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43 Cards in this Set
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1
George Washington |
Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson
Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton Judiciary Act (1789), Tariff of 1789 Whiskey Rebellion (1799) French Revolution (Citizen Genet) (1793) Jay Treaty with England (1795) Pickney Treaty with Spain (1795) Farewell Address (1796), 1st Bank (1791 - 1811 |
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John Adams |
XYZ Affair (1797), Alien & Sedition Act (1798)
Naturalization Act, Midnight Judges (1801) Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions (1798) |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Secretary of State: James Madison
George Clinton Marbury v. Madison (1803) Louisiana Purchase (1803) Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804-05) 12th Amendment (1804), Embargo Act (1807) Non-Intercourse Act (1809) |
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James Madison |
Secretary of State: James Monroe
Macon Act (1810), Berlin & Milan Decrees Orders in Council, War Hawks (1811 - 1812) Hartford Convention (1814) First protective tariff (1816) |
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James Monroe |
Secretary of State: John Quincy Adams
Marshall's Decisions: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Dartmouth College Case (1819) 1815 - 1840 Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Acquisition of Florida from Spain (1819) Missouri Compromise (1820) Monroe Doctrine (1823), Sectional Tariff (1824) Favorite Sons Election (Jackson, J.Q. Adams, Crawford, Clay) (1824) |
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John Quincy Adams |
Secretary of State: Henry Clay
New York Erie Canal (1825) Tariff of Abominations (1828) Calhoun's Exposition annd Protest (1828) |
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Andrew Jackson |
Tariffs of 1832 & 1833
Cherokee Removal The 2nd B.U.S. (due to expire in 1836) Formation of Whig Party (1832) |
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Martin Van Buren |
Panic of 1837 - Overspeculation in land
Specie Circular, no B.U.S. Unsound financing by state governments Pet Banks |
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William Henry Harrison |
Secretary of State: Daniel Webster
Died within 90 days |
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John Tyler |
Anti-Jackson Democrat ran as VP as Whig
Secretary of State: Daniel Webster Vetos Clay's bill for 3rd B.U.S. Canadian border: 45th parallel |
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James K. Polk |
Texas becomes a state (1845)
Oregon boundary settled (1846) Mexican War (1846-48), Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo (1848), Wilmot Proviso kept slavery out of newly acquired territory |
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Zachary Taylor |
California Gold Rush (1849)
Dies in office |
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Millard Fillmore |
Secretary of State: Daniel Webster
Compromise of 1850 Clayton Bulwer Treaty 1850 - Britain & U.S. agreed not to expand in Central America if the canal is built Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) |
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Franklin Pierce |
Kansas Nebraska Bill (1854) - popular sovereignty
Japan opened to world trade (1853) Underground Railroad, Bleeding Kansas Ostend Manifesto (1854) - desire for Cuba/Spain offered $100,000,000 in Ostend, Belgium |
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James Buchanan |
Taney's Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Secretary of State: W.H. Seward
Secretary of Treasury: Salmon P. Chase Civil War (1861-1865) Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Homestead Act (1862), Morill Act - created agricultural colleges Lincoln's assassination: April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth |
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Andrew Johnson |
Secretary of State: W.H. Seward
13th Amendment (1865), 14th Amendment (1868) 15th Amendment (1870) Reconstruction Act (1867) Tenure of Office Act (1867), Impeachment (1868) Formation of KKK, Adoption of Black Codes |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Secretary of State: Hamilton Fish
15th Amendment (1870) First transcontinental Railroad (1869) Tweed Ring, Panic of 1873 Credit Moblier, Whiskey Ring |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
Bland-Allison Act (1878) - free coinage of silver Troops withdrawn from the south (1877)
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James A. Garfield |
Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
Assassination March 4 to 9/19 C. Julius Guiteau |
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Chester A. Arthur |
Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
Pendleton Act (1883) - set up Civil Service Commission |
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Grover Cleveland |
Knights of Labor (1886), Haymarket Riot (1886)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887) Washburn v. Illinois (1886) |
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Benjamin Harrison |
Secretary of State: James A. Blaine
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) Populist Party Platform of 1892 ND, SD, MT, WA - 1889 states Idaho, Wyoming - 1890 states McKinley Tariff (1890) |
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Grover Cleveland (2nd Administration) |
Panic of 1893, Hawaiian Incident (1893)
Venezuelan Boundary Affair (1895) Pullman Strike (1894), Wilson-Gorman, Tariff of 1894, American Federation of Labor |
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William McKinley |
Secretary of State: John Hay
New Imperialism, SPAM War (4/98 - 2/99) Open Door Policy (1899), Boxer Rebellion (1900) (1901 only) Assassination - Leon Czolgosz (1901) |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Secretary of State: John Hay, Elihu Root Progressive Age
Panama Canal (1903 - 1914), Square Deal 1900 - 1920 Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) Portsmouth Treaty (1905), Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan (1904), Hague Conferences (1899 and 1907), Hepburn Act (1906) Pure Food & Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, Muckrakers (1906) Political Reforms: Trustbusting, Coal Strike, Conservation Venezuelan Debt Controversy (1902), Dominican Republic crisis (1902 - 05), Algerius Conference over Morocco (1906) |
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William H. Taft |
Paine - Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Pinchet - Ballings: conservation, polygamy (1909) Dollar Diplomacy |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Underwood Tariff (1913)
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments Federal Reserve System (1913) Glassower Act (1913), Federal Trade Commission Clayton Anti-trust Act (1914), troops to Haiti, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands, Mexico. Lusitania (May, 1915), 14 points (1/17), Treaty of Versailles (1919 - 1920), New Freedom |
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Warren G. Harding |
Secretary of State: Charles Hughes
Dark Horse Candidate, Teapot Dome Scandal Washington Conference (1920 - 1922) Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922) Death in office |
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Calvin Coolidge |
Secretary of State: Frank Kellogg
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) |
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Herbert Hoover |
Secretary of State: Henry L. Stimson
National Origins Immigration Act (1929) Panic & Depression, Stock market crash (1929) Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
The New Deal
World War II |
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Harry S Truman |
End of WWII - atomic bomb
Taft-Hartley Act (1947), Truman Doctrine (1947) Marshall Plan (1947), NATO (1949) Korea (1950 - 1953), Fair Deal |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
22nd Amendment, SEATO
Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas) Suez Crisis (1956), Eisenhower Doctrine Space Race, Alaska & Hawaii become states (59) |
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John F. Kennedy |
Alliance for Progress, Baker v. Carr (1962)
Peace Corps, Cuba, New Frontier, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy Assassination - Dallas November 22, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
Cold War, Cuban Policy, Income Tax Cut
Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), Civil Rights Act (64) Anti-poverty Act (1964), Medicare Elementary/Secondary education Great Society |
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37 Richard M. Nixon
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Woodstock (Aug. 1969), EPA (1970)
26th Amendment (1971), China (2/72) Russia (5/72), SALT (1972) Kissinger's Shuttle Diplomacy (73 - 75) Wounded Knee, S.D. (1973) Allende regime in Chile - CIA (9/73) Agnew resigns (73) Nixon resigns (8/9/74) Pentagon Papers (8/30/71) - Superior |
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Gerald Ford |
1st appointed VP AND President
Pardons Nixon, OPEC crisis (1974) |
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Jimmy Carter |
Panama Canal treaty (9/77)
established diplomatic relations with Communist China; eds recognition of Taiwan 3 Mile Island (PA) (3/79) Egypt/Israel peace treaty; Sadat & Begin win Nobel prizes (3/79) Iran hostage crisis (1979) rescue attempt - 8 killed (4/80) Soviets seize Afghanistan (79) stagflation, Moscow Olympics boycotted |
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40 Ronald Reagan
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Hostages returned
Falkland Islands crisis - U.S. supports Eng. (82) 1500 Marines sent to Beirut (83) - withdrawn (84) Grenada (10/83), Nicaragua (84) Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court (first woman), supply side economics Iran Contra hearings - Oliver North (Summer 87) |
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George H.W. Bush |
Savings & Loan Scandal (1990)
Fall of Berlin Wall/Reunification of Germany Panama Invasion (1990) Operation Desert Shield/Storm (1/92 - 8/92) |
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Bill Clinton |
NAFTA (1993), Welfare reform (1996)
Newt Gingrich - Republican landslide (1994) impeachment Bosnia, Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda |
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43 George W. Bush
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Election controversy
China conflict September Eleventh War in Iraq |
