Presidency Charts
Presidency Charts
Pinckney’s Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
Farewell Address
Presidency Chart – Adams (1796 - 1801)
Foreign Problems
Problems with France
XYZ Affair
Adams’ Actions
Resolution
Sedition Act
Naturalization Act
Twelfth Amendment
Foreign Problems
Conflict with the Barbary Pirates (1801 – 05)
Major Events
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810) (Berlin and Milan Decrees and Orders in Council)
War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
Domestic Issues
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Social/Economic/Religious Changes
Presidency Chart – John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Impact of Jackson
Strengthening the presidency
Effects
Foreign Affairs
The Texas Question: Should the US annex Texas?
Presidency Chart – William Henry Harrison (1841) and John Tyler (1841-1845)
Election of 1840
Election of 1844
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Election of 1848
Compromise of 1850
Election of 1852
Bleeding Kansas
Ostend Manifesto
Presidency Chart – James Buchanan (15th) (1857 - 1861)
Election of 1856
LeCompton Constitution
Panic of 1857
Crittenden Compromise
Presidency Chart – Abraham Lincoln (16th) (1861 - 1865)
Election of 1864
Charles Sumner
Edwin Stanton
Johnson’s plan
Ex Parte Milligan (1866) - Supreme Court ruled that military trials of civilians were illegal unless the
civil courts are inoperative or the region is under martial law.
Presidency Chart – Ulysses S. Grant (18th) (1869 - 1877)
Credit Mobilier Scandal - A construction company owned by the larger stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railroad. After Union Pacific received the government contract to build the transcontinental railroad, it "hired" Credit Mobilier
to do the actual construction, charging the federal government nearly twice the actual cost of the project. When the scheme was
discovered, the company tried to bribe Congress with gifts of stock to stop the investigation. This precipitated the biggest
bribery scandal in U.S. history, and led to greater public awareness of government corruption.
Whiskey Ring - During the Grant administration, a group of officials were importing whiskey and using their
offices to avoid paying the taxes on it, cheating the treasury out of millions of dollars.
Boss Tweed - Large political boss and head of Tammany Hall, he controlled New York and believed in "Honest
Graft".
Half-Breeds
Mugwumps
In re Debs (1895)
In re Debs (1895)
Boxer Rebellion
Progressive Era
Departments of Commerce and Labor Created Panama Canal Zone acquired (1904)
Industrial Workers of the World formed (1905) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
NM and AZ admitted
Conservation
Continuation of TR’s policies
Bureau of Mines
Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
Dollar Diplomacy
Sixteenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Purchase of Virgin Islands
Nineteenth Amendment
Zimmermann Telegram
Child Labor Laws
Schenck v. US (1919)
World War One
Abrams v. US (1919)
Domestic Polices to run the war
War Industries Board (Baruch)
Fuel Administration
RR Administration (McAdoo)
National War Labor Board
Poets
T.S. Elliot
Ezra Pound
e.e. cummings
Novelists
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
Sinclair Lewis
William Faulkner
H.L. Mencken
Harlem Renaissance
“The Crisis” by W.E.B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes
Zora Heale Hurston
Alain Locke “The New Negro”
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
Hoover Dam
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
Presidency Chart – Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd) (1933-1945)
The Election of 1932 The Election of 1940
20th Amendment
First New Deal – First Hundred Days
Bank Holiday
21st Amendment
FDIC
CCC
AAA
NIRA
Glass Stegall Banking Act
WPA
SEC
TVA
CWA
Home Owners Loan Corporation
1934
“Share the Wealth” society founded by Huey Long
Indian Reorganization Act
1935
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. US declares NRA unconstitutional
Father Coughlin
Francis Townsend
Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act
Revenue Act
1936
United States v. Butler declares AAA unconstitutional
WWII
Internment Camps
Midway
Invasion of Sicily
Casablanca Conference
Teheran Conference
D-Day
Yalta Conference
Battle of the Bulge
Death of FDR
McCarthyism
Trends
Affluent Society
Rise of Suburbia
Baby Boom
Presidency Chart – John F. Kennedy (35th) (1961-1963)
Election of 1960
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Proposals of a tax cut and for civil rights
Alliance for Progress How Bobby Kennedy used the Justice Dept. to
help with civil rights
Peace Corps
Steel Price Rollback
Vietnam (See Vietnam Chart)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Escalation
23rd Amendment
Assassination of Diem
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Warren Commission
Presidency Chart – Lyndon B. Johnson (36th) (1963-1969)
Election of 1964
Domestic Policy Foreign Policy
Tax cut Vietnam
Medicaid
Miranda v. Arizona
25th Amendment
Domestic Policy
Apollo 11
Foreign Policy
Vietnam (see Vietnam Chart) Appoints Warren Burger Chief Justice
Vietnamization
Roe v. Wade
My Lai
U.S. v. N.Y. Times (Pentagon Papers)
Invasion of Cambodia
Repeal of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Clean Air Act and EPA established (1970)
Cease fire agreement (Jan., 1973) War on Inflation (1971) wage and price controls
Coverup
Détente
Saturday Night Massacre
Resignation
Presidency Chart – Gerald Ford (38th) (74 – 1977)
Election of 1976 Domestic Policy
Pardon of Richard Nixon
Stagflation
Foreign Policy
Camp David Accords
Three Mile Island
Carter Doctrine
Presidency Chart – Ronald Reagan (40th) (81 – 1989)
Election of 1980 Election of 1984
Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy “Reaganomics”
Reagan Doctrine
“New Federalism”
Nicaragua
Tower Report
Star Wars