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US Presidents
Presidents, Political Party, and event during Presidency
44
History
11th Grade
12/19/2010

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Term
1
Definition

George Washington

(No political party)

 

Established federal government

Term
2
Definition

John Adams

(Federalist)

 

Alien and Sedition Acts

Term
3
Definition

Thomas Jefferson

(Democratic Republican)

 

Louisiana Purchase

Term
4
Definition

James Madison

(Democratic Republican)

 

War of 1812

Term
5
Definition

James Monroe

(Democratic Republican)

 

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

Era of Good Feelings

Term
6
Definition

John Quincy Adams

Democratic Republican

 

Erie Canal

Term
7
Definition

Andrew Johnson

(Democrat)

 

Indian Removal Act

Veto of the Bank of the United States

Term
8
Definition

Martin Van Buren

(Democrat)

 

Divorce Bill

Term
9
Definition

William Henry Harrison

(Whig)

 

Shortest Presidency (32 days)

Term
10
Definition

John Tyler

(Whig)

 

Annexation of Texas

Term
11
Definition

James K. Polk

(Democrat)

 

Mexican-American War

Expansionist

Term
12
Definition

Zachary Taylor

(Whig)

 

California and New Mexico statehood dilema

Term
13
Definition

Millard Fillmore

(Whig)

 

Compromise of 1850

Term
14
Definition

Franklin Pierce

(Democrat)

 

Gasden Purchase

Bloody Kansas

Term
15
Definition

James Buchanan

(Democrat)

 

Panic of 1857

Allowed South Carolina to seceed

Term
16
Definition

Abraham Lincoln

(Republican)

 

Civil War/Emancipation Proclimation

1st President to be assiscinated

Term
17
Definition

Andrew Johnson

(Democrat)

 

13th, 14th, and 15th Ammendments

1st President to be impeached

Term
18
Definition

Ulysses S. Grant

(Republican)

 

Economic Panic of 1873

Credit Montilier Scandal

Term
19
Definition

Rutherfod B. Hayes

(Republican)

 

The Chinese Treaty

Term
20
Definition

James Garfield

(Republican)

 

2nd President to be assascinated

Term
21
Definition

Chester A. Arthur

(Democrat)

 

Modern navy created

Term
22
Definition

Grover Cleveland

(Democrat)

 

Only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms

Commerse Act

Term
23
Definition

Benjamin Harrison

(Republican)

 

Oklahoma Land Rush

Term
24
Definition

Grover Cleveland

(Democrat)

 

Only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms

Commerse Act

Term
25
Definition

William McKinley

(Republican)

 

War with Spain

3rd President to be assascinated

Term
26
Definition

Theodore Roosevelt

(Republican)

 

Gentlemeen's Agreement

Food and Drug Inspections

Term
27
Definition

William Taft

(Republican)

 

Marines intervine in Nicaragua

Term
28
Definition

Woodrow Wilson

(Democrat)

 

World War I

Term
29
Definition

Warren Harding

(Republican)

 

Immigration Quota

Term
30
Definition

Calvin Coolidge

(Republican)

 

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Term
31
Definition

Herbert Hoover

(Republican)

 

Stock market crash of 1929/Great Depression

Term
32
Definition

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Democrat)

 

Pearl Harbor

Beginning of WWII

Only President to serve more than 2 terms

Term
33
Definition

Harry Truman

(Democrat)

 

Atomic Bomb/End of WWII

Term
34
Definition

Dwight Eisenhower

(Republican)

 

Little Rock High School desegregated

U2 Shot Down

Term
35
Definition

John F. Kennedy

(Democrat)

 

Cuban Missle Crisis

Term
36
Definition

Lyndon B. Johnson

(Democrat)

 

Tet Offensive (Pre-vietnam)

Term
37
Definition

Richard Nixon

(Republican)

 

Vietnam War

1st man on the moon

Watergate Scandal-Resigned

Term
38
Definition

Gerald Ford

(Republican)

 

Helsinki Accords

Term
39
Definition

Jimmy Carter

(Democrat)

 

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Term
40
Definition

Ronald Reagan

(Republican)

 

Knocking down of the Berlin Wall

Term
41
Definition

George Bush Sr.

(Republican)

 

Liberated Kuwait

Term
42
Definition

Bill Clinton

(Democrat)

 

Intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo

Impeached-lied while under office

Term
43
Definition

George Bush Jr.

(Republican)

 

9/11 Attacks

Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Term
44
Definition

Barack Obama

(Democrat)

 

Universal Healthcare

End of War in Iraq

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