Presidents Flashcards
(43 cards)
1) George Washington
1789-1797
Period 3
Citizen Genet (1793) Whiskey rebellion (1794) Jay treaty and Pinckney Treaty (1795)
2) John Adams (1797-1801)
Period 3
Alien and sedition acts (1798) Kentucky and Virginia resolutions (1798) Treaty with France Father of American NAVY XYZ Affair
3) Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
Period 4
Election of 1800- from federalist to DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN
Louisiana purchase (1803)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Embargo Act 1807 (stopped trade with all foreign nations)
1808- Slave trade ended
1809- Non intercourse act
4) James Madison (1809-1817)- Democratic republican
Period 4
War of 1812 - Napoleon- world politics 1812- War with England 1814- Treaty of Ghent Battle of New Orleans Aug. 1814- British burn and raid capital
5) James Monroe (1817-1825)- Democratic Republican
Period 4
Missouri compromise (1820)
Era of good feeling (Peace)
Monroe doctrine (1823)
Adam-Onis Treaty (1819)
6) John Quincy Adams (1825) Democratic Republican
Period 4
Election of 1828- Jackson vs. Adams
Wanted to explore west and fund education
Popular votes created- 1824
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) DEMOCRAT
Period 4
Jacksonian democracy- opposed government monopoly
Spoils system Peggy Eaton affair Jackson's kitchen cabinet Indian removal act of 1830-> Trail of tears South Carolina nullification crisis Nat turner's rebellion (1831) Whig party formed (1834) Republics of Texas established (1835) 1830s- Railroad era
8) Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) Democrat
Period 4
Panic of 1837- Consequence of Jackson bank war
Panic of 1839- caused by cotton market crash
Manifest destiny
Telegraphs/ railroads
9) William Henry Harrison (1841) WHIG party
Period 4
Died in office
10) John Tyler (1841-1845) Whig
Period 4
Webster ashburd Treaty (US and GB) settled border btwn US/Canada
Annexation of Texas
11) James Polk (1845-1849) democrat
Period 4
EXPANSION
Manifest destiny
Mexican war (1846)
49th parallel
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo- ended Mexican war (1848)
US gets california and New Mexico
12) Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) Whig
Period 4/5
(1849) Gold discovered in California
(1850) Compromise of 1850
Fugitive slave law strengthened
13) Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) Whig
Period 5
Signed Compromise of 1850
14) Franklin Pierce (1854-1857) democrat
Period 5
Kansas Nebraska act (Repeal Missouri Compromise, states decide slavery)
Result- Abraham Lincoln created Republican Party
15) James Buchanan
Democrat
Period 5
Tried to force slavery into north, made slavery worse.
16) Abraham Lincoln (1861- 1865) REPUBLICAN
Period 5/6
1861- Civil war begins (Fort Sumter) Emancipation proclamation (1862) Shermans march to the sea (1864) Lee surrenders to Grant (1865) Assassinated 4-14-1865 by John Wilkes Booth
13th Amendment abolished slavery (1865) KKK formed (1865)
17) Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
Democrat Union
Period 5/6
RECONSTRUCTION
14th amendment (civil rights) (1868)
IMPEACHED
18) Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Republican
Period 5/6
Scandals-> Whiskey ring, Indian Fraud, Credit Mobilier
15th amendment-> black votes (1870)
(1876) End of reconstruction
Battle of little big horn
19) Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) Republican
Period 6
Great compromise of 1877->
Munn vs. Illinois (states may regulate warehouse rates)
20) James A. Garfield (1881) Republican
Period 6
Wanted ag. Tech.
21) Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) Republican
Period 6
1883 Pendleton Act (Civil service)
Upgraded the navy -> what lets the US fight in the Spanish American war
22) Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) Democrat
Period 6
Opposed inflation, imperialism, high tariffs
23) Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Republican
Period 6/7
McKinley Tariff, leads to monopolies and Robber barons (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan)
Sherman anti trust act (1890)
Massacre at wounded knee (1890)
Sherman silver purchase act (1890)- repealed in 1893
24) Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) AGAIN
Period 6/7
Panic of 1893- industry went down, no work
Pollock vs. Farmers (1895) strikes down income tax
