I don't know if this helps, but... Washington (No party)
Hamilton established BUS No foreign entanglements (no long term
alliances in peacetime) Jay's treaty (British leaves forts on US
soil, British damages maritime US losses) Pinkney's Treaty (Spanish
clarifies south-western borders, free navigation of Mississippi)
Whiskey Rebellion (force to maintain order) Disliked formation of
parties 2 term "limit" Bill of Rights J. Adams (Federalist) Barbary
pirates (marine/navy founded) French Revolution XYZ Affairs
Convention of 1800, peace with France, alliance canceled, American
to pay damages to American shippers Alien and Sedition act (muzzle
law, increased naturalization period) [Virginia, Kentucky
Resolutions in response] Cabinet worked against him and with
Hamilton instead Jefferson (DemoRep) Embargo Act (forbidden
exports, tried to get France/Britain to respect US) Eliminated
whiskey tax Non-Intercourse Act - Embargo to France/Britain
Louisiana Purchase Peace Treaty with Tripoli Chesapeake Affair
Lewis and Clark Cumberland Road authorized Midnight judges (Marbury
vs Madison, judicial review) Madison (DemoRep) Macon's Bill No2 -
Lifts embargo for first country to repeal certain thingees
Protectionist Tariff of 1816 - British goods start flooding US
market, first protectionist tariff First Bank of United States'
charter ends, not renewed War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent - Ends War of
1812, "Not one inch of territory ceded or lost", armistice, Russia
needed help Battle of Tippecanoe (Tecumseh dies [Indians screwed],
Harrison gets famous) Battle of Horseshoe Bend (Jackson gets
famous) Battle of New Orleans (Jackson pop ^) Cumberland Road
construction begins Vetoes Bonus Bill (Internal improvements should
be done by state) Fletcher vs Peck (Legislatures could not mess
with contracts) Monroe (DemRep) Second Bank of United States Panic
of 1819 - Wildcat banks, too much land speculation Monroe Doctrine
- Hands off American continent Russo-American Treaty of 1824 -
Russia gets out of Oregon area Rush-Bagot agreement - stopped naval
buildup on Great Lakes Treaty of 1818 - Fixed northern boundary of
Louisiana Spain cedes Florida in exchange for Mexico Jackson
invades Florida Missouri Compromise (slave below 36'30, admit
Missouri/Maine) Gibbons v. Ogden - States couldn't regulate
interstate commerce Dartmouth College v. Woodward - states can't
mess with contracts Q. Adams (DemRep) Tariff of Abominations
Corrupt bargain, Clay becomes SecState Henry Clay throws election
to Adams Jackson (Demo) Pet banks, pulls money out of BUS Vetoes
vote to recharter BUS Tariff of 1832 - Lower than Abomination, but
seemed more permanent Compromise Tariff of 1833 Texas wins
independence Indian Removal Act Maysville Road veto - Strict
construction Specie Circular - attempted to discourage land spec,
paid hard money for hard land Calhoun (VP) writes South Carolina
Exposition, in response to Tariff of Abomination Hayne/Webster
Debate Spoils system Van Buren (Demo) Panic of 1837 - screwed Buren
over Independent Treasury Recognizes Republic of Texas, but doesn't
annex Harrison (Whig) Personality campaign Longest speech, shortest
term Tyler (Whig) Vetoed bank bills Vetoes a tariff bill
Webster-Ashburton treaty - Maine border dispute Texas annexed The
non-Whiggy Whig Polk (Dem) Tariff-for-revenue Bill - lowered avg
rates from 32% to 25% "Fifty-four forty or fight", but didn't
fight. War with Mexico - Got disputed land of Texas and California
CA, OR, Tariff, Independent Treasury California gold rush 1848
Taylor (Whig) Doesn't want Comp of 1850 Millard Fillmore (Whig)
Wants Comp of 1850 (CA free, Fugitive Slave Act) Pierce (Dem)
Ostend Manifesto - Sent diplomats to try to get Cuba from Spain but
Northerners found and failed Gadsden Purchase - create Pacific
Railroad and bought land from Mexico Commodore Perry arrives in
Japan Kansas-Nebraska Act - Nebraska: free, Kansas: slave but
northerners came into Kansas (Caused formation of Republicans)
Buchanan (Dem) financial crash of 1857 - North was hardest hit and
south thought they could live without the north (King Cotton)
Tariff of 1857 - lowest tariff since 1812 rate 20% Northerners
complained, financial crisis stuck soon after John Brown - martyr
for anti slavery forces. killed pro slavery person in Kansas
Lincoln Douglas Debates - duking it out for senate of Illinois
Douglas won but hurt his chances for Presidential election Dred
Scott Decision - slaves were considered to be property and couldn't
sue in federal court Lincoln (Whig) All other parties split
(Republican - first sectional party) Civil War Emancipation
Proclamation Crittenden compromise - 36 30 would be above would be
free and territory below later acquired would be slave - Lincoln
smacks it down Freedmen's Bureau - Education, and land for blacks.
suspend civil liberties during war Andrew Johnson (Dem running as
Rep) National Labor Union appears (dies under Grant) Seward buys
Alaska Midway Islands annexed 13th Amendment (free slaves) Civil
Rights Act (Citizenship and no black codes) 14th Amendment
(citizenship, roughly same as Civil Rights Act, but more permenent)
Impeached but acquited in Senate (see Tenure of Office Act) Ulysses
Grant (Rep) Panic of 1873 - railroad overspeculation Tariff of
1870, '72, '75 - Lowered rates and expanded free list ('72
continued expansion, '75 raises rates) Resumption Act - redeem
government loans in hard currency (step away from bimetallism)
Political corruption (Credit Mobilier scandal, Tweed Ring, Whiskey
Ring) Freedmen's Bureau expires 15th Amendment (voting) Force acts
(guarantee voting for blacks) Civil Rights Act of 1875 (full and
equal accomodations. ruled unconst by SC) Rutherford Hayes (Rep)
Bland-Allison Act - Treasury buys silver and makes silver dollars
(continued bimetallism) Hayes-Tilden standoff -> Compromise of
1877, end of military reconstruction Desert Land Act - gave land to
those who would irrigate for 3 years Timber and Stone Act - land
unsuitable for farming sold for mining and logging James Garfield
(Rep) Assasinated by "deranged office seeker", led to Pendleton Act
Chester Arthur (Rep) Tariff of 1875 - continued protectionist
principles Chinese Exclusion Act Pendleton Act (led to downfall of
patronage) Civil Rights Act of 1875 ruled unConst Grover Cleveland
(Dem) Interstate Commerce Act - rein in railroads (but commisioners
were all railroad people, so nothing happened) Knights of Labor
dissolved Dawes Severalty Act - Largely destroys Indian governments
Wabash case - defeat for populists who wanted to control railways
Benjamin Harrison (Rep) McKinley Tariff - Highest tariff in
American history up till then (48%) Sherman Anti-Trust Act -
Prohibited combinations in restraint of trade... would be used to
target unions though Sherman Silver Purchase Act - bimetallism
Pan-American conference - Worked with Latin-America to establish
treaties on trade "Billion Dollar Congress" Frontier line
disappears Pension Act 1980 - Give money to veterans (too much
money coming in) Hull Houses - help immigrants US Forest Service
established by Forest Reserve Act Populists organized Grover
Cleveland (Dem) Panic of 1893 (blamed on Sherman Silver Purchase
Act, which would be repealed) Wilson-Gorman Tariff - slightly
lowers McKinley rates, first income tax (ruled unConst) Hawaii
revolts, but Cleveland refuses to annex Venezulan border dispute
with Britain - "pulling the lion's tail" Labor unrest (Pullman
strike, Coxey's march on Washington) Plessy v Ferguson - "Seperate
but equal." William McKinley (Rep) Dingley Tariff - Highest of all
time, McKinley says "greatest piece of republican legislation"
(though he had campaigned on lower tariffs!) Gold Standard Act -
Stopped bimetallism Maine sunk Imperialism - Spanish-Amer War
(Teller Amendment), Hawaii Annexed, Dewey takes Manila
(Phillippines), Foraker Act creates Puerto Rican gov't Open Door
Note Yellow Journalism (Hyped Maine) Elkins Act - no rebates
Theodore Roosevelt (Rep) Northern Securities case - he didn't want
trusts out of control Panic of 1907 ("Roosevelt Panic")
Aldrich-Vreeland Act - increased money supply (banks could issue
notes) Panama Canal - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, Brit agree, Panama
revolt, Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty Expansionism - Platt Amendment
(Cubans get independence in name only) Roosevelt Corrollary - Big
Stick - Perdicaris Affair (person captured in Morocco, sent fleet
for their release), Algeciras Conference (open door in Morocco)
Russo-Japanese war - Portsmouth Peace Conference Great White Fleet
Root-Takahira Agreement - Status quo in Pacific, open door in China
3 C's (conservation, consumer, corporations) Hepburn - no free
passes and strengthens Interstate Commerce Commission Regulations -
Meat Inspection, Pure Food and Drug Act Racial tension -
Brownsville Affair Lochner v New York - can't limit number of
working hours Gentlemen's Agreemtn with Japan - limit Japanese
immigrants, but Japanese get equal education Muller v Oregon -
women's working hours can't be restricted, as it is discriminatory
Taft (Rep) Payne-Aldrich Tariff - Taft had campaigned on lowering
tariffs, but this tariff didn't really lower them US Steel
prosecution - made Roosevelt mad Dollar diplomacy - tried to buy
Manchurian railroad from Jp (ignored) NAACP forms Ballinger-Pinchot
Affair - Disagreement between Roosevelt and Taft Wilson (Dem)
Underwood Tariff - lowered tariff Federal Reserve Act - Glass-Owens
Act Clayton Antitrust Act - interlocking directorates, price
discrim, allowed labor unions FTC established LaFollete's Seamen's
Act Worker's Compensation Act Adamson's Act - 8 hour workday for
intersate railroad workers, same wage as 10 hour day Keating-Ownes
Act - federal child labor law War Revenue Act - graduated income
tax Merchant Marine Act - trade between US ports must be on US
boats, sold US warfleet Esch-Cummings Transportation Act - solds
railroads Tries to stay out of WWI - Lusitania, Sussex pledge
(Germans won't sink unarmed boats), Zimmerman note ABC Conference -
stopped (undeclared) war with Mexico Latin America - Send marines
to Tahaiti and Santo Domingo, bought Virgin Islands Russian
Revolution - US doesn't recognize for 16 years Treaty of Versailles
- 14 pts (self-determination) League of Nation Red Scare -
Sacco-Venzetti Triple Wall of Privledge (Tariff, Banks, Trusts)
Federal Highway Act Farmers - Farm Loan Act (loans at lower rates),
Warehouse Act (loans with crops as security) Selective Service Act
- WWI draft War Industry Board - took control of war industries
Harlem Rennaissance Solemn Referendum 16th Amendment - income tax
17th Amendment - direct election of senators Appoints Jew to
Supreme Court Schenk v. US - 1st Amendment restricted during war
18th Amendment - Prohibition (Volstead Act would enforce it) Hammer
v. Dagenhart - government can't regulate child labor 19th Amendment
- women sufferage Harding (Rep) Emergency Tariff 1921 - saved
farmers Fordney-McCumber Tariff - Blatently protective tariff
Capper-Volstead Act - Cooperative Marketing Act Separate peace w/
Germany Four, Five, Nine Power Treaties - status quo, 5:5:3, open
door in China Veterans Bureau Emergency Quota Act Scandals: Teapot
Dome (took bribes to sell mineral rights), Veteran Bureau, Alien
Property Custodian, Justice Department KKK revived Calvin Coolidge
(Rep) Dawes Plan - reduce German reperations Withdraws from
Dominican Republic Kellog-Briand Pact - Outlaws War Snyder Act of
1924 - American Indians get citizenship Immigration Act of 1924 -
Similar to Emergency Quota Act, but different year Soldier's Bonus
Act - Bonus to soldiers Adkins v. Children's Hospital - minimum
wage illegal Scopes trial - evolution trial First female state
governor Herbert Hoover (Rep) Agricultural Marketing Act - created
Federal Farm Board which helped farmers organize Stock-market crash
Hawley-Smoot Tariff - Highest of all time Reconstruction Finance
Corporation - gave loans to businesses (trickle-down)
Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injection Act - no yellow-dog contracts
Glass-Steagall - created FDIC, insured deposits in banks London
Naval Conference - Altered ratios of five power to 10:10:7
Appeasement - Japan invades Manchuria (US and League complained,
but didn't do anything), Germany takes over stuff Debt Moratorium -
Slowed repayment on loans from European nations Stimson Doctrine -
don't recognize results of aggression (resulted from Japan's
expansion in Manchuria) Bonus Army - veterans march on Washington,
dispersed by military force Franklin Roosevelt (Dem) Hundred Days
Congress - Lots of legislation to cure Depression (doesn't work),
and other related acts TVA Agricultural Adjustment Act (paid to not
grow crops) Reciprocal Trade Agreement (tariffs would be lowered
for countries that lowered theirs) Bank Holiday - closed holidays
(would be reopened when FDR certified them) World Economic Council
Good Neighbor Policy - stopped armed intervention in Latin America
Beer and Wine Revenue Act - taxed beer and wine, why waste a
perfectly good industry? US off gold standard - allowed for
inflation of dollar Civilian Conservation Corps - Young men work in
forest, send earnings to families Federal Emergency Relief Act -
Direct money to civilians Federal Securities Act - Regulated stock
market Homeowners Refinancing Act - provided mortgage money and
other aid to homeowners Glass-Steagall Act - FDIC, insures
indidivual's banking accounts (stopped bank failures) Farm Credit
Act - gave farmer's credit National Industrial Recovery Act -
businesses can cooperate to create codes of fair competition. Also
laborers can't work for too many hours or too little wages Public
Works Administration - $4bill on public projects Civil Works
Administration - Provided temporary jobs during winter Indian
Reorganization Act - Gave Indians more political and economic
freedom Townsend Act - $200 to those over 60 National Housing Act -
federal housing administration, homes for cheap Works Progress
Administration - provided money for public works Wagner Act -
National Labor Relations Board established, gave laborers right to
engage in self-organization, collective bargaining through
representatives of their choice, if unable to agree, government
could mediate Social Security - pay money to retired people Soil
Conservation Act - Replaces AAA, planted soil conserving crops Fair
Labor Standards - set minimum wage and maximum hours, no child
labor under 16 and 18 if dangerous Neutrality Acts - 1935 (no
selling arms to countries at war, done over Italian invasion of
Ethiopia), 1937 (couldn't sell to sides in civil war, done because
of Spanish CivWar), second act of 1937 (can't travel on ships of
belligerants) Munich Conference - Appeases Germany Assistance to
Britain Cash and Carry - pay for it in cash, ship it on own boats
Destroyer deal - 50 destroyers for bases Lend-lease - lend war
material, must be returned or monetary value Nazi-Soviet Pact What
did US do to prepare? US invokes peacetime draft Atlantic Charter
Fair Employment Practices Comission - no discrimination in war
industry Nationalize railroad War Production Board - controlled
production War Conferences Atlantic - If US enters war, Europe
would be first Cairo - Roosevelt, Churchill and Cheng Kai-Shek, US
would help China Casablanca Tehran - Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill.
First time "big three" meet (open second front in Europe) US
becomes world power Dumbarton Conference - planning for UN (see SF
Conference) Bretton-Woods Conference - International Monetary Fund
Yalta Conference - Eastern Europe gets democractic elections GI
Bill - gives GI's education and ease them back into society (didn't
want alot of people coming back and then high unemployment) 20th
Amendment - Shortens lame duck period 21st Amendment - Prohibition
ends "Court-Packing" - no messing with Supreme Court Korematsu v.
US - internment legal Harry Truman (Dem) Employment Act - gave
federal government responsibility for maintaining economy
Taft-Hartley Act - no closed shop (no longer forced to join unions)
Fair Deal Potsdam Conference - Expanded on Yalta conference
Nuremburg Trials - warcrime trial Atomic Energy Commission -
created peacetime nuclear energy uses San Francisco Conference -
security council for UN, and veto power finalized Phillippines
Independence Churchill's Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine - money to
Greece and Turkey, US would fight spread of Commies Marshall Plan -
money to Europe, fight commies Containment Policy - resist spread
of Communist ideas Berlin Airlift - US will fight communism,
Russians back down NATO - first binding treaty! China becomes Red
China Korean War Presidential Succession Act - defines order of
presidential succession National Security Act - coordinates wartime
intelligence Civil Rights Armed forces desegregate Red Scare Alger
Hiss Rosenburgs McCarthy Nixon 22nd Amendment - 2 terms Eisenhower
(Rep) Landrum-Griffin - limited the ways unions could boycott
National highways Korean War armistance SEATO, CENTO Domino Theory
(one falls, THEY ALL FALL!) Massive Retaliation - build SAC and
nuclear bombs, thought to be cheaper Geneva Summit (called for open
skies, ignored) Warsaw Pact Hungarian revolution, killed by Soviet
tanks and Warsaw Pact Suez Crisis Eisenhower Doctrine - we'll
intervene in Middle East Sputnik launch - led to improved science
and math education Paris Summit - U2 incident messes it up Civil
Rights Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock integrated, National
Guard SCLC established - MLK's group SNCC established - nonviolent
(students) Lunch counter sitins Alaska and Hawaii admitted as
states Brown v Board - "seperate is inherently unequal" John
Kennedy (Dem) Cold War Berlin Wall constructed Bay of Pigs Cuban
Missile Crisis Alliance for Progress - Marshall plan for Latin
America Trade Expansion Act - led to lower tariffs between Europe
and US Nuclear test ban Peace Corps founded Agency for
International Development Civil Rights Freedom Riders 23rd
Amendment - DC gets 3 electoral college votes Lyndon Johnson (Dem)
Great Society - fought poverty and racial injustice War on Poverty,
Social Security Act, creating Medicare and Medicaid Vietnam Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution - president had blank check in Vietnam Paris
Peace Talks Tet Offensive Civil Rights Acts - protected black men
from discrimination, government could force more desgregation in
schools, women's equality Black Panthers Form 24th Amendment - no
poll taxes Miranda case 25th Amendment - presidential secession
First black on SCourt Richard Nixon (Rep) OPEC embargo Alaskan
Pipeline Detente Nuclear Proliferation Treaty SALT Opens
relationship with China Moscow summit (1, 2 and 3) Cease fire in
Vietnam Kissinger - Middle East talks SALTII Moon landing
Environment - Clean Air Act, EPA War Powers Act - President
couldn't send troops w/o approval Watergate 26th Amendment - 18 to
vote Gerald Ford (Rep) SVietnam falls Streaking becomes fad!
Pardons Nixon Jimmy Carter (Dem) Energy Department (due to OPEC)
Camp David between Egypt and Israel Panama Canal treaty - US will
return it SALT II Iran Hostage Crisis USSR invades Afghanistan
Pardons draft evaders in Vietnam War Ronald Reagan (Rep)
"Reaganomics" tax cut (tried to decrease size of gov't) Stock
Market plunge, 1987 Hostages released Marines killed in Lebanon SDI
initiative - outspend USSR Meets with Gorbachev Intermediate
Nuclear Force treaty - less nuclear weapons in Europe Iran-Contra
scandal First woman justice George Bush (Rep) Americans with
Disabilities Act Gulf War Berlin Wall falls - Germans unified USSR
initiates economic reforms Eastern European bloc falls (Solidarity
wins in Poland) USSR disintegrates Environmental summit in Rio de
Janero War on Drugs 27th Amendment - congressional pay raises take
effect for next round of senators Webster v. Reproductive Health
Services - neo-Con William Clinton (Dem) Welfare reform NAFTA
signed EU created PLO-Israeli agreement Troops in Bosnia WTC
bombed