Most Important US Presidents

By ciellerf

  • George Washington

    First President of Us
    Important precedents such as 2 term presidenccy, warned against getting too involved in foreign affairs
    French Revolution
    Bank of US
    Whiskey Rebellion

  • John Adams

    FEDERALIST
    XYZ Affair
    Alien and Sedition Acts
    Midnight Judges
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    Antebellum Era

  • Thomas Jefferson

    • Marbury v. Madison, 1803
    • Louisiana Purchase, 1803
    • Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804
    • 12th Amendment, 1804 (changed how presidents and vp are voted on
    • Embargo Act, 1807

  • James Madison

    • "War Hawks," 1811-1812
    • War of 1812
    • Hartford Convention, 1814

  • Andrew Jackson

    Indian Removal Act
    Maysville Road Veto
    Nat Turner Revolt
    Nullification Process
    Destroyed BUS
    Panic of 1837 (made ppl hate him b/c caused by BUS thing)

  • James K Polk

    • Manifest Destiny
    • Texas becomes a state, 1845
    • Oregon boundary settled, 1846
    • Mexican War, 1846-1848
    • Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, 1848
    • Wilmot Proviso

  • Abraham Lincoln

    • Civil War, 1861-1865
    • Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
    • Homestead Act, 1862
    • Morill Act, 1862 (created ag colleges)
    • Assassinated April 14th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth
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    Civil War

  • Andrew Johnson

    • 13th Amendment, 1865
    • 14th Amendment, 1868
    • Reconstruction Act, 1867
    • Tenure of Office Act, 1867
    • Impeachment Trial, 1868
    • Formation of KKK
    • Adoption of Black Codes in the South
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    Reconstruction

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    Progressive Era

  • Teddy Rosevelt

    • Panama Canal, 1903-1914
    • "Square Deal"
    • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
    • Gentleman's Agreement (Japan), 1904
    • Pure Food & Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, “Muckrakers", 1906
    • Trust-busting
    • Conservation

  • Woodrow Wilson

    • Underwood Tariff, 1913
    • 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
    • Federal Reserve System, 1913
    • Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
    • World War 1
    • "Fourteen Points," January 1917
    • Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920
    • "New Freedom"
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    GREAT WAR

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    Great Depression

  • FDR

    • New Deal
    • Bank holiday, AAA, NRA, WPA, FDIC, TVA, Social Security, Wagner Act
    • World War 2
    • Cash & Carry, Lend-Lease, Atlantic Charter, D-Day, Manhattan Project
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    World War 2

  • Harry Truman

    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945
    • Taft-Harley Act, 1947
    • Truman Doctrine, 1947
    • Marshall Plan, 1947
    • NATO, 1949
    • Korean War, 1950-1953
    • "Fair Deal"
    Berlin Airlift
    Chinese REvolution
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    Cold War

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    • 22nd Amendment
    • Brown v. Board of Education, 1958
    • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
    • Suez Crisis, 1956
    • Eisenhower Doctrine
    • Creation of NASA & NDEA
    U-2 Incident ends "peaceful coexistnence"
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    Civil Rights Movement

  • JFK

    • Alliance for Progress
    • Baker v. Carr, 1962
    • Peace Corps
    • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    • "New Frontier"
    • Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
    • Assassinated by Oswald

  • LBJ

    • The "Cold War"
    • Cuban Policy
    • Income tax cut
    • Civil Rights Act, 1964
    • Voting Rights Act, 1965
    • Anti-Poverty Act, 1964
    • Medicare & Medicaid
    • "Great Society"

  • Richard M. Nixon

    Imperial Presidency"
    • Landing on the moon, July 1969
    • Woodstock, August 1969
    • Détente: China (1972), SALT Treaty with USSR (1972), Vietnamization
    • War Powers Act 1974
    • Pentagon Papers, 1971
    • “Shuttle diplomacy" in Middle East
    • Watergate; Nixon resigns, 1974

  • Jimmy Carter

    • Panama Canal Treaty, 1977
    • Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Prize, 1979
    • Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979
    • Afghanistan invasion by USSR, 1979
    • "Stagflation"