1. George Washington -selection of a Cabinet to advise him -set precedents for Presidents -selection of a Cabinet to advise him -Whiskey Rebellion -Hamilton’s economic policies -bank and money system

2. John Adams -Jay’s Treaty -XYZ Affair -Alien and Sedition Acts -Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

3. Thomas Jefferson -Marbury v Madison -judicial review -agriculture should be basis of the economy -wanted to take out Hamilton’s economic plans -Louisiana Purchase -Lewis and Clark expedition -strict interpretation of the Constitution

4. James Madison - “Father of the Constitution” -War of 1812- British impressment of Amer. Sailors -Battle of New Orleans -Dolley Madison

5. James Monroe - “Era of Good Feeling” Missouri Compromise-1820 Monroe Doctrine

6. John Quincy Adams -Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida from Spain -defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824 in a nasty campaign -Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida from Spain

7. Andrew Jackson -Spoils system -Kitchen Cabinet -Democrat- “common man” -Spoils system -Kitchen Cabinet -Indian Removal Act-1830-Trail of Tears -Federal vs state power -more people voting -Jacksonian democracy

8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 - Trail of Tears

9. William Henry Harrison -was president for 30 days

10. John Tyler 1841-1845

11. James K. Polk -Mexican War- 1846-1848 -settles Oregon border with Britain -California Gold Rush 1848

12. Zachary Taylor

13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 -The Compromise of 1850 -Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

14. Franklin Pierce -Gadsden Purchase -Bleeding Kansas

15. James Buchanan 1857-1861 -December 1860- southern states begin seceding from the Union- he took no action -John Brown’s Raid

16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 -Civil War -13th amendment passed -1862- Homestead Act -1862- Morrill Act

17. Andrew Johnson -became Pres. with the assassination of Lincoln -impeached by the Radical Republicans but not removed from office -presided over Reconstruction of the South

18. Ulysses S. Grant -1869- Transcontinental Railroad -telephone -considered one of the worst Presidents

19. Rutherford B. Hayes - Given the election in the Compromise of 1877- in return he promised to end Reconstruction

20. James A. Garfield -assassinated in 1881

21. Chester A. Arthur -1882- Chinese Exclusion Act -Standard Oil trust created

22. Grover Cleveland -Samuel Gompers and the Amer. Federation of Labor formed

23. Benjamin Harrison -1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act -Populism -Hull House- community org. to help immigrants- “settlement houses”

24. Grover Cleveland -Plessy v. Ferguson- “separate but equal” -Pullman strike -Tammany Hall-political machine- Boss Tweed

25. William McKinley -1898 Spanish-American War -Open Door Policy (China) -assassinated in 1901

26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 -Progressivism -National Park System -”Square Deal”- domestic policy “Speak softly and carry a big stick”- foreign policy -Panama Canal Wright Brothers air flight- 1903

27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913 -first auto kept at the White House -16th amendment- 1913- income taxes -”Dollar Diplomacy”

28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 -U.S. joins World War I- 1918 -Treaty of Versailles- 14 Points -Women get right to vote- 1920 -Prohibition begins -1921 -”moral diplomacy”

29. Warren G. Harding - “Return to Normalcy” -Teapot Dome Scandal 1921-1923 - “Return to Normalcy” -Teapot Dome Scandal -dies in office

30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 -Jazz Age – “Roaring 20s” -Harlem Renaissance -1924- Native Americans get right to vote

31. Herbert Hoover The Great Depression Dust Bowl -Pres. when the stock market crashes in 1929 The Great Depression Dust Bowl

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt - The New Deal -World War II -Holocaust -Japanese Internment

33. Harry S Truman -drops atomic bombs to end WWII -Marshall Plan -Cold War -Korean War 1950-1953 -United Nations created

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower -hero of WW II -McCarthyism -Brown v. Board of Education- 1954 -interstate highway system

35. John F. Kennedy -elected in 1960- assassinated in 1963 “New Frontier” Berlin Wall built- 1961 Castro Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis NASA- the space race Peace Corp March on Washington

36. Lyndon B. Johnson -Pres. after Kennedy is assassinated -Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -escalates the war in Vietnam -the “Great Society” “War on Poverty” Civil Rights Act-1964 Voting Rights Act

37. Richard M. Nixon -1968-re-elected in 1972 -visits China -détente with the Soviet Union -Vietnamization of the War -Vietnam war ends in 1973

38. Gerald R. Ford -Pardons Nixon

39. James E. Carter -elected in 1976 -energy crisis -hostages in Iran -Camp David Accords

40. Ronald Reagan -1980-1988 -Conservatism “trickle down” theory of economics- Reganomics -supply side economics -Arms reduction talks with Soviets

41. George H.W. Bush -1988-1992 -Gulf War- Operation Desert Storm- against Iraq -fall of Berlin Wall and USSR

42. William Jefferson Clinton (Bill) -1992-2000 -NAFTA -impeached -Balanced budget -good economy

43. George W. Bush -controversial election of 2000 - Attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -War on Terror -Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan -PATRIOT Act -stimulus package and bank bail- out

44. Barack Obama -elected in 2008 -second stimulus package -lack of confidence, political arguments continue to slow economy -conserv. –liberals unable to find compromise