Hartley Act (1947, Congress passes over Truman's veto) Truman Doctrine (1947), Marshall Plan (1947), Executive Order 9981-desegregation of military (1948) Berlin Airlift (1948-49)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO (1949) Fall of China to Communism (1949), Korean War (1950-1953)
"Fair Deal"

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

22nd Amendment, Brown v. Board of Education,
Beginning of Civil Rights Movement (Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Little Rock 9 at Central High School, etc).
Suez Crisis (1956), Eisenhower Doctrine,
Space Race, Federal Highway Act of 1956, Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959), U-2 spy plane incident (1960),
Farewell Address-warns U.S. of dependence

John F. Kennedy (Democrat)

Alliance for Progress, Baker v. Carr (1962)
Peace Corps, Cuba-Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) and Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
"New Frontier", Civil Rights Movement (Montgomery March, March on Washington and
MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, etc.) Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX (Nov. 1963) by Lee Harvey Oswald

Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)

The "Cold War", Income tax cuts, Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Civil Rights Movement (SNCC, Black Panthers, Malcolm X), Elementary and Secondary Education "Great Society", a.k.a. War on Poverty Medicare
Medicaid
Vietnam War-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964), Tet Offensive (1968)
Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and RFK (1968) Counterculture and hippies

Richard M. Nixon (Republican)

"Imperial Presidency", Moon Landing, Woodstock (1969)
E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) , 26th Amendment - lowers voting age to 18,
Pentagon Papers-Supreme Court to allow NY Times to publish (1971), Visit to China (1972), Visit to U.S.S.R. (1972),
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty), Kissinger "Shuttle Diplomacy" (1973-75), Vietnam War , bombing of Cambodia, Powers Act of 1973, Vietnamization, Kent State Massacre, Wounded Knee, South
Dakota ,
Allende regime in Chile-C.I.A.,
Agnew resigns,
Watergate Scandal,
Nixon resigns

Gerald Ford (Republican)

1st appointed (not elected) president after Nixon resigns *neither the president or vice president had been elected, Nixon pardon, O.P.E.C. crisis (1974)

Jimmy Carter (Democrat)

Panama Canal Treaty (1977), Established diplomatic relations with
Communist China, ended recognition
of Taiwan, Three Mile Island Incident (nuclear power plant leak) 1979
Egypt and Israel Peace Treaty (Camp David Accords) 1979
Iran Hostage Crisis (1979); rescue attempt failed, Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets (1979), "Stagflation", Energy Crisis
Boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest Afghanistan invasion

Ronald Reagan (Republican)

Hostages released from Iran
Failed assassination attempt of Reagan (1981), Falkland Islands crisis-U.S. supports England (1982), 1500 marines sent to Beruit in 1983, withdrawn in 1984
Grenada Invasion (1984)
Nicaragua and the Contras (1984)
Strategic Defense Initiative, a.k.a. "Star Wars" Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to the Supreme Court (1st Woman) "Supply Side Economics," tax cuts
Rise of Religious Rights
Iran Contra Hearings, Oliver North (1987)

George Bush (Republican)

Savings and Loan Scandal (1990)
Berlin Wall Falls, Reunification of Germany
(1989), Invasion of Panama (1990)
Soviet Union collapses, Cold War over (1991), Operation Desert Storm (1991)

Bill Clinton (Democrat)

NAFTA (1994), Troops sent to Bosnia
Whitewater Scandal, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Unemployment and inflation down Deficit lowered
Lewinsky Affair, Impeachment (1998)

George W. Bush (Republican)

9/11, Bush Doctrine (Afghanistan, Iraq) Homeland Security, PATRIOT Act
Bush Tax Cuts (2001, 2003)
No Child Left Behind (2001) Hurricane Katrina (2005) Great Recession (2007-2009)

Barack Obama (Democrat)

Death of Osama Bin Laden
Iraq (ended occupation) Afghanistan (Taliban resurgence) Arab Spring (Egypt, Libya, Syria) Ukraine (Crimea)
ISIS, Great Recession (2007-2009)
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act