President: George Washington Years Served: 1789 - 1997 Political Party: None Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Hamilton’s Financial Plan Whiskey Rebellion Neutrality Proclamation Farwell Address President: John Adams Years Served: 1797 - 1801 Political Party: Federalist Key Events/Terms you MUST know: XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Midnight Judges President: Thomas Jefferson Years Served: 1801 - 1809 Political Party: Democratic-Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Marbury v. Madison Louisiana Purchase Chesapeake- Leopold Affair Leads to Embargo Act of 1807 Slave Traded Ended (Slave trade Compromise from Constitution) Non-Intercourse Act (Last four days in office) President: James Madison Years Served: 1809 - 1817 Political Party: Democratic-Republicans Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Macon’s Bill #2 Battle of Tippecanoe War of 1812 Hartford Convention Henry Clay’s “American System” (BIT) President: James Monroe Years Served: 1817 - 1825 Political Party: Democratic-Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Adams-Onis Treaty Monroe Doctrine (Written by JQA) Panic of 1819 Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) McCullough v. Maryland (Upholds constitutionality of BUS) President: John Quincy Adams Years Served: 1825 - 1829 Political Party: Democratic-Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824 “Tariff of Abominations” Gibbons v. Ogden (Interstate trade) President: Andrew Jackson Years Served: 1829 - 1837 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: The Liberator begins publication Nat Turner’s Rebellion Nullification Crisis Compromise Tariff of 1833 (Yay Death!) BUS veto “Pet” Banks “Trail of Tears” Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Worcester v. Georgia Texas achieves independence President: Martin Van Buren Years Served: Democratic Political Party: 1837 – 1841 Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Panic of 1837 (Caused in part by, “Pet Banks”
President: Calvin Coolidge Years Served: 1923 - 1929 Political Party: Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Dawes Plan John T. Scopes Trial National Origins Act Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic President: Herbie Hoover Years Served: 1929 - 1933 Political Party: Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Stock Market Crash Hoovervilles Hawley-Smoot Tariff (Remember, he’s a Republican) President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Years Served: 1933 - 1945 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Bank Holiday New Deal AAA, CCC, WPA, PWA, FDIC, TVA, Social Security Act Wagner Act 21st amendment Cash and Carry Lend-Lease Pearl Harbor Korematsu v. US Yalta Conference President: Harry S Truman Years Served: 1945 - 1953 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Taft Hartley Act Containment (George F. Kennan) Truman Doctrine (Greece and Turkey!) Marshall Plan Desegregation of Military (1948) Berlin Airlift NATO 22nd amendment Korean War President: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) Years Served: 1953 - 1961 Political Party: Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Brown v. Board Dien Bien Phu falls (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock Nine Sputnik Eisenhower Doctrine U2 Spyplane Sit-in (Greensboro, NC) President: JFK Years Served: 1961 - 1963 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Berlin Wall Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique New Frontier President: Andrew Johnson Years Served: 1963 - 1969 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: 24th Amendment Gulf of Tonkin Resolution The Great Society Medicare Medicaid Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Robert McNamara Tet Offensive
President: Richard Milhous Nixon Years Served: 1969 - 1974 Political Party: Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Vietnamization Cambodia Kent State Massacre Détente Nixon Travels to China Watergate Equal Rights Amendment (Failed to pass enough states) Roe v. Wade President: Gerald Ford Years Served: Republican Political Party: 1974 – 1977 Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Pardon of Nixon President: Jimmy Carter Years Served: 1977 – 1981 Political Party: Democrat Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Camp David Accords (WOW IS THIS IMPORTANT) Iran Hostage Crisis President: Ronald Reagan Years Served: 1981 – 1989 Political Party: Republican Key Events/Terms you MUST know: Reagonomics Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Iran Contra Scandal “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”