History Prezzzz Flashcards
Learn all the prez, dates, party, and significant events
George Washington
1789-1797
VP: John Adams
No party but acted Federalist
Whiskey Rebellion, Policy of Neutrality
John Adams
1797-1801
VP: Thomas Jefferson
Federalist
1.XYZ Affair- 1798
2.Quasi Wars-1797-1800
3.Alien & Sedition Acts-1797-1801
4.Midnight Appointments- 1801
Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809
VP: Aaron Burr & George Clinton
Democratic Republican
- Louisiana Purchase-1803
- Tripolitan War-1801-1805
- Abolition of the Slave Trade- 1807
- Embargo Act- 1807
John Madison
1809-1817
VP: George Clinton and Eldbridge Gerry
Democratic Republican
- Macan’s Bill No2- 1810 (started war with GB
- War of 1812- When was that again?
James Monroe
1817-1825
VP: Daniel Tomkins
Democratic Republican
-1817-1818 1st Seminole War & led to Adams Onis
- Adams-Onis compromise (spain gave us florida) 1819
-Missouri Compromise 1820 ( Line between slave & free states)
-Monroe doctrine -1823 (warned europe not to colonize anything or else)
John Quincy Adams
1825-1829
VP: John C Calhoun
National Republican
- Tariff of Abominations 1828 (rely on domestic products)
*Internal Improvement
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837
VP: John C Calhoun then Martin Van Buren
Democratic Party
- Scandals: (Spoils System, Kitchen Cabinet, Peggy Eaton Affair)
- Oversaw Trail of Tears 1830
- Nullification Crisis 1832-1833 (Result of Tariff of Abominations and started by Calhoun of you guessed it: South Carolina)
- Bank wars throughout presidency
Martin Van Buren
1837-1841
VP: RIchard Johnson
Democratic Party
–2nd Seminole War 1835
-Panic of 1837
William Henry Harrison
1841
VP: John Tyler
Died after one month in office :(
John Tyler
“Man without a party”
1841-1845
Whig
-(Covered for Harrison and led to the 25th amendment)
-Preemption Act1841 allowed for more land for squatters
- Florida 27th state
- Vetoed bank issue and called “Man without a party”
Zachary Taylor
1849-1850
VP: Millard Filmore
Whig
-Gold Rush
- Clayton Buwler Treaty 1850 to have better relations with GB and US
-DEATH:))
James K Polk
1845-1849
VP: George Dallas
Democratic Party
-Oregon treaty 1846
- Mexican American war–> Treaty of Guadalupe Higado 1846-1848
- Independent Treasury Act 1846
-Walker Tariff: offered alternative to 1842 tariff
Millard Filmore
1850-1853
Whig
(Took over after Taylor)
-Compromise of 1850
-Perry’s Mission to Japan1853
James Buchanan
1857-1861
VP: John Breckinridge
Democratic Party
-Bloody Kansas 1854-1859
- Panic of 1857
- SC succession 1860
Franklin Pierce
1853-1857
Democratic Party
VP: William King
-Gadsen Purchase 1853
-Kansas & Nebraska Act 1854
- Ostend Manifesto 1854 aka the US wanted Cuba from Spain
-Anthony Burns 1854
-Nicaragua
Abraham Lincoln:)
1861-1865
VP: Hamlin & Andrew Johnson
Republican
-Civil war 1861-1865
–Emmancipation Proclomation 1863
-Assassination 1865
- 13th Amendment 1865
Andrew Johnson
1865-1869
Democratic Party
-REconstruction
-Impeachment 1867
-14th amendment 1868
Ulysses S Grant
1869-1877
Republican
VP: Schyler Colfax
-Scandals
-Reconstruction
-Rise of KKK (Colfax massacre 1873)
-Panic of 1873
Rutherford B Hayes
1877-1881
Republican
VP: William Wheeler
-Compromise of 1877 (Gets him in office)
James A Garfield
1881
Republican
VP: Chester A Arthur
Assassination & Star Route Scandal
Chester A Artuhur
1881-1885
Republican
-Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
-Pendleton Act 1883 which made people pass a test to get into gov position
-Mongrel Tariff 1883 didn’t do much to high tariffs
Grover Cleveland
1885-1889
VP: William Hendricks
Democrat
-Presidential Succession Act 1886 (specified which order each person of power would be in)
-Pensions & Private Relief Bill 1887 which gave money to texas for seeds during drought and pensions to veterans
- Interstate Commerce Act 1887 regulate railroad monopolies
-Dawes and severly Act 1887 allowed gov to break up tribal lands
Bejamin Harrison
1889-1893
Republican
VP: Levi Morton
-Dependent & Disability Pension Act 1890
- Sherman Anti Trust Act 1890; the first to stop big businesses from regulating trade
-McKinely Tariff Act 1890 raised tariff on foreign imports to 50% which hurt Hawaii- leading to imperealization
Grover Cleveland
1893-1897
VP:: Adlai Stevensons
Democrat
-Panic of 1893
- Wilson Gorman Act 1894 reduced mckinely tariff and over 4,000 income 2% reduction
-Pullamn Strike 1894 railroad strike
-Venezuela (Made the US seem like a good guy by protecting venezuela from britain using monroe doctrine but disguise)
William McKinley
1897-1901
Republican
VP: Garett Hobart
-Dingley Tariff Act 1897 (Counteracted Wilson Gorman)
-Annexation of Hawaii 1898
-Spanish American, cuban, Phillipine war 1898
- Open Door Policy 1899 to benefit the US when trading with China bc everyone thought china would collapse after boxer rebellion
Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909
VP: Charles Fairbanks
Republican
-Panama Canal 1904
- Roosevelt Corollary and stated that US could get involved in Latin American affairs (prompted by Venezuela) if they acted badly 1904
-Antitrust Policies
- Meat Inspection Act
-Panic of 1907
-Gentleman’s Agreement 1907
- Conservation Acts
William Howard Taft
1909-1913
VP: James Sherman
Republican
-Payne Aldrich Tariff which decreased tariffs in 1909
-Mann Elkins Act in 1910 expanded ICC powers
-Dollar Diplomacy expanded US economic powers
-Antitrust Policy
-Webb Keyon Liquor shipment
Woodrow Wilson
1913-1921
VP: Thomas R Marshall
Democrat
-Underwood Tariff to reduce tariffs and create income tax 1913
-Federal Reserve Act 1913 establish a bank
-Federal Trade Comission to establish the Federal Trade Commission 1914 to ensure just practices in marketplaces
-Clayton Anti Trust strengthened Sherman antitrust act 1914
-Child Labor Laws
-Relations with Mexico after MExican revolution but refused to recognzie new gov of mexico & Tampico==bad and germany said they would side with Mexico if US was involved in WWI
-WWI
-Adamson Act 1916 8 hour workday
- 19th amendment passed!
Warren Harding
1921-1923
VP: Calvin COolidge
Republican
-Teapot DomeScandal effect of no alcohol
- League of Nations which ended it
- Budget Bureau which placed restraints of federal expenditures
-Debs Pardon , Socialist
-Civil Rights
- Tariff; emergency tariff raised duties a lot for war efforts
Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929
VP: Charles Gates Dawes
Republican
-IMmigration Act of 1924 by reducing immigration and excluded Japenese while preventing Italians and Jewish ppl
-Tax Reductions but led to Great Depression
- Commercial Aviation starts
-Farm RElief Vetoes - tried fixing economy but didn’t work
–Kellog Briand Pact 1928 to renounce war as a means of settling disputes
- Veterans Bonus
Herbert Hoover
1929-1933
VP: Charles Curtis
Republican
- Agricultural Market Act which created a Federal Farm Board but didn’t really work
-Hawley Smoot Tariff 1930 which placed the emergency tariff act of 1921 and all trade suffered but Hoover hoped it would protect farmers from outside trade
-Prohibition so enacted the National Commission on Law Observance known as Wickersham Comission which showed alcohol enforcement didn’t work
-GREAT DEPRESSION! from 1. Surplus in agricultural products
2. lack of credit 3. High tariffs discouraged world trade
4. Higher wages stunted purchasing powers - Bonus March for veterans after promised by Coolidge
- Norris LaGUardia Act
-20th lame duck amendment ratified!
Harry Truman
1945-1953
Democrat
VP: Alben William Barkley
- Conclusion of WWII and ordered atomic strikes
- Nuremberg Trials
-Untied Nations start and Israel created! - Truman Doctrine and Cold War against Communism
- European Recovery Program
- 1948 creation of ISrael
- Korean War
- H Bomb beginning creation
- Red Scare
- Taft Hartley Act to curb labor rights provided by Wagner Act of 1935
- Fair Deal which achieved housing help, minimum wage up, social security up
-22nd term which limited future prez to two terms in office
Franklin D Roosevelt
1933-1945
VP: John Nance Garner 1933-1941
Henry Agard Wallace 1941-1945
Democrat
-New Deal to establish welfare by 1. response to banking crisis
2. infastrucure Civilian Conservation COrps 3 Agricultural Adjustment acts 4.federal Emergency Relief for poor 5. National Industrial Recovery to create Public Works administration and improve working conditions
- Good Neighbor Policy which replaced Dollar Diplomacy by withdrawing US troops from Haitti, repudiated Platt Amendment which said US could intervene in Cuba, increased payments to Panama for Canal
- WWII
- 21st amendment which repealed liquor
Dwight D Eisenhower
1953- 1961
VP: Richard Nixon
REpublican
- Conclusion of Korean War
- Cold War and Eisenhower Doctrine : asserted the right to aid any country threatened by Communism in area near Middle East
- Fall of McCarthy!
- Civil Rights: Civil Rights Act 1960
- Interstate Highway System
- St. Lawrence Seway
John F Kennedy
1961-1963
VP: Lyndon B Johnson
Democrat
- Bay of Pigs invasion when CIA helped cuban exiles invade Cuba to spark uprising to topple Fidel Castro Communist regime but US never helped
- Alliance for Progress: Build on the good neighbor policy
-Peace Corps! - Vietnam: If kennedy reelected, he would end vietnam war
-Civil Rights freedom fighters rising up and MLK - Berlin Crisis -
- Cuban Missle Crisis
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 which banned to end atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons
-SPace program - 23 amendment to let DC ppl vote
- Assassination
Lyndon B Johnson
1963-1969
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic
- War on Poverty: Economic Opportunity act to create jobs, Work Study Program, Head Start Program
- Civil Rights; CR Act 1964 barred discrimination & voting rights act 65 outlawed literacy tests and fg couold promote voter registration, CR Act of 1968 voted discrimitory housing
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Water Quality Act of 1965 & Clean Water Restoration Act 1966, Clean Air Act 1965, Air Quality Act 1967
- Vietnam war
-Pueblo Incident
-Dominican Republic - 24th amendment which outlawed poll tax and 25th amendment which provided the prez to fill a vacancy in vice president
Richard Nixon
1969-1974
VP: Agnew then Ford
-Vietnam War by reducing US involvement by widening down the war
-Seabed Treaty to ban nuclear weapons from the ocean floor in international waters
-chemical weapons treaty to destroy piles of chemical and biological weapons
SALT Agreement to limit to two missle sites each
- Wage Price Controls
- Law and Order: Organized Crime Control Act which authorized severe penalties for dangerous special offenders, Drug Abuse Control act which reduced penalties for simple possession but increased penalties for trafficking, Criminal Justice Act
- Environmental Protection Act
- 26th amendment which lowered voting from 21 to 18
- Watergate!, impeachment and resignation :OO
Gerald Ford
1974-1977
Nelson Rockefeller
Republican
- Nixon Pardon
- Clemency for Draft evaders
- Communist victory in Southeast Asia
- Mayaguez Incident
- Helsinki Agreement
- Whip Inflation Now
- Consumerism
- Energy
- Extension of Voting Rights
- Assassination Attempt
Jimmy Carter
1977-1981
Walter Mondale
Democrat
- Pardon of Draft Evaders
- Energy
- THREE MILE ISLAND!
- Environmental Protection
- SOcial Welfare for food stamps
- Human Rights
- Panama Canal Treaty which gave panama back the canal
- Camp David Accords
- Afghanistan
- American Hostages in Iran
- Carter Doctrine
Ronald Regan
1981-1989
REpublican
VP: George Bush
- Assassination Attempt
- Reaganomics which means economics were bad
- Social Security
- Terrorism
- Iran Contra Scandal
George Bush
1989-1993
Republican
Danforth Qualyle
- Tried to end taxes
- Saving and Loan Crisis
- Nicaragua
- Invasion of Panama
- Collapse of Communism
- Cold War yields
- Persion Gulf War
- Exxon Valdez
- American Disabilities Act
- Clean Air Act
Bill Clinton
1993-2001
Albert Gore
Democrat
- Scandals & Immpeachment
- White Waters
- Paula Jones
George W Bush
2001-2009
Richard CHeney
Republican
- Tax Cuts
- Environment
- 9/11
- Afghanistan
Barak Obama
2009-2017
Democrat
Joe Biden
- American Stimulus or Recovery Act
- Environment BP Deepwater Blowout
- Healthcare
Trump
2017-2021
VP: Mike Pence
REpublican
- Insurrection
- Impeachment
- Racism
