[The Young Republic, 1788-1817] (Presidents 1-4)



Reference Sheet. Abbreviated List of Significant Events[The Young Republic, 1788-1817] (Presidents 1-4) Period 3: 1754-1800: Independence & the Birth of a NationPeriod 4: 1800-1848: The Expansion of Democracy, the Economy & the Nation1.? George Washington, 1789-1797 1791 Bill of Rights addedFirst Bank of United States , 1791-1811 Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 Jay Treaty with England, 1795 Farewell Address, 1796 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency (include year/years of each for all following entries) Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 Washington led the US Army to western PA to put down a small rebellion by western farmers over taxes on whiskey, which was a significant income maker for farmers. This is the first event that clearly demonstrated the strength of new federal government to enforce its laws.2.? John Adams, 1797-1801 XYZ Affair, 1797 Alien Act & Sedition Act, 1798 Kentucky (Jefferson) and Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, 1798Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyAlien Act & Sedition Act, 1798 3.? Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809Marbury v. Madison, 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1803, Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1805 Non-Intercourse Act, 1809 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency4.? James Madison, 1809-1817"War Hawks," 1811-1812 War of 1812 Hartford Convention, 1814 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency(Presidents 5-8) Period 4: 1800-1848: The Expansion of Democracy, the Economy & the Nation[Era of Good Feelings and the Era of the Common Man, 1815-1840] 5.? James Monroe, 1817-1825McCullough v. Maryland 1819Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819Missouri Compromise, 1820 Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency6.? John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829"Corrupt Bargain" 1824Clay’s “American System” Tariff of Abominations 1828Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency 7.? Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831 Tariffs of 1832 and 1833 & Compromise of 1833Veto of The 2nd Bank of the United States (due to expire in 1836)Formation of the Whig Party, 1832Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency8.? Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841Trail of Tears, 1838The Amistad Incident, 1839Panic of 1837 & the Independent Treasury System (1840)Election of 1840Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency(Presidents 9-13)Period 5: 1844-1877: Manifest Destiny, Civil War & Reconstruction[Ante-Bellum Period, 1840-1860] 9.? William Henry Harrison, 1841.. why so short?Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency10. John Tyler, 1841-1845: 1841 and after: Oregon Fever1842 Aroostook War and Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842 End of Second Seminole War (1845 –Admission of Florida)1845Annexation of TexasPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency11.? James K. Polk, 1845-18491846 Manifest Destiny – term first used. 1846-48 Mexican-American War 1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo1848 Seneca Falls Convention Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency12.? Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850…why so short?Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency13.? Millard Fillmore, 1850-18531850 Compromise of 1850, including the Fugitive Slave Law1850 Daniel Webster’s “Seventh of March” speech1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency(Presidents 14-18)Period 5: 1844-1877: Manifest Destiny, Civil War & ReconstructionPeriod 6: 1865-1898: The Gilded Age of Industrial, Urban and Political Transformation14.? Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 1853 Gadsden Purchase1854 Kansas-Nebraska Bill & popular sovereignty 1854 Republican Party Organized1856 Bleeding Kansas fightingPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency15.? James Buchanan, 1857-18611857 Dred Scott decision 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Lincoln’s House Divided Speech)1859 John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA1860 South Carolina’s Ordinance of SecessionPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency[Civil War, 1861-1865]16.? Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865Nov 1860 – Mar 1861 – Secession of 7 southern states The Trent Incident (or affair) with Great Britain1862 Homestead Act1863 Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect1863 Gettysburg Address1863 Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (his Reconstruction plan)1864 Lincoln vetoes Wade- Davis Bill (Congress’s Reconstruction plan)1865 Freedman’s Bureau Established1865 13th Amendment adopted by CongressPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency[Reconstruction, 1865-1877]17.? Andrew Johnson, 1865 - 18691865 13th Amendment ratified by the states 1865. 1865 Black Codes established in many southern states1866 Second Freedman’s Bureau Act (passed over Johnson’s veto)1866 Civil Rights Act (passed over Johnson’s veto)1867 Reconstruction Acts1867 14th Amendment passed. 1868 Impeachment and trial of President Andrew JohnsonPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency18. Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-18771869 First Transcontinental Railroad completed1870 15th Amendment 1872 Amnesty Act1873 Coinage Act (Crime of ’73)1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal1875 Whiskey Ring Scandal1877 Compromise of 1877Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyPeriod 6: 1865-1898: The Gilded Age of Industrial, Urban and Political TransformationGilded Age, 1877-1900 [#19-25]19. Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-18811877 Troops withdrawn from the South1877 Nez Perce War1877 Great Railroad Strike 1878 Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinageof silver)Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency20. James A Garfield, 1881Assassination Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency21. Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885Pendleton Act, 1883 (civil service)Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889Haymarket Riot, 1886American Federation of Labor, 1886Wabash v. Illinois, 1886Interstate Commerce Act, 1887Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyPeriod 7: 1890-1945: Imperialism, Wars and Depression23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-18931889 ND, SD, Montana, WA becomestates, 1890 Idaho & WY become statesSherman Anti-trust Act, 1890McKinley Tariff, 1890Populist Party (Omaha) Platform, 1892Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 (2nd term) Panic of 1893Hawaiian incident, 1893Pullman Strike, 1894Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency25. William McKinley, 1897-1901? Spanish-American War, 1898? Open Door Policy, 1899? Boxer Rebellion, 1900? McKinley was assassinated, 1901Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyProgressive Age, 1900-1920 [#26-28]26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908Panama Canal, 1903-1914Newlands Act 1902Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904Gentleman's Agreement (Japan), 1904Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act, 1906Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913Trust-bustingPinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909(conservation v. reclamation)"Dollar Diplomacy"Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921Underwood Tariff, 191316th, 17th, 18th, and 19th AmendmentsFederal Reserve System, 1913Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914World War I"Fourteen Points," January 1917Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920"New Freedom"Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyRoaring Twenties, 1920-1929 [#29-31]29. Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923Teapot Dome ScandalWashington Conference, 1921-1922Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929Dawes Plan 1924National Origins Act 1924 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency31. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933Stock market Crash, 1929Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyGreat Depression, New Deal and WW2, 1920-194532. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945The New Deal programs 1933-38(Alphabet Soup) Pearl Harbor, 1941World War II 1939/1941-1945Cash & Carry, Lend-LeaseAtlantic Charter 1941Manhattan Project 1942 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyPeriod 8 1945-1980 The Cold WarThe Early Cold War, 1945-1961 [#33-35]33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945Taft-Harley Act, 1947Truman Doctrine, 1947Marshall Plan, 1947NATO, 1949Korean War, 1950-1953"Fair Deal"Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency34. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-196122nd AmendmentBrown v. Board of Education, 1954Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationSuez Crisis, 1956Eisenhower DoctrineCreation of NASA Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency35. John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963Bay of Pigs, 1961Peace Corps founded 1961Baker v. Carr, 1962Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty 1963Assassinated by OswaldPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyThe Cold War: Vietnam Era & Détente [#36-37]36. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1968Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1963Civil Rights Act, 1964Voting Rights Act, 1965"Great Society"Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency37. Richard M. Nixon, 1968-1974Landing on the moon, July 1969Woodstock, August 1969Pentagon Papers, 1971 (New York Times) Détente: China (1972), SALT Treatywith USSR (1972), VietnamizationWar Powers Act 1974 “Shuttle diplomacy" in Middle EastWatergate; Nixon resigns, 1974Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyRetrenchment & Malaise / Middle East problems [#38-39]38. Gerald Ford, 1974-1976 (1st appointed President)Pardons Richard NixonOPEC oil embargo, 1973-74Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency39. Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981Panama Canal Treaty, 1977Egypt and Israel peace treaty; Sadatand Begin win the Nobel Prize, 1979Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979Afghanistan invasion by USSR, 1979Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyConservative America in the Ascent [#40-42]40. Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989VP - George Bush"Supply-side economics"Iran-Contra AffairSandra Day O'Connor, 1st womanappointed to the Supreme CourtPolitical PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency41. George Bush, 1989- 1993Savings and Loan Scandal, 1990Berlin Wall came down & dissolutionof the USSR; End of Cold WarOperation Desert Storm, 1990-91Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-Presidency42. Bill Clinton, 1993-2001North American Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA), 1993Air strikes in Bosnia, 1994Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, 1998Air strikes on Serbia, 1999 Political PartyTwo Significant Jobs or Actions pre-PresidencyThen some other guys come along43 George W. Bush44 Barack Obama 45 Donald Trump ................
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