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1789-1797
Political Party: NONE
Key Events: Bill of Rights, Whiskey Rebellion, cotton gin invented. |
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1797-1801
Political Party: Federalist
Key Events: XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts. |
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1801-1809
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Key Events: Marbury V. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807. |
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1809-1817
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Key Events: War of 1812, American System. |
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1817-1825
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Key Events: Industrialization, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine. |
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1825-1829
Political Party: Democratic-Republicans
Key Events: Erie Canal Finished, Tariff of Abominations, Corrupt Bargain. |
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1829-1837
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Nullification and bank war, Jacksonian Democracy, Indian Removal Act, American System. |
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1837-1841
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Trail of Tears (Started by Jackson, Panic of 1837 (Started by Jackson) |
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1841 for 1 month
Political Party: Whig
Key Events: First President to die in office. |
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1841-1845
Political Party: Whig
Key Events: Irish and German immigrants, Oregon Trail. |
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1845-1849
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Texas annexation and the Mexican War, Gold Rush, Seneca Falls Convention. |
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1849-1850
Political Party: Whig
Key Events: Fugitive Slave Act. |
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1850-1853
Political Party: Whigs
Key Events: Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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1853-1857
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Bleeding Kansas, Gadsden Purchase |
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1857-1861
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Dred Scott case, Harper's Ferry raid. |
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1861-1865
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Secession and Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, first President assassinated. |
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1865-1869
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: 13th and 14th amendments, Radical Reconstruction, impeachment trial, sharecropping in South increases. |
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1869-1877
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: 15th amendment, transcontinental railroad, Panic of 1873, Battle of Little Big Horn, corruption in the second Grant administration. |
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1877-1881
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Compromise of 1877, labor unions and strikes. |
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1881
Political Party: Republican
Key Events:Got Assassinated |
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1881-1885
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Tariff of 1883, Pendleton Service Act, Standard Oil trust created, Edison lights up New York City. |
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1885-1889
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Dawes Act, Samuel Gompers and AFL. |
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1889-1893
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Wounded Knee Massacre, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Populism and Hull House founded. |
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1893-1897
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Plessy V. Ferguson, Pullman Strike, Tammany Hall. |
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1897-1901
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Age of New Immigrants (southern and eastern Europe, and Asia), Spanish-American War, Open Door Policy, Annexation of Hawaii. |
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1901-1909
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Progressivism, Square Deal, Big Stick Diplomacy. |
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1909-1913
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Dollar diplomacy, NAACP founded. |
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1913-1921
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: WWI and League of Nations, 18th and 19th amendments (prohibition, women's suffrage) |
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1921-1923
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Tea Pot Dome Scandal, cars and planes alter America. |
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1923-1929
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance |
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1929-1933
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Hawley-Smooth Tariff (Highest import tariff). |
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1933-1945
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: 1st and 2nd New Deal, WWII and Holocaust, Japanese Internment. Camps |
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1945-1953
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: A-Bomb and Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program), Cold War begins, Korean War, United Nations is created. |
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1953-1961
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: McCarthyism, Brown V. Board of Education, Highway Act, increase in people living in suburb, rock 'n' roll and youth culture. |
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1961-1963
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: New Frontier Policies, March on Washington, Cuban Missile Crisis, Space Race, assassination. |
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1963-1969
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: Civil and Voting Rights Act, MLK assassinated, escalation in Vietnam, anti-war and counter culture, "Great Society" policies. |
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1969-1974
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Feminism rises, environmentalism, U.S. pull out of Vietnam, first presidential China visit, Watergate and resignation, Saturday Night Massacre. |
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1974-1977
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Pardons Nixon, "WIN" (Whip Inflation Now) |
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1977-1981
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: stagflation, energy crisis, hostages in Iran, Camp David Accords |
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1981-1989
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Rise of conservatism, Cold War ends, "New Federalism" policies, Iran-Contra Affair. |
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1989-1993
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: Persian Gulf War, gridlock, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm. |
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1993-2001
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: NAFTA, impeachment trial. |
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2001-2009
Political Party: Republican
Key Events: War on terrorism, Patriot Act, invasion of Iraq. |
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2009-
Political Party: Democrat
Key Events: First African American President, Obama-care. |
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