US Presidents (B)

Fill-in

Brown v. Board 1954

Eisenhower

President when the Haymarket Riot of 1886 occured

Cleveland

President during John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859)

Buchanan

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Pierce

Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act 1906

T. Roosevelt

Pendleton Act 1883

Arthur

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

B. Harrison

Only president to resign

Nixon

Embargo Act of 1807

Jefferson

Created the Peace Corp

Kennedy

President during XYZ Affair

Adams (dad)

President during WWI, 1914-1918

Wilson

President whom Andrew Jackson accused of being part of a “corrupt bargain”

Adams (son)

First President elected after the property-owning restriction was lifted for voting

Jackson

President who was a hero of the Mexican-American War

Taylor

Indian Removal Act

Jackson

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

FDR

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

LBJ

Farewell Address warned against political factions (parties) and foreign alliances

Washington

President during the Era of Good Feelings; devised the doctrine about staying out of Europe’s business and vice versa

Monroe

Rough Rider/Trust Buster/Progressive

T. Roosevelt

Pullman Strike 1894

Cleveland

Pardoned Nixon

Ford

Wrote the Bill of Rights

Madison

Hero of the War of 1812

Jackson

Election known as the Revolution of 1800

Jefferson

President during the Civil War, 1861-1865

Lincoln

Manifest Destiny President

Polk

Longest serving president

FDR

“54-40 or fight!” president

Polk

Makes southern Democrats angry over Civil Rights; they form Dixiecrats

Truman

Pet Banks

Jackson

New Deal (1930s)

FDR

Great Society/War on Poverty

LBJ

Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK

The second pres. to go through the impeachment process

Clinton

Hartford Convention held (against war of 1812)

Madison

Wrote the Declaration of Independence, 1776

Jefferson

Used the Tonkin Gulf Resolution as a '“blank check” to escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War

LBJ

Out first African American President

Obama

Bull Moose/Progressive candidate in 1912

T. Roosevelt

Last pres. to be a member of the Whig party

Filmore

Trickle-down or “voodoo” economics (tax cuts for the rich)

Reagan

Considered first pres. of the “internet age”

Clinton

President during Great Depression and WWII

FDR

His 2000 election came down to a recount and a Supreme Court decision

Bush (son)

Star Wars; tax cuts; conservative Republican

Reagan

Shanty towns were named for him; blamed for the Great Depression; republican

Hoover

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation 1863

Lincoln

Teapot Dome Scandal

Harding

Defeats William Jennings Bryan in 1896 - leads to the end of the Populist Party

McKinley

Gave us the 14 points and wanted to be part of the League of Nations

Wilson

Dollar Diplomacy; Republican candidate in 1912

Taft

Highway Act of 1956

Eisenhower

First Gulf war - successfully proving we can win quickly and leave (unlike Vietnam)

Bush (dad)

9/11

Bush (son)

Globalization

Obama

Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872)

Grant

President when Chinese Exclusion Act became law 1882

Arthur

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Clinton

First VP to take over the presidency

Tyler

Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan

Truman

1st president to have congress override his vetoes

A. Johnson

The election of this Republican president ended Reconstruction/Compromise of 1877

Hayes

Famous Union general elected to 2 terms as president; had a corrupt admin.

Grant

Brokered a peace between Egypt and Israel in the late 70s

Carter

President when the last Americans left Vietnam

Ford

Annexed Hawaii. President during the Spanish-American War, 1898

McKinley

President when the 13th amendment was passed

Lincoln

President during the War of 1812

Madison

Little Rock 9

Eisenhower

Freedom Riders

JFK

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Reagan

Second Gulf War

Bush (son)

Watergate; Vietnamization

Nixon

Desegregated the armed forces with an Executive Order in 1948

Truman

Appointed Earl Warren - a famously liberal Supreme Court Justice

Eisenhower

Our first Catholic president

JFK

Panic of 1837

Van Buren

Iran Contra Affair

Reagan

The first president to go through the impeachment process

A. Johnson

Southern Strategy and Silent Majority

Nixon

Democrat who won the 1912 election thanks to the 3 party split

Wilson

Cold War officially ends (1991)

Bush (dad)

Vowed not to serve 2 terms (died within about a month)

W.H. Harrison

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Polk

Assassinated by a man who thought he deserved a government job based on the spoils system

Garfield

Farewell Address warned of the “military industrial complex”

Eisenhower

He wanted to preserve the Union, but his 1860 election led to the secession of several southern states

Lincoln

This president’s policies ended up changing the make-up of the democratic party to include African-Americans, labor union members, and Jewish citizens

FDR

Moral Diplomacy; progressive; president during WWI

Wilson

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Clinton

The 21st amendment (repealed prohibition) was ratified during his administration

FDR

Alien and Sedition Acts/Midnight Appointments

Adams (dad)

President during most of the roaring 20s; pro-business

Coolidge

Became president after a deal was made that would take federal troops out of the South and build a transcontinental railroad in the South

Hayes

Patriot Act

Bush (son)

Railway Act of 1862

Lincoln

OPEC oil embargo leads to gas shortage

Carter

Louisiana Purchase 1803

Jefferson