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George Washington

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1789-1797

VP: John Adams

No party but acted Federalist

Whiskey Rebellion, Policy of Neutrality

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John Adams

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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

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Thomas Jefferson

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1801-1809

VP: Aaron Burr & George Clinton

Democratic Republican

  1. Louisiana Purchase-1803
  2. Tripolitan War-1801-1805
  3. Abolition of the Slave Trade- 1807
  4. Embargo Act- 1807
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John Madison

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1809-1817

VP: George Clinton and Eldbridge Gerry

Democratic Republican

  1. Macan’s Bill No2- 1810 (started war with GB
  2. War of 1812- When was that again?
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James Monroe

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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)

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John Quincy Adams

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1825-1829

VP: John C Calhoun

National Republican

  • Tariff of Abominations 1828 (rely on domestic products)
    *Internal Improvement
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Andrew Jackson

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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
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Martin Van Buren

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1837-1841

VP: RIchard Johnson

Democratic Party

–2nd Seminole War 1835
-Panic of 1837

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William Henry Harrison

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1841

VP: John Tyler

Died after one month in office :(

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John Tyler
“Man without a party”

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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”

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Zachary Taylor

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1849-1850

VP: Millard Filmore

Whig

-Gold Rush
- Clayton Buwler Treaty 1850 to have better relations with GB and US
-DEATH:))

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James K Polk

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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

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Millard Filmore

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1850-1853

Whig

(Took over after Taylor)
-Compromise of 1850
-Perry’s Mission to Japan1853

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James Buchanan

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1857-1861

VP: John Breckinridge

Democratic Party

-Bloody Kansas 1854-1859
- Panic of 1857
- SC succession 1860

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Franklin Pierce

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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

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Abraham Lincoln:)

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1861-1865

VP: Hamlin & Andrew Johnson

Republican

-Civil war 1861-1865
–Emmancipation Proclomation 1863
-Assassination 1865
- 13th Amendment 1865

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Andrew Johnson

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1865-1869

Democratic Party

-REconstruction
-Impeachment 1867
-14th amendment 1868

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Ulysses S Grant

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1869-1877

Republican

VP: Schyler Colfax

-Scandals
-Reconstruction
-Rise of KKK (Colfax massacre 1873)
-Panic of 1873

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Rutherford B Hayes

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1877-1881

Republican

VP: William Wheeler

-Compromise of 1877 (Gets him in office)

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James A Garfield

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1881

Republican

VP: Chester A Arthur

Assassination & Star Route Scandal

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Chester A Artuhur

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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

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Grover Cleveland

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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

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Bejamin Harrison

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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

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Grover Cleveland

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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)

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William McKinley

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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

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Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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William Howard Taft

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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

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Woodrow Wilson

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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!

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Warren Harding

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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

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Calvin Coolidge

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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

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Herbert Hoover

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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!
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Harry Truman

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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
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Franklin D Roosevelt

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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

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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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
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John F Kennedy

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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
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Lyndon B Johnson

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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
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Richard Nixon

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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

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Gerald Ford

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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
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Jimmy Carter

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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
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Ronald Regan

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1981-1989

REpublican

VP: George Bush

  • Assassination Attempt
  • Reaganomics which means economics were bad
  • Social Security
  • Terrorism
  • Iran Contra Scandal
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George Bush

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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
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Bill Clinton

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1993-2001

Albert Gore

Democrat

  • Scandals & Immpeachment
  • White Waters
  • Paula Jones
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George W Bush

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2001-2009

Richard CHeney

Republican

  • Tax Cuts
  • Environment
  • 9/11
  • Afghanistan
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Barak Obama

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2009-2017

Democrat

Joe Biden

  • American Stimulus or Recovery Act
  • Environment BP Deepwater Blowout
  • Healthcare
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Trump

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2017-2021

VP: Mike Pence

REpublican

  • Insurrection
  • Impeachment
  • Racism

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