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George Washington

Federalist

1788-1797


 

Definition

 

  • 1788-1797: Presidential Traditions Set (e.g. cabinet, two terms)
  • 1784-1795: Northwest Indian War
  • 1791: Crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion
  • 1791: Formation of the National Bank
  • 1794: Jay's Treaty
Term


John Adams

Federalist

1797-1801


Definition

 

  • 1798: XYZ Affair Sours French-American Relations
  • 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
  • 1798: Eli Whitney Creates 10,000 Interchangable Part Rifles
  • 1799-1800: Fries's Rebellion
  • 1800: First Case of Congress Determining President
Term


Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican

1801-1809


Definition

 

  • 1803: Marbury vs. Madison Empowers Supreme Court
  • 1803: Louissiana Purchase
  • 1804: Lewis And Clark Begin Expedition
  • 1807: Embargo Act
  • 1807: Slave Trade Banned
Term


James Madison

Democratic-Republican

1809-1817


Definition

 

  • 1810: First Steamboat Sails the Ohio River
  • 1811: Battle of Tippecanoe
  • Date not Found: War of 1812
  • 1814: First Machine Mass-Produced Using Interchangable Parts
  • 1815: First Railroad Charter Granted
Term


James Monroe

Democratic-Republican

1817-1825


Definition

 

  • 1817-1825: Era of Good Feelings-Political Unison
  • 1817-1825: Erie Canal Constructed
  • 1819: Spain Cedes the Florida Territory
  • Guess: Land Act of 1820-More Americans Move West
  • 1823: Monroe Doctrine- "Stay Away!"
Term


John Quincy Adams

Democratic-Republican

1825-1829


Definition

 

  • 1826: First Comercial U.S. Railroad Opened
  • Date Missing: Tarriff of 1828
  • 1827: First African-American Newspaper
  • 1829: First Labor Union: The Working Men's Party
  • 1828: Anti-Masonic and Nullifier Political Parties Formed
Term


Andrew Jackson

Democrat

1829-1837


Definition

 

  • 1830: Indian Removal Act
  • ~1831: Founding of the Whig Party
  • 1832: Nullification Crisis
  • 1834: Removal of Federal Deposits from the National Bank
  • 1836: Battle of the Alamo Begins Texan Violence
Term


Martin Van Buren

Democrat

1837-1841


Definition

 

  • ?: Record-Level Unemployment and Panic of 1837
  • 1837: Broad St Anti-Immigration Riot Against Irish
  • 1838: First Public Demonstration of Telegraph
  • 1838: Trail of Tears (Cherokee)
  • 1839: First Law Pemitting Women to Own Property
Term

 

William Henry Harrison
And due to his untimely death from pneumonia:

John Tyler

Democrats

1841-1845

Definition

 

  • 1841: Tyler Vetoes Bank Recharter, Violent Whig Riot Ensues
  • 1842: Commonwealth v. Hunt Legalizes Labor Unions
  • Ongoing: Edgar Allen Poe Grows Famous from Publishing many Peoms and Stories
  • 1844: First Electrical Telegram Sent
  • 1845: Congress Approves Annexation of Texas
Term


James Polk

Democrat

1845-1849


Definition

 

  • 1845: Polk Announces to Congress to Enforce Monroe Doctrine and Vigorously Expand West
  • 1846-1847: Mexican-American War
  • 1948: Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
  • 1848-1855: California Gold Rush
  • 1849: Regular East-to-West Coast Steamboat Sails
Term

 

Zachary Taylor
Who soon after election died and was replaced by

Millard Fillmore

Whigs

1849-1853

Definition
  • Missing: Henry Clay Introduces Compromise of 1850
  • 1850: Harriet Tubman Becomes Official Conductor for the Underground Railroad
  • 1850, 1851, 1852: The Scarlett Letter, Moby Dick, and Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
  • Also Missing: Great Flood of 1851 Devastates Midwest
  • 1852: First Chinese Laborers Imported to Hawaii
Term


Franklin Pierce

Democrat

1853-1857

Definition

 

  • 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • 1854-1860: Bleeding Kansas
  • 1854: Ostend Manifesto Drafted (About the Necessity of Purchasing Cuba)
  • 1856: The Caning of Charles Sumner
  • Ongoing: Multiple Occasions of Anti-Catholic Violence
Term


 James Buchanan

Democrat

1857-1861

Definition

 

  • 1857: Mormon Migration Inspires Utah War
  • 1858-1861: Lincoln-Douglass Debates
  • 1857: Dred Scott Decision: Slaves are Property
  • 1859: John Brown Raids Harper's Ferry
  • 1861: Secession of Seven States
Term

 

Abraham Lincoln

Who is assassinated and replaced by

Andrew Johnson

Republican and Democrat

1861-1869

Definition

 

  • 1861-1865: The Civil War
  • 1862: Homestead Act Signed into Law
  • 1863: Emancipation Proclamation Signed
  • 1865: Reconstruction Begins
  • 1865 and 1868: 13th and 14th Amendments Begin Racial Equality
Term


Ulysses S. Grant

Republican

1869-1877

Definition

 

  • 1870: The 15th Amendment Finishes the Trio of Civil Rights
  • 1869: NWSA (National Womens Suffrage Association) Forms
  • 1871: Force Act of 1871 Fights KKK, Albeit Overdue
  • 1873 to 1879: Post-Civil-War Depression
  • Ongoing: Heavy Political Corruption and Rings
Term


Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican

1877-1881

 

Definition

 

  • Unknown: Great Railroad Strike of 1877
  • 1877, 1880: Phonograph and Lightbulb Patented
  • 1877: Reconstruction Officially Ends
  • 1879: First time since the Civil War that dollars are equal to gold, signalling an improving economy
  • 1881: First State Prohibition of Alcohol Proves its Effect on the US
Term

 

James Garfield

Whose assasination brought into office

Chester A. Arthur

Republican

1881-1885

Definition
  • 1881: First Public High School West of the Mississippi Opens
  • 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
  • 1883: The Spoils System is Officially Ended
  • 1883: Supreme Court Repeals Civil Rights Act Because of Discrimination Being Unconstitutional
  • 1885: Charles Dow Publishes First Dow Jones Industrial Average
Term


Grover Cleveland

Democrat

1885-1889 and 1893-1897

Definition

 

  • Ongoing: Blizzards Kill Hundreds, Signalling Change in Climate
  • 1886: Statue of Liberty Arrives In New York
  • Missing: Panic of 1893 Begins Depression
  • 1896: Plessy V. Fergusson Civil Rights Case
  • 1896: Henry Ford Produces the First Car of his Business Empire that Would Put America on Wheels.
Term


Benjamin Harrison

Republican

1889-1893

Definition

 

  • 1889: First Electric Power-Transmission Line
  • 1890: Sherman Anti-Trust Act Ends Trust Monopolies
  • 1890: Beginning of the "Progressive Era"
  • 1892: Homestead Strike
  • 1893: First Motion Picture Studio Opened
Term


William McKinley

Republican

1897-1901

Definition

 

  • 1897: First Underground Subway Built
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
  • 1899: Great Blizzard of 1899 Damages Lives and Economy
  • 1900: U.S. Currency Placed on the Gold Standard
  • 1900: Phillipine-American War (Because who needs creativity)
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