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Presidential Elections
All presidential candidates and parties as well as a quote which describes the election
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History
11th Grade
04/06/2011

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Term
1789
Definition

Washington- No Political Parties

"By George, it's unanimous"

Term
1792
Definition

Washington- No political parties

"This is my second and LAST term"

Term
1796
Definition

Adams- Federalist

Jefferson- Democratic Republican

"First political parties"

Term
1800
Definition

Jefferson- Dem-Rep

Adams- Fed

Burr- Dem-Rep

"We need a 12th Amendment to keep this from happening"

Term
1804
Definition

Jefferson- D-R

Pinckney- Fed

"I bought Louisiana cheap!"

Term
1808
Definition

Madison- D-R

Pinckney- Fed

"Mr. Madison's War"

Term
1812
Definition

Madison- D-R

Clinton- Fed

"How could you let them burn DC?"

Term
1816
Definition

Monroe- D-R

King- Fed

"Good-bye Federalists!"

Term
1820
Definition

Monroe- D-R

"Era of Good Feeling"

Term
1824
Definition

John Quincy Adams- D-R

Jackson- D-R

Crawford- D-R

Clay- D-R

"Corrupt Bargain"

Term
1828
Definition

Jackson- D

J.Q. Adams- National Republican

"Turkey in the straw!"

Term
1832
Definition

Jackson- D

Clay- National Republican

Wirt- Anti-Masonic

"The bank, I will kill it!"

Term
1836
Definition

Van Buren- D

4 Regional Whigs

"Enter the Whigs!"

 

Term
1840
Definition

William Henry Harrison- W

Van Buren- D

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"

Term
1844
Definition

Polk- D

Clay- W

Birney- Liberty

"54-40 or Fight!"

Term
1848
Definition

Taylor- W

Cass- D

Van Buren- Free Soil

"Expand slavery, popular sovreignty, or Wilmot Proviso?"

Term
1852
Definition

Pierce- D

Scott- R

Hale- Free Soil

"First we'll Polk 'em, then we'll Pierce 'em!"

Term
1856
Definition

Buchanan- D

Fremont- R

Fillmore- Know-Nothing

"Enter the Republicans and the Know-Nothings, exit the Whigs"

Term
1860
Definition

Lincoln- R

Douglas- Northern D

Breckenridge- Southern D

Bell- Constitutional Union

"Honest Abe gets 40% of the popular vote and isn't on the ballot in 10 southern states!"

Term
1864
Definition

Lincoln- R

McClellan- D

"McClellan is a copperhead!"

Term
1868
Definition

Grant- R

Seymour- D

"Radical Reconstruction"

Term
1872
Definition

Grant- R

Greeley- D/Liberal R

"Amnesty for the Johnny Rebs"

Term
1876
Definition

Hayes- R

Tilden- D

"Compromise of 1877"

Term
1880
Definition

Garfield- R

Hancock- D

Weaver- Greenback/Labor Party

"Tough way to get Civil Service Reform"

Term
1884
Definition

Cleveland- D

Blaine- R

"Democrats are the party of Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"

Term
1888
Definition

Harrison- R

Cleveland- D

"Billion Dollar Congress"

Term
1892
Definition

Cleveland- R

Harrison- D

Weaver- Populist

"Grover Cleveland, back again!"

Term
1896
Definition

McKinley- R

Bryan- D

"Thou shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"

Term
1900
Definition

McKinley- R

Bryan- D

"Remember the Maine"

Term
1904
Definition

T. Roosevelt- R

Parker- D

Debs- Socialist

"Square Deal"

Term
1908
Definition

Taft- R

Bryan-D

Debs- Socialist

"Fat is where it's at!"

Term
1912
Definition

Wilson- D

Taft- R

Roosevelt- Progressive "Bull Moose"

Debs- Socialist

"New freedom beats new nationalism"

Term
1916
Definition

Wilson- D

Hughes- R

"He kept us out of war, but watch out!"

Term
1920
Definition

Harding- R

Cox- D

Debs- Socialist

"Return to normalcy"

Term
1924
Definition

Coolidge- R

Davis- D

"The business of America is business"

Term
1928
Definition

Hoover- R

Smith- D

"Al Smith will subjugate the US to the Pope"

Term
1932
Definition

FDR- D

Hoover- R

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

Term
1936
Definition

FDR- D

Landon- R

"As Maine goes, so goes VT"

Term
1940
Definition

FDR- D

Willkie- R

"Don't let FDR be the first president to serve a third term"

Term
1944
Definition

FDR- D

Dewey- R

"We can't change the Commander in Chief in the middle of  a war"

Term
1948
Definition

Truman- D

Dewey- R

Thurmond- Dixiecrat

Wallace- Bull Moose

"Give 'em hell, Harry!"

Term
1952
Definition

Eisenhower- R

Stevenson- D

"I will go to Korea to stop the war"

Term
1956
Definition

Eisenhower- R

Stevenson- D

"I like Ike"

Term
1960
Definition

Kennedy- D

Nixon- R

"High Hopes"

Term
1964
Definition

Johnson- D

Goldwater- R

"The Daisy Ad"

Term
1968
Definition

Nixon- R

Humphrey- D

Wallace- Independant

"Richard Nixon, back again!"

Term
1972
Definition

Nixon- R

McGovern- D

"Watergate"

Term
1976
Definition

Carter- D

Ford- R

"I'll never lie to you"

Term
1980
Definition

Reagan- R

Carter- D

Anderson- Independent

"Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem."

Term
1984
Definition

Reagan- R

Mondale- D

"Morning in America"

Term
1988
Definition

Bush- R

Dukakis- D

"First Vice President to be elected since Van Buren"

Term
1992
Definition

Clinton- D

Bush- R

Perot- Independent

"Perot supporters get Clinton elected"

Term
1996
Definition

Clinton- D

Dole- R

Perot- Independent

"Gore: I invented the internet"

Term
2000
Definition

G.W. Bush- R

 Gore- D

Nader- Green

"Supreme Court elects Bush"

Term
2004
Definition

Bush- R

Kerry- D

"As Ohio goes, so goes the White House"

Term
2008
Definition

Obama- D

McCain- R

"The Audacity of Hope"

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