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ER6 Presidents
Academic team study set for American Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st President 1789-1797 No party Shay's Rebellion & Whiskey Rebellion Warned against alliances and political parties | George Washington |
| 2nd President 1797-1801 Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts | John Adams |
| 3rd President 1801-1809 Democratic-Republican Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act | Thomas Jefferson |
| 4th President 1809-1817 Democratic-Republican War of 1812 | James Madison |
| 5th President 1817-1825 Democratic-Republican "Era of Good Feelings" | James Monroe |
| 6th President 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican Later served as | John Quincy Adams |
| 7th President 1829-1837 Democratic-Republican/Democrat Abolished Bank of the United States Trail of Tears "Old Hickory" | Andrew Jackson |
| 8th President 1837-1841 Democrat "Red Fox" & "Old Kinderhook" English was his second language | Martin Van Buren |
| 9th President 1841 Whig Died after just over one month in office "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" | William Henry Harrison |
| 10th President 1841-1845 Whig/No party 1st Vice President to assume presidency "His Accidency" | John Tyler |
| 11th President 1845-1849 Democrat Mexican-American War Manifest Destiny Gained Oregon Territory | James K. Polk |
| 12th President 1849-1850 Whig Former general during Mexican-American War Died while in office "Old Rough and Ready" | Zachary Taylor |
| 13th President 1850-1853 Whig One of the most forgotten presidents | Millard Fillmore |
| 14th President 1853-1857 Democrat | Franklin Pierce |
| 15th President 1857-1861 Democrats Former Secretary of State Influenced the Dred Scott decision | James Buchanan |
| 16th President 1861-1865 Republican 1st president to be assassinated (by John Wilkes Booth) Civil War "The Railsplitter" and "Honest Abe" Debated Stephen Douglas | Abraham Lincoln |
| 17th President 1865-1869 Democrat 1st president to be impeached Oversaw the beginning of Reconstruction | Andrew Johnson |
| 18th President 1869-1877 Republican Former Civil War general Corrupt Cabinet members | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 19th President 1877-1881 Republican Ended Reconstruction "Corrupt Bargain" "His Fraudulency" | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| 20th President 1881 Republican Former Civil War general Assassinated by Charles Guiteau over political appointment | James Garfield |
| 21st President 1881-1885 Republican Former Commissioner of New York Port Authority Assumed presidency after Garfield's assassination | Chester A. Arthur |
| 22nd/24th President 1885-1889, 1893-1897 Democrat Former mayor of Buffalo, NY Only president with nonconsecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| 23rd President 1889-1893 Republican Grandson of shortest-term president | Benjamin Harrison |
| 25th President 1897-1901 Republican Defeated William Jennings Bryan Spanish-American War Assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz | William McKinley |
| 26th President 1901-1909 Republican "Trustbuster" Created 1st national park (Yellowstone) | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 27th President 1909-1913 Republican Later served as Chief Justice of Supreme Court Got stuck in White House bathtub Busted more trusts than Teddy Roosevelt | William Howard Taft |
| 28th President 1913-1921 Democrat Beat Taft and Roosevelt World War I "He kept us out of war" Fourteen Points Established League of Nations (US didn't join) | Woodrow Wilson |
| 29th President 1921-1923 Republican "Return to normalcy" Teapot Dome Scandal | Warren G. Harding |
| 30th President 1923-1929 Republican "Silent Cal" President for most of Roaring Twenties | Calvin Coolidge |
| 31st President 1929-1933 Republican Oversaw relief efforts after World War I President during Black Tuesday stock market crash Shantytowns named for him | Herbert Hoover |
| 32nd President 1933-1945 Democrat Served four terms - most of any president New Deal President during almost all of World War II | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 33rd President 1945-1953 Democrat Surprise 1948 victory over Thomas Dewey From Missouri "The buck stops here" | Harry S. Truman |
| 34th President 1953-1961 Republican Former World War II general Korean War Warned against "military-industrial complex" | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 35th President 1961-1963 Democrat Cuban Missile Crisis & Bay of Pigs Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald | John F. Kennedy |
| 36th President 1963-1969 Democrat Former Texas senator Vietnam War Great Society | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 37th President 1969-1974 Republican "Tricky Dick" Lost 1960 election to Kennedy Ended US involvement in Vietnam Watergate - only US president ever to resign from office | Richard Nixon |
| 38th President 1974-1977 Republican Assumed presidency after Nixon's resignation Pardoned Nixon | Gerald R. Ford |
| 39th President 1977-1981 Democrat Former Georgia peanut farmer "Malaise" President during Iran hostage crisis | Jimmy Carter |
| 40th President 1981-1989 Republican Former actor "The Gipper" Almost assassinated by William Brinkley "Morning in America" "Trickle-down" (supply-side) economics "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" | Ronald Reagan |
| 41st President 1989-1993 Republican "Read my lips - no new taxes" Gulf War | George H.W. Bush |
| 42nd President 1993-2001 Democrat Impeached after scandal with Monica Lewinsky Camp David Accords and NAFTA | Bill Clinton |
| 43rd President 2001-2009 Republican Lost popular vote to Al Gore President after 9-11 | George W. Bush |
| 44th President 2009-2017 Democrat "Yes We Can" Healthcare law named for him First African-American president | Barack Obama |
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