For American History we need to identify a major historical event durign the term of each president. Just to check myself do all of these look the like the biggest events during each term?


4/304/30 1789 - 3/4 1793George Washington Bill of Rights (1791)
3/4 1793 - 3/4 1797 George Washington Whisky Rebellion (1794)
3/4 1797 - 3/4 1801 John Adams Revolution of 1800
3/4 1801 - 3/4 1805 Thomas Jefferson Louisiana Purchase (1803)
3/4 1805 - 3/4 1809 Thomas Jefferson Embargo Act (1807)
3/4 1809 - 3/4 1813 James Madison War of 1812
3/4 1813 - 3/4 1817 James Madison Treaty of Ghent (1814)
3/4 1817 - 3/4 1821 James Monroe Missouri Compromise (1820)
3/4 1821 - 3/4 1825 James Monroe Monroe Doctrine (1823)
3/4 1825 - 3/4 1829 John Quincy Adams Election of 1828
3/4 1829 - 3/4 1833 Andrew Jackson Webster-Hayne Debates (1830)
3/4 1833 - 3/4 1837 Andrew Jackson Trail of Tears (1836-)
3/4 1837 - 3/4 1841 Martin Van Buren Panic of 1837
3/4 1841 - 3/4 1845 William Harrison John Tyler (4/4/41) Telegraph (1844)
3/4 1845 - 3/4 1849 James K. Polk Sewing Machine (1846)
3/4 1849 - 3/4 1853 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore (7/9/50) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
3/4 1853 - 3/4 1857 Franklin Pierce Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
3/4 1857 - 3/4 1861 James Buchanan Dred Scott Decision (1857)
3/4 1861 - 3/4 1865 Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
3/4 1865 - 3/4 1869 Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson (4/15/65) 1st Presidential Assassination (1865)
3/4 1869 - 3/4 1873 Ulysses S. Grant Transcontinental Railway (1869)
3/4 1873 - 3/4 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Telephone (1876)
3/4 1877 - 3/4 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes Light bulb (1879)
3/4 1881 - 3/4 1885 James J. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (9/18/81) Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
3/4 1885 - 3/4 1889 Grover Cleveland May Day Strikes (1886)
3/4 1889 - 3/4 1893 Benjamin Harrison Closing of the Frontier (1890)
3/4 1893 - 3/4 1897 Grover Cleveland Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)
3/4 1897 - 3/4 1901 William McKinley Spanish American War (1898)
3/4 19 01- 3/4 1905 William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt (9/14/01) Roosevelt Corollary (1903)
3/4 1905 - 3/4 1909 Theodore Roosevelt The Jungle (1906)
3/4 1909 - 3/4 1913 William Taft Dollar Diplomacy (1910-)
3/4 1913 - 3/4 1917 Woodrow Wilson Labor Laws (1913, 1914)
3/4 1917 - 3/4 1921 Woodrow Wilson Communist Revolution (1917)
3/4 1921 - 3/41925 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge (8/2/23) Teapot Dome Scandal (1923)
3/4 1925 - 3/41929 Calvin Coolidge Kellog-Briand Pact (1928)
3/4 1929 - 3/41933 Herbert Hoover Stock Market Crash (1929)
3/4 1933 - 1/20 1937 F.D. Roosevelt Alphabet Soup Laws (1933)
1/20 1937 - 1/20 1941 F.D. Roosevelt Unprecedented 3rd Pres. Term (1940)
1/20/1941- 1/20/1954 F.D. Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941
1/20/1945- 1/20/1949 F.D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman (4/12/1945) Hiroshima Aug. 9, 1945
1/20/1949- 1/20/1953 Harry S. Truman Korean War (1950)
1/20/1953- 1/20/1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
1/20/1957- 1/20/1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Sputnik (1957)

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

What about Kennedy-Bush?

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Not there yet in the class, patience please young grasshopper.

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

Andrew Jackson - maybe the Nullification Crisis
James K. Polk - Mexican War......manifest destiny.....

I think the election of a president counts as a historical event correct?

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yeah If you don't have a historical event every 4 years there would be a problem. thats about 20 events per 80 year lifetime. thats not that many.

I mean I'm 29 and I would say the biggest events in the last 15 years or so are

9/11

2 gulf wars

bosnia war/genocide

berlin wall tumbling down

columbine

end of USSR

Red Sox winning the World Series

thats 8 things right off the top of my head, I would bet there are 2 events a year that will stick in your memory

and there are so many things that are significant to other people that we feel are insignificant that you couldn't list them all

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I find your response in this thread shallow, and pedantic...

Carter has the Iran Hostage Crisis, and the insanely high interest rates.

Reagan has his assination attempt. Was Chernobyl during his term too? I think the Soviet fighters shot down a Korean passenger jet while he was in office. Also the SALT talks and Granada. Bombing Libya and the various terrorist attacks that led up the bombings.


Bush 41 has the fall of the wall, Panama invansion and Gulf War I/Kuwait invasion.

Zachary Taylor- you must have the Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin had such a social impact though!

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

Yes, I have this for Adams, Q. Adams, and FDR's 3rd term.

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann