PRESIDENT OVERVIEWS Flashcards
John Quincy Adams
1825-1829
Federalist, democratic-republican, national republican, anti-masonic, whig
1928 Tariff of abomination
james monroe
1817-1825
Democratic- Republican
Purchased Florida from Spain, signed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Economic panic of 1819-21.
andrew jackson
1829-1837
Democrates
Issued a proclamation against nullification of federal law by a state 1832.
martin van buren
1837-1841
Democratic
Panic of 1837
Opposed annexation of Texas as a slave state
william henry harrison
1841-1841
Democratic-republican, Whig
Died if pneumonia after only a month in office.
james polk
1845-1849
Democratic
Sought war with Mexico
USA- Mexican war.
(VP) john tyler
1841-1845
Whig
Admitted Texas into the Union 1845.
zachary taylor
1849-1850
Whig
Encourages California to apply directly for acmission to the Union.
(VP) millard filmore
1850-1853
Anti-mas1onic, whig, know nothing, democrate
Supported the 1850 Compromise
Guided through by Stephen Douglass
Franklin Peirce
1853-1857
Democrate
Kansas-Nebraska act 1854
‘Bleeding Kansas’
Death of the Whig Party
his son died, most attractive
james buchanan
1857-1861
Federalist, Dem-rep, Democrate
Dred Scott Case
Panic of 1857
Le Crompton Constitution
Lincoln-Douglass debates
John Brown’s raid.
abraham lincoln
1861-1865
Whig, until 1856, Republican
Secession of the Lower South
Creation of the confederacy
Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the Civil War
order overall (from monroe)
Monroe
Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrisson
VP John Tyler
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
VP Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
