1. Politics
Who’s on Which Side?

2. Colonial Politics 1607-1789 Restoration Colonies vs. Charter Colonies
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgess- colonial self governance
Salutary Neglect vs. All those acts that made us Mad
Albany Plan
Loyalists v Revolutionaries
Washington
Articles of Confederation
Federalists Vs. Anti Federalists
Federalism

3. Early American Politics 1789-1824
Democratic Republican
Jefferson
Republican
Madison
Monroe
Federalist
Hamilton
John Adams
National Republican
John Q Adams
What do they disagree about? What is the era of good feeling?

4. Jacksonian Democracy1828-1848
Democrats v. Whigs
Popular vote, popular sovereignty
EXPANSION of everything
Slavery
War with Mexico
Power of the Executive
National Bank/American System

5. Antebellum1857-1865 Republican LINCOLN Stresses Leading to War Slavery
States rights
Land- Inc war with Mexico
Money
Sectionalism
Presidents- Democrats vs. Whigs Van Buren/Tyler Polk Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan (don’t stress about these guys)
Republican
LINCOLN

6. Reconstruction/ Gilded Age 1865-1901
Radical vs. Moderate reconstruction
Johnson and Grant
Amendments 13,14,15
Election of 1877
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, (Republicans) Cleveland (Dem), Harrison(R)- all kind of weak-
Million Dollar Congress
McKinley (R) foreign policy

7. Progressive Era 1868-1917 Teddy Roosevelt (R) and then Bull Moose
Taft (R) and Wilson (D)
Populist Party
Econ- Silver, income tax (16th)
Agriculture- Grange
Labor rights
William J. Bryan
Progressive party
Anti Trust- business regulation
Conservation
Low tariffs
Direct Democracy- Direct Election of Senators (17th)
Pragmatism LaFollette

8. Depression and WWII 1921-1955 Harding- Don’t care. He died
Coolidge (R) Kellogg- Briand Act
Hoover- (R) Hoovervilles- rugged individualism
FDR (D) New Deal, Overall role of Government, War
Truman (D) Fair Deal, Korea, Bomb

9. Cold War
Eisenhower (R)- return to normalcy, instant suburbia, I like Ike!
Kennedy (D)- Election!, impact of TV, assassination
Johnson-(D) Great Society, Vietnam, Civil Rights
Nixon (R) Law and Order, return to old values, Corruption

10. Modern Presidents Carter Reagan Bush Sr. Clinton
Bush II electric boogaloo
Obama