AP US History
Review by Presidential Administration
What were the details and the significance of each major event?
1. George Washington1789-1797
Sec. of State: Jefferson
“ “ Treasury: Hamilton
Major events:Judiciary Act of 1789
Tariff Act of 1789
Citizen Genet Episode 1793
Whiskey Rebellion 1794
Jay Treaty w/ England 1795
Pinckney Treaty w/ Spain 1795
Treaty of Greenville 1795
Farewell Address 1796
First Bank of the US (strict vs. broad construction)
2. John Adams1797-1801
Federalist
VP: Jefferson – Explain how a Republican opposition candidate became VP.
Major events:XYZ Affair 1797
Quasi War 1798
Alien and Sedition Acts 1798
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions (states’ rights & nullification)
Judiciary Act of 1801 (“midnight appointments”)
3. Thomas Jefferson1801-1809
Republican
VP – Aaron Burr
Sec. of State: Madison
Major events:Marbury vs. Madison 1803
Louisiana Purchase 1803
Twelfth Amendment 1804
Embargo Act of 1807
Non-Intercourse Act 1809
4. James Madison1809-1817
Republican
VP – Clinton
Sec. of State: Monroe
Major events:Macon’s Bill NO. 2
Pan-Indian Resistance Movement
Battle of Tippecanoe 1811
War Hawks
Burning of Washington, DC
Hartford Convention 1814
Treaty of Ghent 1814
Battle of New Orleans 1815
Second Bank of the US 1816
Tariff of 1816
5. James Monroe1817-1825
Republican
VP – Tompkins
Sec. of State – John Q. Adams
Major events:McCulloch vs. Maryland 1819
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward 1819
Gibbons vs. Ogden 1824
Trans-Continental Treaty (Adams-Onis Treaty) of 1819
Panic of 1819 (causes and outcomes)
Missouri Compromise 1820
Monroe Doctrine 1823
Election of 1824 (candidates, outcome, etc)
6. John Quincy Adams1825-1829
National Republican
VP: Calhoun
Sec. of State: Clay
Major events:New York’s Erie Canal 1825
Tariff of Abominations 1828
Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest 1828
7. Andrew Jackson1829-1837
Democrat
VP: Calhoun; Van Buren
Major events:“Jacksonian Democracy”
Second Great Awakening
Spoils system
Indian Removal Act 1830
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
Worcester vs. Georgia 1832
Nullification Crisis
Bank War
Specie Circular of 1836
8. Martin Van Buren1837-1841
Democrat
VP: Johnson
Major events:Panic of 1837 (causes and outcomes)
Gag rule
Rise of Whig Party
Election of 1840 (candidates, characteristics, outcome)
9. William Henry Harrison “Tippecanoe”1841
Whig
VP – Tyler “His Accidency”
Sec. of State: Daniel Webster
Major events:His death and the political problems it caused
10. John Tyler1841-1845
Anti-Jackson Democrat that ran as VP on Harrison’s Whig ticket
Sec. of State: Webster
Major events:Webster Ashburton Treaty 1842
Tyler’s vetoes of Clay’s “American System”
Definition: Amer. System included nat’l bank, tariff, & federally funded
internal improvements, like roads, etc)
Election of 1844 (party platforms, slogans, outcomes)
Joint resolution regarding Texas status 1845
11. James K. Polk1845-1849
Democrat
VP: Dallas
Major events:Coining of phrase: Manifest Destiny 1845
Mexican American War
Declaration of War 1846 (events and reasons leading to declaration)
Wilmot Proviso 1846
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 (terms)
General outcomes of the war
Founding of Douglass’ anti-slavery paper, The North Star 1847
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
12. Zachary Taylor1849-1850
Whig
VP: Fillmore
Major events:Election of 1848 (candidates, party platforms, outcomes, etc)
California application for statehood 1849/50
His death
13. Millard Fillmore1850-1853
Whig
Sec. of State: Webster
Major events:Compromise of 1850 (be specific; include component parts)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852
Election of 1852
14. Franklin Pierce1853-1857
Democrat
VP – King
Major events:Ostend Manifesto 1854
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
Bleeding Kansas
Election of 1856 (candidates, outcome)
15. James Buchanan1857-1861
Democrat
Major events:Dred Scott Case (background, multi-part decision, court reasoning) 1857
Lincoln Douglas Debates 1858
John Brown’s Raid 1859
Election of 1860 (candidates, party platforms, outcome, etc)
Crittendon Plan 1860
16. Abraham Lincoln1861-65
Republican
VP: Johnson
Sec. of State: Seward
Major events:Fort Sumter 1861
Emancipation Proclamation 1862/1863
Suspension of habeus corpus 1861….
Homestead Act 1862
New York Draft Riot 1863
Lincoln’s Assassination April 14, 1865
17. Andrew Johnson1865-1869
Republican
Sec. of State: Seward
Major events:13th amendment 1865
Passage of Black Codes in many southern states
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Military Reconstruction Acts 1867
Tenure of Office Act 1867
Impeachment trial
14th amendment 1868
18. Ulysses S. Grant1869-1877
Republican
Major events:15th amendment 1870
Completion of transcontinental railroad (Union Pacific & Central Pacific) 1869
Tammany Hall corruption (Boss Tweed)
Depression of 1873
Slaughterhouse cases 1873
United States vs. Cruikshank 1876
19. Rutherford B. Hayes1877-1881
Republican
VP – Wheeler
Major events:Election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877
Great Uprising 1877
Bland Allison Act 1878
20. James Garfield1881 (March 4-Sept. 19)
Republican
VP: Arthur
Major events:His assassination
21. Chester Arthur1881-1885
Republican
Major events:Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883
22. Grover Cleveland1885-1889
Democrat
Major events:Haymarket Square Riot 1886
Wabash v. Illinois 1886
Dawes Act 1887
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
Republican
Major events:Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890
McKinley Tariff Act 1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890
Omaha Platform (Populist Party) 1892
Homestead Strike 1892
24. Grover Cleveland1893-1897
Democrat
Major events:Panic of 1893
Pullman Strike 1894
Hawaiian takeover 1893
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute 1895
25. William McKinley1897-1901
Republican
VP – Hobart & Theodore Roosevelt
Sec. of State: Hay
Major events:Explosion of USS Maine 1898
De Lome Letter
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Treaty of Paris 1898
Annexation of Philippines
Open Door Policy 1899
Boxer Rebellion 1900
McKinley’s assassination 1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909
Republican
Sec. of State: Hay; Root
Major events:Panama Canal (1902-1914)
Roosevelt Corollary 1904
Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan 1907-08
Muckrakers, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Coal strike 1902
Trustbusting
Conservation of wilderness
27. William H. Taft1909-1913
Republican
Major events:Mann Elkins Act 1910
“Dollar diplomacy”
16th amendment 1913
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
Election of 1912 (candidates, party platforms, outcome, etc)
28. Woodrow Wilson1913-1921
Democrat
Sec. of State: Bryan & Lansing
Major events:“New Freedom” in election of 1912
Underwood-Simmons Tariff 1913
17th-19th amendments
Federal Reserve Act 1913
Federal Trade Commission 1914
Clayton Anti-trust Act 1914
Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Mexico, etc
Lusitania 1915
Fourteen Points 1917
Treaty of Versailles 1919
29. Warren Harding1921-23
Republican
VP – Coolidge
Sec. of Treasury: Mellon
Major events:Teapot Dome Scandal
Washington Naval Conference 1921
Emergency Quota Act 1921
30. Calvin Coolidge1923-1929
Republican
Sec. of State: Kellogg
Major events:National Origins Act 1924
Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
Scopes Trial 1925
31. Herbert Hoover1929-1933
Republican
Major events:Stock Market Crash 1929
Causes of the Great Depression
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1932
Bonus Army 1932
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt1933-1945
Democrat
VP: Garner, Wallace, Truman
Major events:First Hundred Days (give example of 1 act, too)
New Deal
Fireside chats
Second New Deal (give example of 1 act, too)
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 8802
GI Bill of Rights 1944
Yalta Conference 1945
33. Harry Truman1945-1953
Democrat
Major events:End of WWII (Atomic bombs)
Taft-Hartley Act 1947
Truman Doctrine 1947
Marshall Plan 1947
Berlin blockade 1948
NSC-68 1950
“Fair Deal”
Hollywood Ten 1947-50
22nd amendment 1951
34. Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961
Republican
VP: Nixon
Major events:Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56
Federal Highway Act of 1956
Little Rock Nine 1957
Sputnik 1957
NASA 1958
35. John F. Kennedy1961-63
Democrat
VP: Johnson
Major events:“New Frontier”
Limited Test Ban Treaty 1963
Cuban Missile Crisis 1963
Birmingham protests 1963
36. Lyndon Johnson1963-1969
Democrat
VP – Humphrey
Major events:Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson’s “War on Poverty”
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Tet Offensive 1968
Election of 1968 (Johnson’s absence, candidates, parties, outcomes, etc)
37. Richard Nixon1969-1974
Republican
VP: Agnew; Ford
Major events:Kent State shootings 1970
Vietnamization & Nixon Doctrine
SALT 1972
Détente
Pentagon Papers
Roe vs. Wade 1973
Resignation on August 8, 1974
38. Gerald Ford1974-77
Republican
First (and only) “appointed” president
Major events:Pardons Nixon
Stagflation
Fall of Saigon, April 1975
39. Jimmy Carter1977-1981
Democrat
Major events:Three Mile Island incident 1979
Camp David Agreement 1979
Iran Hostage Crisis 1979-81
40. Ronald Reagan1981-1989
Republican
VP – Bush
Major events:Economic Recovery and Tax Act 1981
Strategic Defense Initiative 1983
Iran-Contra Affair