Name	Party	Years	Accomplishments/Negatives
Washington	Federalist	1789-1797	Fought in the American Revolution Had to fix the problems created by the Articles of Confederation Creation of a bank (Hamilton) and the Elastic Clause
John Adams	Federalist	1797-1801	Alien and Sedition Act - Loses popularity from this Quasi War/XYZ Affair Midnight Judges
Thomas Jefferson	Dem-Rep	1801-1809	Jeffersonian Era (Election of 1800/Revolution of 1800) Mardbury v. Madison - Started judicial review Jeffersonian Democracy Louisiana Purchase The Barbary War Embargo Act Nonintercourse Act (no trade with France and Britain) Macon’s Bill No.2 (trade with either France or Britain) John Marshall (First chief justice - strengthened the Judicial branch) Treaty of Ildefonoso
James Madison	Dem-Rep	1809-1817	Founding Father of the constitution Macon’s Bill Started the Democratic Republican party with Thomas Jefferson War of 1812/Mr. Madison’s War - against the Natives (Tecumseh) Renews the Charter of the Bank of the US (2nd bank of the US)
James Monroe	Dem-Rep	1817-1825	Era of Good Feelings - Democratic Republican (1815-1825) Monroe Doctrine Missouri Compromise
John Quincy Adams	Whigs	1825-1829	Adams-Onis Treaty (Gained Florida) Promote American Expansion The Corrupt Bargain (1824) Tariff of Abomination
Jackson	Democratic	1829-1837	Jacksonian Democracy Invaded Florida during the Seminole War “Age of the Common Man” Indian Removal Act Nullification Crisis Force Act Wanted to weaken the Bank of the US Specie Circular Lowkey caused the Panic of 1837 Spoils System Pet Banks
Van Buren	Democratic	1837-41	Election of 1836 Panic of 1837
Harrison	Whig	1841	He died… dang
John Tyler	Whig	1841-1845	Treaty of Wang Hya
James K. Polk	Democratic	1845-1849	Mexican War Wilmot Proviso Popular Sovereignty Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Zachary Taylor	Whig	1849-1850	Pushed for the Compromise of 1850 Fought in the Mexican-American War
Millard Fillmore	Whig	1850-1853	Supported and signed the Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Franklin Pierce	Democratic	1853-1857	Ostend Manifesto Young America Movement Gadsden Purchase
James Buchanan	Democratic	1857-1861	Dred Scott v. Sandford 7 states secede
Lincoln	Republican	1861-1865	Emancipation Proclamation 10% plan Wade Davis Bill Homestead Act
Andrew Johnson	Democratic (Union)	1865-1869	Johnson’s Reconstruction Sewards Folly
Ulysses Grant	Republican	1869-1877	Panic of 1873 Not very well liked…. Specie Resumption Act
Hayes	Republican	1877-1881	Compromise of 1877 Unable to satisfy either the Stalwarts or Half-Breeds
Garfield	Republican	1881	Supported Civil Reforms Pendleton Act
Chester Arthur	Republican	1881-1885
Cleveland	Democratic	1885-1889	Dawes Severalty Act Interstate commerce Act
Benjamin Harrison	Republican	1889-1893	McKinley Tarrif Panic of 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 Help resolve the Panic of 1893 Dingley Tariff Gold Standard Act of 1900
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) Panic of 1907 Square View/Square Deal
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 World War 1 1914-1918 The 14 Points
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 Herbert Program - Welfare Capitalism The Great Depression
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: Conferences Creation of the UN
Harry S. Truman	Democratic	1945-1953	Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift Korean War Desegregating the Military Formation of NATO Fair Deal Reform Executive Order 9981
Dwight D Eisenhower	Republican	1953-1961	Supreme Ally commander in the European theater of WWII Federal Highway Act (1656) Army-McCarthy Hearings
John F. Kennedy	Democratic	1961-1963	AIDs Peace Corps Alliance for Progress Cuban missile crisis The New Frontier
Lyndon Johnson	Democratic	1963 - 1969	Vietnam War Dominican Republic (Bosch) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution The Great Society Programs Immigration and Nationality act Medicare/Medicaid
Richard Nixon	Republican	1969-1974	Detente Pentagon Papers Watergate Scandals The Silent Majority
Gerald Ford	Republican	1974-1977	Pardons Richard Nixon Lowkey a loser
Jimmy Carter	Democratic	1977-1981	Normalization with China Camp David Accords Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan	Republican	1981-1989	Reagan Realignment (New groups coming to his side) Reagonomics SDI/Star Wars Iran Contra Scandal
Geroge HW Bush	Republican	1989-1992	Persian Gulf War
Bill Clinton	Democratic	1993-2001
George W. Bush	Republican Party	2001-2009

AP US History - US Presidents (WIP)