Presidents 1. George Washington,

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1 Presidents 1. George Washington, VP - John Adams - Judiciary Act, Tariff of Whiskey Rebellion, French Revolution - Citizen Genét, Jay Treaty with England, Pinckney Treaty with Spain, Farewell Address, First Bank of United States, John Adams, Federalist VP - Thomas Jefferson - XYZ Affair, Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act - "Midnight Judges," Kentucky (Jefferson) and Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, Thomas Jefferson, VP - Aaron Burr - Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Embargo Act, Non-Intercourse Act, James Madison, VP - George Clinton - Macon Act, "War Hawks," War of Hartford Convention, First Protective Tariff, James Monroe, VP - Tompkins - Marshall's Decisions: McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819; Gibbons v. Ogden, Acquisition of Florida from Spain, Adam-Oñis Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Sectional Tariff, John Quincy Adams, National VP - John C. Calhoun - "Corrupt Bargain" - Erie Canal, 1825

2 - Tariff of Abominations - Calhoun's Exposition and Protest, Andrew Jackson, VP - John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren - Jacksonian Democracy - Tariffs of 1832 and The 2nd Bank of the United States (due to expire in 1836) - Formation of the Whig Party, Martin Van Buren, VP - Richard M. Johnson - Panic of Specie Circular, no Bank of the United States - Unsound financing by state governments 9. William Henry Harrison, 1841 Whig VP - John Tyler 10. John Tyler, Anti-Jackson ran as VP on Whig ticket - Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of the United States - Canadian Border set at 45th parallel 11. James K. Polk, VP - Dallas - Manifest Destiny - Texas becomes a state, Oregon boundary settled, Mexican War, Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso 12. Zachary Taylor, Whig VP - Millard Fillmore 13. Millard Fillmore, Whig VP - - Compromise of Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Franklin Pierce, VP - King - Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854

3 - popular sovereignty - Japan opened to world trade, Underground Railroad - Bleeding Kansas - Ostend Manifesto, James Buchanan, VP- Breckinridge - Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Abraham Lincoln, VP - Andrew Johnson - Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Homestead Act, Morill Act, Assassinated April 14th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth 17. Andrew Johnson, 1865, th Amendment, th Amendment, Reconstruction Act, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment Trial, Formation of KKK - Adoption of Black Codes in the South 18. Ulysses S. Grant, VP - Colfax, Wilson - 15th Amendment, First Transcontinental Railroad, Tweed Ring - Panic of Crédit Mobilier - Whiskey Ring - Indian Ring 19. Rutherford B. Hayes, VP - Wheeler - Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinage of silver) - Troops withdrawn from the South, James A Garfield, March 4 to September 19, 1881 VP - Chester A. Arthur - Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau 21. Chester A. Arthur,

4 - Pendleton Act, 1883 (set up civil service commission) 22. Grover Cleveland, VP - Hendricks - Knights of Labor, Haymarket Riot, Interstate Commerce Act, Washburn v. Illinois, Benjamin Harrison, VP - Morton - Sherman Anti-trust Act, Populist Party Platform, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington become states, Idaho and Wyoming become states, McKinley Tariff, Sherman Act, Grover Cleveland, VP - Stevenson - Panic of Hawaiian incident, Venezuelan Boundary Affair, Pullman Strike, American Federation of Labor - Wilson-Gorman Tariff, William McKinley, VP - Garet Hobart, VP - Theodore Roosevelt - New Imperialism - Spanish-American War, April February Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, Theodore Roosevelt, VP - Fairbanks - Panama Canal, "Square Deal" - Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Portsmouth Treaty, Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers", Trust-busting - Coal Strike - Conservation 27. William Howard Taft, VP - Sherman

5 - Paine-Aldrich Tariff, Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909 (conservation v. reclamation) - "Dollar Diplomacy" 28. Woodrow Wilson, VP - Marshall - Underwood Tariff, th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments - Federal Reserve System, Federal trade Commission, Clayton Anti-trust Act, Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico - "Fourteen Points," January Treaty of Versailles, "New Freedom" 29. Warren G. Harding, "Dark Horse" candidate VP - Calvin Coolidge Secretary of State - Charles Evans Hughes - Teapot Dome Scandal - Washington Conference, Fordney-McCumber Tariff, Calvin Coolidge, VP - Dawes Secretary of State - Frank Kellogg - Kellogg-Briand Pact, Herbert Hoover, VP - Curtis Secretary of State - Henry L. Stimson - National Origins Immigration Act, Panic and Depression - Stock market Crash, Hawley-Smoot tariff, Franklin D. Roosevelt, VP - Garner, Wallace, Truman - New Deal - "Alphabet soup" bureaucracies - World War 2 - Labor reforms 33. Harry S. Truman, VP - Barkley - World War 2 ends - Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August Taft-Harley Act, Truman Doctrine, 1947

6 - Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Korean War, "Fair Deal" 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower, VP - Nixon - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) - Eisenhower Doctrine - the "race for space" - Alaska and Hawaii become states, John F. Kennedy, VP - Lyndon B. Johnson - Alliance for Progress - Baker v. Carr, Peace Corps - Cuban Missile Crisis, "New Frontier" - Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty - Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald 36. Lyndon B. Johnson, VP - Humphrey - Wesberry v. Sanders, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Anti-Poverty Act, Elementary and Secondary education reform - Medicare - "Great Society" 37. Richard M. Nixon, VP - Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford - Landing on the moon, July Woodstock, August Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established, Visit to China, February Visit to Russia, May Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), Wounded Knee, South Dakota, Allende regime in Chile overthrown with the help of the CIA, September Agnew resigns, Nixon resigns, August 9, Pentagon Papers, August 30, Gerald Ford, VP - Nelson Rockefeller - Pardons Richard Nixon - OPEC crisis, Jimmy Carter,

7 VP - Walter Mondale - Panama Canal Treaty signed, September Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan - Three-Mile Island Incident, March 1979 (nuclear reactor leak in Pennsylvania) - Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Prize, Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979 (rescue attempt, 8 killed, April 1980) - Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets, "Stagflation" - Boycott of Olympics in Moscow to protest invasion of Afghanistan 40. Ronald Reagan, VP - George Bush - Hostages returned Marines sent to Beirut, 1983; withdrawn in Grenada, October Nicaragua, Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court - "Supply-side economics" - Iran-Contra Hearings, Summer 1987 (Oliver North) 41. George Bush, VP - Dan Quayle - Savings and Loan Scandal, Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany - Invasion of Panama, Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War), January to August Bill Clinton, VP - Al Gore - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Participates in air strikes in Bosnia, Participates in air strikes in Iraq - Sex scandal, Participates in air strikes on Serbia, George W. Bush, VP - Dick Cheney - Disputed election, eventually decided by the Supreme Court - "Compassionate Conservatism" - War on Terrorism, post-september 11, Attacks terrorist forces in Afghanistan