Presidents Test Part 2 Flashcards
Grover Cleveland
Democrat
1893-1897
- Pullman Strike
- Coxey’s Army
William McKinley
Republican
1897-1901
- Open Door China Policy
- Spanish-American War
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican 1901-1909 - Meat Inspection Act - Pure Food and Drug Act - Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" - NAACP formed
William Howard Taft
Republican 1909-1913 - Mann Act - Pinchot-Ballinger Affair - Dollar Diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson
Democrat 1913-1921 - 18th Amendment / Prohibition - Fourteen Points - 19th Amendment / Women can vote - Red Scare - Birth of a Nation released
Warren G. Harding
Republican
1921-1923
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Mellon’s Trickle Down Economics
Calvin Coolidge
Republican
1923-1929
- First talkie: The Jazz Singer
- Scopes Monkey Trial
Herbert Hoover
Republican
1929-1933
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Bonus Army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democrat 1933-1945 - 21st Amendment / Cancels prohibition - The New Deal (Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Administration) - Manhattan Project - Japanese internment
Harry S. Truman
Democrat 1945-1953 - Marshall Plan - Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Creation of the United Nations
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
1953-1961
- Interstate Highway System
- Korean War
John F. Kennedy
Democrat
1961-1963
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban Embargo
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democrat
1963-1969
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Vietnam War
Richard M. Nixon
Republican 1969-1974 - Watergate Scandal - Hiss Case - Desegregating public schools - Philadelphia Plan (government contractors had to hire minority workers)
Gerald R. Ford
Republican
1974-1977
Jimmy Carter
Democrat
1977-1981
- Iran Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan
Republican
1981-1989
- “Star Wars”
- XO 12333
George H. W. Bush
Republican
1989-1993
Bill Clinton
Democrat
1993-2001
- Lewinsky Affair
George W. Bush
Republican 2001-2009 - Iraq War - Afghan War - PATRIOT Act
Barack Obama
Democrat
2009-2017
- Affordable Care Act
- Economic Stimulus Package
