US Presidents
Cards (31)
- President: George WashingtonDates: 1789 - 1797Party: FederalistEvents:
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Judiciary Act
- Farewell Address
- President: John Quincy AdamsDates: 1825 - 1829Party: Democratic-RepublicanEvents: "Corrupt Bargain"; "Tariff of Abominations"
- President: William Henry HarrisonDates: 1841Party: First Whig President
- President: James PolkDates: 1845 - 1849Party: DemocratEvents:
- Texas annexation
- Mexican War
- President: Zachary TaylorDates: 1849 - 1850Party: WhigRemember:
- Mexican War Hero
- Staunch Unionist
- President: Franklin Pierce Dates: 1853 - 1857Party: DemocratEvents:
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Gadsden Purchase
- President: Abraham LincolnDates: 1861 - 1865Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Secession and Civil War
- Emancipation Proclamation
- President: Andrew Johnson: Dates: 1865 - 1869Party: DemocratEvents:
- 13th and 14th amendments
- Radical Reconstruction
- Presidency ended with impeachment
- President: Ulysses GrantDates: 1869 - 1877Party: RepublicanEvents:
- 15th amendment
- Panic of 1873
- President: Chester ArthurDates: 1881 - 1885Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Standard Oil trust created
- Edison lights up New York City
- President: Grover ClevelandDates: 1885 - 1889 (1st term), 1893 - 1897 (2nd term)Party: DemocratEvents:
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Dawes Act
- Panic of 1893
- Pullman Strike
- President: Benjamin HarrisonDates: 1889-1893Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Closure of the frontier
- President: Theodore RooseveltDates: 1901 - 1909Party: RepublicanRemember:
- Progressivism
- Square Deal
- Big Stick Diplomacy
- President: William Howard TaftDates: 1909 - 1913Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Dollar diplomacy
- NAACP founded
- President: Woodrow WilsonDates: 1913 - 1921Party: DemocratEvents:
- WWI - 1914 - 1918
- League of Nations
- 18th and 19th amendments
- Segregation of federal offices
- First Red Scare
- President: Warren HardingDates: 1921 - 1923Party: RepublicanEvents
- "Return to normalcy"
- Isolationism
- Tea Pot Dome scandal
- Prohibition
- President: Calvin CoolidgeDates: 1923 - 1929Party: RepublicanRemember:
- Small-government (laissez-faire) conservative
- President: Herbert HooverDates: 1929 - 1933Party: RepublicanKey facts:
- "American individualism"
- Stock Market Crash
- Dust Bowl
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- President: Franklin Delano RooseveltDates: 1933 - 1945Party: DemocratEvents:
- New Deal
- WWII
- Japanese Internment
- "Fireside Chats"
- President: Dwight EisenhowerDates: 1953 - 1961Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Second Red Scare
- Highway Act and suburbanization ("white flight")
- Farewell Address warning of the military industrial complex
- President: John KennedyDates: 1961 - 1963Party: DemocratEvents:
- Camelot
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Space program
- Peace Corps
- President: Lyndon JohnsonDates: 1963 - 1969Party: DemocratEvents:
- Civil and Voting Rights acts
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Great Society
- President: Richard NixonDates: 1969 - 1974Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Environmental Protection Act
- China visit
- Moon Landing
- Watergate scandal
- President: Gerald FordDates: 1974 - 1977Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Pardoning of Nixon
- OPEC crisis
- President: Jimmy CarterDates: 1977 - 1981Party: DemocratEvents:
- stagflation / energy crisis
- Iran hostage crisis
- Camp David Accords
- President: Ronald ReaganDates: 1981 - 1989Party: RepublicanEvents:
- Conservative revolution
- Iran-Contra scandal
- President: George H. W. BushDates: 1989 - 1993Party: Republican
- President: Bill ClintonDates: 1993 - 2001Party: DemocratEvents:
- NAFTA
- Lewinsky scandal and impreachment
- President: George W. BushDates: 2001 - 2008Party: RepublicanEvents:
- War on terrorism
- Patriot Act
- Tax cuts
- "No Child Left Behind"
- President: Barack ObamaDates: 2008 - 2017Party: DemocratEvents:Affordable Care Act
- President: Millard FillmoreDates: 1850 - 1853Party: WhigEvents:
- Compromise of 1850