American Presidents Flashcards
George Washington
1789-1797 No party designation - Established new government - Whiskey Rebellion - Jay Treaty - Farewell Address
John Adams
1797-1801 Federalist - Undeclared war with France - XYZ Affair - Alien and Sedition Acts - Father of the U.S. Army
Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809 Democratic- Republican - First Dem- Rep president - Executed Louisiana Purchase - Embargo Act of 1807
James Madison
1809-1817
Democratic- Republican
- War of 1812
James Monroe
1817- 1825 Democratic- Republican - Florida purchase - Era of Good Feelings - Executed the Missouri Compromise and the Monroe Doctrine
John Q. Adams
1825- 1929 Democratic- Republican - Corrupt bargain - supporter of internal improvements including C&O Canal - 1st photographed
Andrew Jackson
1829- 1837 Democrat - Expands of presidential power - Bank battle - Tariff/ Nullification Crisis - Indian removal
Martin Van Buren
1837- 1841
Democrat
- Panic of 1837
- Trail of Tears
William H. Harrison
1841- 1841
Whig
- First Whig president
- Died in office
John Tyler
1841- 1845
Whig
- Annexation of Texas
James K. Polk
1845- 1849
Democrat
- Mexican- American War
- Mexican Cession
Zachary Taylor
1849- 1850
Whig
- Last Whig president elected
- died in office
Millard Fillmore
1850- 1853
Whig
- Compromise of 1850
- Opening of Japan
Franklin Pierce
1853- 1857
Democrat
- Kansas- Nebraska Act
- Ostend Manifesto
James Buchanan
1857-1861 Democrat - Dred Scott decision - Johns Brown's raid - Seven states leave Union
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865 Republican - Civil War - Emancipation Proclamation - First president assassinated
Andrew Johnson
1865-1869 Unionist - Reconstruction - 1st president impeached - Purchased Alaska
Ulysses S. Grant
1869-1877
Republican
- Reconstruction continued
- Many scandals
Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881
Republican
- Compromise of 1877
- Reconstruction ended
James Garfield
1881-1881
Republican
- 2nd president assassinated
- supported Civil Service
Chester Arthur
1881-1885
Republican
- Pendleton Act
- Chinese Exclusion Act
Grover Cleveland 1
1885-1889
Democrat
- First Democratic president since Civil war
- Tariff battle with Congress
Benjamin Harrison
1889-1893 Republican - built up navy - grandson of William H. Harrison - McKinley Tariff - Sherman Anti- Trust Act
Grover Cleveland 2
1893-1897
Democrat
- only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms
- Depression of 1893
William McKinley
1897-1901 Republican - Spanish- American War - 3rd president assassinated - Open Door Policy
Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909 Republican - trust buster - Square Deal reforms - "Big Stick" in Caribbean - conservationist
William Howard Taft
1909-1913
Republican
- Dollar Diplomacy in Caribbean
- split with Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
1913-1921 Democrat - Progressive reforms - World War I - fought for League of Nations
Warren Harding
1921-1923 Republican - Normalcy period - political and personal scandals - 1st to speak on radio - died in office
Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929 Republican - pro- business - laissez- faire administration - Kellogg- Briand Pact
Herbert Hoover
1929-1933
Republican
- Great Depression strikes
- promoted attitude of rugged individualism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933-1945 Democrat - New Deal reforms - World War II - elected to four terms - died in 4th
Harry S. Truman
1945-1953 Democrat - Fair Deal reforms - Cold War begins - upset victory in 1948 - Korean War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953-1961 Republican - ended Korean War - maintained peaceful coexistence with USSR - established modern Republicanism
John F. Kennedy
1961-1963 Democrat - New Frontier reforms - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missile Crisis - Assassinated 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963- 1969 Democrat - Great Society reforms - Civil rights acts - Escalated Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
1969- 1974 Republican - Ended Vietnam War - recognized China - Watergate scandal - First President to resign
Gerald Ford
1974- 1977
Republican
- Took over when Nixon resigned
- Pardoned Nixon for his crimes
Jimmy Carter
1977- 1981
Democrat
- Camp David Accords
- Iran Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan
1981- 1989 Republican - Supply- side economics - Military buildup - Soviet Union's Cold War decline began
George H. W. Bush
1989-1993 Republican - invasion of Panama - Persian Gulf War - saw the collapse of Soviet Union
William Jefferson Clinton
1993-2001 Democrat - sent US troops to Bosnia - US economy boomed - impeached for lying under oath
George W. Bush
2001-2009 Republican - US attacked 9/11 - troops sent to Afghanistan - overthrew Saddam Hussein - deep recession
Barrack Obama
2009-
Democrat
- 1st Af- Am president
