George Washington 1789

4 years

• Led American victory in revolution
• Fathered our government / country

John Adams

Federalist

4 years

• Founding father (Wrote Dec. of Indep.)
• Alein & Sedition Acts (controversial response to French war and paranoia)

Thomas Jefferson 1801

Democratic Republican

8 years

• Louisiana Purchase
• Embargo Act of 1807 (economic warfare against GB)

James Madison 

Democratic Republican

8 years

• "Father of the Constitution"
• 1st national bank
• War of 1812 to get GB off US's back

James Monroe

• Democratic Republican
• 8 Years
• "Era of Good Feelings"
• Missouri Comproimse 
• Monroe Doctorine (Kicking out GB forts in MidWest)

John Quincy Adams

National Republican

4 Years

• Tariff of Abominations 
• Reducdes national debt
• Corrupt bargain (Henry Clay help w/ presidency)

Andrew Jackson

8 years

Democrat 

• Bank Wars
• Paid off entire national debt
• Spoil system (corrupt)

Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

Democrat

4 years

• Panic of 1837 (depresion+unemployment=unpopular)
• Independent treasury system

William H. Harrison

Whig

1 year (1841-1841)

• 1st Whigh president
• 1st president to die in office
• "Tippecanoe & Tyler Too" (campaign slogan)

John Tyler 1841

Whig

4 Years

• Jeffersonian
• Annexation of Texas

James K. Polk

Democrat

4 years

• Against National bank
• Reduce tariffs
• Manifest DEstiny 

Zachary Taylor

Whig

1 Year

• last elected Whig
• Died in office
• Blocks Compromise of 1850 is his idea

Millard Filmore

Whig

3 Years

• Completed Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Clayton Bulwer Treaty to build a canal

FRANKLIN PIERCE

Democrat

4 years

• Ostend Manifesto ("Let's buy Cuba and wage war on Mexico if they don't let us.")
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (Repealled Mossouri Comp)

didn't prevent 7 states' succession

James Buchan

Democrat

4 Years (1857-1861)

• Allowed The Dred Scott descision (Congress can't fight slaverey because slaves = property by const)
• Used bribery to ensure Kansas' statehood
• Two-faced regarding slavery issue

Abe Lincoln 1861

Republican

4 years

• Emancipation Proclamation
• National Bank Act
• Reconstruction

#17

Andrew Johnson

Republican

4 years

• Reconstruction Act 
• 13th Amendment: outlaw of slavery
• 14th Amendment: dismantling racism
• 1st impeached president

Ulysses S. Grant

Republican

8 Years

• 1st Transcontinential RR
• Crushes corruption (tweed ring, credit mobilier, whisky ring)
• 15th Amendment (all races can vote)

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican

4 years

• Compromise of 1876
• ends reconstruction

James A. Garfield

Republican

1881-1881

0 years

• second president assassinated
• during the time of civil service reform (advocate)

Chester A. Arthur

Republican

4 Years

• Pendelton Act (no more spoils system)
• Civil Service Commisssion (civil service exam to be gov't worker)

Grover Cleveland

Democrat

4 years

• 1st Democrat since Civil War
• Disagreement with Congress abotu tariffs

Benjamin Harrison

Republican

4 years

• Increased American Navy
• McKinley Tariff (50% on imports)

Grover Cleveland

Democrat

4 Years

• Only pres who served 2 nonconsec. terms
• Panic of 1893 bc collapse of RR

William McKinley

Republican

4 years

• Spanish American War
• Open Door Policy
• IMPERIALISTIC

Teddy Roodevelt

1901-1909

Republican

8 Years

• 3 C's: Consumer Protection, Control of BB, Conservation
• Roosevelt Corrolary = Good neighbor policy

William H. Taft

Republican

4 years

• Took trustbusting too far
• Dollar Diplomacy (invest in other countries in order to gain)

Woordrow Wilson

Democrat

8 years

• Federal Reserve Act
• WWI The Fourteen Points speech
• Clayton Antitrust act

Warren Harding

Republican

2 years

• Died in office
• Teapot Dome Scandal (bribery)
• Conservative Agenda

Calvin Coolidge 

Republican

6 years

• supports business
• Laissez-faire economy
• demise of KKK

Herbert Hoover

Republican

4

• Blamed for Great Depression 1929
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930 (raise tariffs on imports)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democrat

12 years 

• New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform
• WWII: Allies support, neutrality, eventually forced to join war effort b/c Pearl Harbor

Harry S. Truman

Democrat

8 years

• Cold War involvement
• Truman Doctrine (prevent red spread in greece and turkey)
• Marshall Plan (eruo recovery)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Republican

8 years

• "Atoms for Peace"
• Working against racism

John F. Kennedy

Democrat

2 Years

• Cuban Missle Crisis (JFK avoided nuclear war with USSR)
• "alliance for progress"
• Assassinated

Richard Nixon

5 years

38

Jimmy Carter

Democrat

4 years

40

Ronald Reagan

Republican

8 years

George H. W. Bush

Republican

4 years

Bill Clinton

Democrat

8 Years

George W. Bush

Republican 

4 years

Barack Obaba

Democrat

Hopefully only 4 years