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43 Cards in this Set
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George Washington
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1st President (1789-1797)
Supported the 1st Bank of the United States Served 2 Terms |
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John Adams
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1797-1801)
Federalist Sedition Acts Alien Laws XYZ Affair Served 1 Term |
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Thomas Jefferson
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(1801-1809)
Democratic-Republican (Jeffersonian) Embargo Act – Non-Intercourse Act Wanted Small Military John Marshall Louisiana Purchase James Monroe, Robert Livingston Meriwether Lewis, William Clark Served 2 Terms |
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James Madison
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(1809-1817)
Democratic-Republican Macon’s Bill No. 2 War of 1812 – Treaty of Ghent (1814) Tariff of 1816 Rejected Nationally-Funded Roads Served 2 Terms |
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James Monroe
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(1817-1825)
Democratic-Republican “Era of Good Feelings” Panic of 1819 Missouri Compromise Monroe Doctrine Served 2 Terms |
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John Quincy Adams
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(1825-1829)
Democrat * Strong Nationalist Opposed Slavery Supported the building of nationally-funded roads and canals Served 1 Term |
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Andrew Jackson
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(1829-1837)
Democrat “Bank War” Panic of 1837 Trail of Tears Common Man Spoils System Served 2 Terms |
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Martin Van Buren
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(1837-1841)
Democratic Divorce Bill Independent Treasury Bill His delayed actions to end the Panic of 1837 caused the economic downturn to continue for many years. Served 1 Term |
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William Henry Harrison
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(1841)
Whig Died in Office on April 4, 1841 Served 1 Term** |
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John Tyler
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(1841-1845)
Whig Democrat at Heart Vetoes Bank of United States Lowered Tariff Served 1 Term |
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James K. Polk
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1845-1849)
Democrat Oregon Country w/Britain Mexican-American War Served 1 Term |
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Zachary Taylor
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(1849-1850)
Whig Underground Railroad Gold Rush Congressional Debate of 1850 Died in Office on July 9, 1850 Served 1 Term** |
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Millard Fillmore
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(1850-1853)
Whig Compromise of 1850 Fugitive-Slave Law of 1850 “2nd Era of Good Feelings” Served 1 Term |
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Franklin Pierce
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1853-1857)
Democrat Cuba/Nicaragua Transcontinental Railroad Kansas-Nebraska Act Lecompton Constitution w/Kansas Served 1 Term |
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James Buchanan
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(1857-1861)
Democrat Dred Scott Case Panic of 1857 John Brown Served 1 Term |
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Abraham Lincoln
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(1861-1865)
Republican Civil War Emancipation Proclamation Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theater Served 2 Terms** |
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Andrew Johnson
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(1865-1869)
Democrat Reconstruction Clashes with Congress Impeached 1 Vote Shy of Being Removed from Office Served 1 Term |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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(1869-1877)
Republican Political Corruption Credit Mobilier Scandal Panic of 1873 Served 2 Terms |
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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(1877-1881)
Republican Hayes-Tilden Standoff Electoral Count Act (Compromise of 1877) Civil Rights Act of 1875 Jim Crow Laws Served 1 Term |
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James A. Garfield
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(1881)
Republican Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau on September 19, 1881 Served 1 Term** |
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Chester A. Arthur
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(1881-1884)
Republican Pendleton Act of 1883 Attempted to stop political corruption Civil Service Commission Served 1 Term |
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Grover Cleveland
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(1885-1889)
Democrat Proposed a lower tariff to Congress to bring lower prices to consumers-cost he and his party the next election Served 1 Term |
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Benjamin Harrison
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(1889-1893)
Republican Billion-Dollar Congress McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 Discredited Republican Party McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 – brought more economic troubles to farmers Sherman Silver Act Purchase of 1890 – precursor to the Panic of 1893 Depreciated the value of silver due to the drastic rise of silver in circulation. Served 1 Term |
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Grover Cleveland
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(1893-1897)
Democrat Panic of 1893 Sherman Silver Act Purchase of 1890 Anti-imperialist Served 1 Term |
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William McKinley
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(1897-1901)
Republican Gold Standard Act of 1900 Imperialist Annexation of Hawaii Assassinated by a deranged anarchist on September 14, 1901 Served 1 Term** |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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(1901-1909)
Republican Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Progressivism Panic of 1907 Served 2 Terms |
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William Howard Taft
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(1909-1913)
Republican Trust Breaker Progressivism Served 1 Term |
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Woodrow Wilson
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(1913-1921)
Democrat Federal Reserve Act World War I Fourteen Points Address League of Nations Treaty of Versailles 18th Amendment – Prohibition 19th Amendment – Women Suffrage “Red Scare” Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti Served 2 Terms |
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Warren G. Harding
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(1921-1923)
Republican “Roaring Twenties” Automobile Industry Aviation Industry Flappers Corruption Teapot Dome Scandal Soft President Five Power Treaty/Four Power Treaty Died in Office on August 2, 1923 Served 1 Term** |
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Calvin Coolidge
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(1923-1929)
Republican Capper-Volstead Act Dawes Plan of 1924 Served 1 Term |
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Herbert Hoover
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(1929-1933)
Republican McNary-Haugen Bill Hawley-Smoot Tariff The Great Depression “Black Tuesday” (October 29, 1929) Served 1 Term |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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(1933-1945)
Democrat New Deal Relief, Recovery, Reform Did Not Work World War II Yalta Conference Died in Office on April 12, 1945 Served 4 Terms*** |
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Harry S Truman
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(1945-1953)
Democrat End of World War II Division of Germany United Nations Postwar Economy Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill) Served 2 Terms |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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(1953-1961)
Republican Armistice signed – “ending” the Korean War McCarthyism “Operation Wetback” Rounded up a million illegal Mexican immigrants Strategic Air Command (SAC) Space Race Sputnik I and Sputnik II National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Served 2 terms |
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John F. Kennedy
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(1961-1963)
Democrat Catholic New Frontier Peace Corps Strategy of Flexible Response Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Arms Race Tax Cuts Assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald Served 1 term** |
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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(1963-1969)
Democrat Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Affirmative Action Gulf of Tonkin Vietnam War War on Poverty “Great Society” Medicare Medicaid Counterculture Served 2 terms |
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Richard Nixon
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(1969-1974)
Republican Vietnamization Détente Policy with China and the Soviet Union End of Vietnam War Last Americans were evacuated from Vietnam on April 29, 1975 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Resigned from office in 1974 following the Watergate Scandal Served 2 terms** |
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Gerald Ford
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(1974-1977)
Republican Helsinki Accords Served 1 term** |
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Jimmy Carter
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(1977-1981)
Democrat Rising Inflation Oil Crisis Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Iranian Hostage Crisis Served 1 term |
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Ronald Reagan
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(1981-1989)
Republican Neo-conservatism Reduced the size of the government Cut taxes Shrunk the federal budget Supply-side Economics Increase in Military Spending Large increase in national debt Increasingly Friendly Relations with the Soviet Union Served 2 terms |
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George Bush
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(1989-1993)
Republican Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Americans with Disabilities Act Served 1 term |
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Bill Clinton
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(1993-2001)
Democrat Favored minorities and women North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Impeached on charges of perjury 2nd president to be impeached Not removed from office Served 2 terms |
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George W. Bush
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(2001-present)
Republican World Trade Center Attacks (September 11, 2001) Liberation of Afghanistan Liberation of Iraq/Capture of Saddam Hussein |
