AP US History - US Presidents (WIP)

Name

Party

Years

Accomplishments/Negatives

Washington

Federalist

1789-1797

John Adams

Federalist

1797-1801

Thomas Jefferson

Dem-Rep

1801-1809

James Madison

Dem-Rep

1809-1817

James Monroe

Dem-Rep

1817-1825

Era of Good Feelings

Monroe Doctrine

John Quincy Adams

National - Rep

1825-1829

Jackson

Democratic

1829-1837

Van Buren

Democratic

1837-41

Harrison

Whig

1841

John Tyler

Whig

1841-1845

James K. Polk

Democratic

1845-1849

Zachary Taylor

Whig

1849-1850

Millard Fillmore

Whig

1850-1853

Franklin Pierce

Democratic

1853-1857

James Buchanan

Democratic

1857-1861

Lincoln

Republican

1861-1865

Andrew Johnson

Democratic (Union)

1865-1869

Ulysses Grant

Republican

1869-1877

Hayes

Republican

1877-1881

Garfield

Republican

1881

Chester Arthur

Republican

1881-1885

Cleveland

Democratic

1885-1889

Benjamin Harrison

Republican

1889-1893

Grover Cleveland

Democratic

1893-1897

McKinley

Republican

1897-1901

Spanish American War

• Jones Act - Puerto Rico = US Territory

• Treaty of Paris 1898

Platt Amendment - Cuba

Philippine War

Open Door Notes - China

Roosevelt

Republican

1901-1909

Chapter 21/22

Led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War during the battle of San Juan Hill
The Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act

Natural Resource policies

Created several national parks

Created the Progressive Party/”New Nationalism”

Construction of the Panama Canal

Change in Monroe Doctrine: US can interfere in Southern American countries (Roosevelt Corollary)

William Howard Taft

Republican

1909-1913

Chapter 21/22

Federal Children’s Bureau

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute

“Dollar Diplomacy”

Woodrow Wilson

Democratic

1913-1921

Chapter 21/22

Underwood-Simmons Tariff + 16th Amendment\

“New Freedom” progressive program

Reformed the American Banking System - Federal Reserve Act

Reformed monopoly: Federal trade commission act and Clayton antitrust act

Child labor laws: Keating-Owen Act

16th-19th Amendment

League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles

Warren G. Harding

Republican

1921-1923

Chapter 23

Pledged a “Return to Normalcy” after WWI

Did not do much

Teapot Dome Scandal

1922 Washington Naval Conference

Calvin Coolidge

Republican

1923-1929

Chapter 23

Still did not do much - Believed that the government should interfere as little as possible

Worked with Andrew Mellon to reduce the federal budget and as a result, got rid of basically ½ of the nation’s WWI debt

Dawes Plan

Herbert Hoover

Republican

1929-1933

Chapter 23

Personified the modern, prosperous, middle-class society of the New Era

In the Commerce Department - Voluntarism and Associationalism

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Smoot-Hawlay Protective Tariff - Super High

Franklin Roosevelt

Democrat

1933-1945

***The New Deal

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

Foreign Policy:

• The Good Neighbor Policy (Latin America)

• Recognition of Soviet Union

• Reciprocal Trade Agreement - opens up trade and relations, lowers tariff

• Neutrality Acts

• ¨Quarantine Speech

WWII: