George Washington

Federalist

1788-1797

• 1788-1797: Presidential Traditions Set (e.g. cabinet, two terms)
• 1784-1795: Northwest Indian War
• 1791: Crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion
• 1791: Formation of the National Bank
• 1794: Jay's Treaty

John Adams

Federalist

1797-1801

• 1798: XYZ Affair Sours French-American Relations
• 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
• 1798: Eli Whitney Creates 10,000 Interchangable Part Rifles
• 1799-1800: Fries's Rebellion
• 1800: First Case of Congress Determining President

Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican

1801-1809

• 1803: Marbury vs. Madison Empowers Supreme Court
• 1803: Louissiana Purchase
• 1804: Lewis And Clark Begin Expedition
• 1807: Embargo Act
• 1807: Slave Trade Banned

James Madison

Democratic-Republican

1809-1817

• 1810: First Steamboat Sails the Ohio River
• 1811: Battle of Tippecanoe
• Date not Found: War of 1812
• 1814: First Machine Mass-Produced Using Interchangable Parts
• 1815: First Railroad Charter Granted

James Monroe

Democratic-Republican

1817-1825

• 1817-1825: Era of Good Feelings-Political Unison
• 1817-1825: Erie Canal Constructed
• 1819: Spain Cedes the Florida Territory
• Guess: Land Act of 1820-More Americans Move West
• 1823: Monroe Doctrine- "Stay Away!"

John Quincy Adams

Democratic-Republican

1825-1829

• 1826: First Comercial U.S. Railroad Opened
• Date Missing: Tarriff of 1828
• 1827: First African-American Newspaper
• 1829: First Labor Union: The Working Men's Party
• 1828: Anti-Masonic and Nullifier Political Parties Formed

Andrew Jackson

Democrat

1829-1837

• 1830: Indian Removal Act
• ~1831: Founding of the Whig Party
• 1832: Nullification Crisis
• 1834: Removal of Federal Deposits from the National Bank
• 1836: Battle of the Alamo Begins Texan Violence

Martin Van Buren

Democrat

1837-1841

• ?: Record-Level Unemployment and Panic of 1837
• 1837: Broad St Anti-Immigration Riot Against Irish
• 1838: First Public Demonstration of Telegraph
• 1838: Trail of Tears (Cherokee)
• 1839: First Law Pemitting Women to Own Property

William Henry Harrison
And due to his untimely death from pneumonia:

John Tyler

Democrats

1841-1845

• 1841: Tyler Vetoes Bank Recharter, Violent Whig Riot Ensues
• 1842: Commonwealth v. Hunt Legalizes Labor Unions
• Ongoing: Edgar Allen Poe Grows Famous from Publishing many Peoms and Stories
• 1844: First Electrical Telegram Sent
• 1845: Congress Approves Annexation of Texas

James Polk

Democrat

1845-1849

• 1845: Polk Announces to Congress to Enforce Monroe Doctrine and Vigorously Expand West
• 1846-1847: Mexican-American War
• 1948: Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
• 1848-1855: California Gold Rush
• 1849: Regular East-to-West Coast Steamboat Sails

Zachary Taylor
Who soon after election died and was replaced by

Millard Fillmore

Whigs

1849-1853

• Missing: Henry Clay Introduces Compromise of 1850
• 1850: Harriet Tubman Becomes Official Conductor for the Underground Railroad
• 1850, 1851, 1852: The Scarlett Letter, Moby Dick, and Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
• Also Missing: Great Flood of 1851 Devastates Midwest
• 1852: First Chinese Laborers Imported to Hawaii

Franklin Pierce

Democrat

1853-1857

• 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 1854-1860: Bleeding Kansas
• 1854: Ostend Manifesto Drafted (About the Necessity of Purchasing Cuba)
• 1856: The Caning of Charles Sumner
• Ongoing: Multiple Occasions of Anti-Catholic Violence

 James Buchanan

Democrat

1857-1861

• 1857: Mormon Migration Inspires Utah War
• 1858-1861: Lincoln-Douglass Debates
• 1857: Dred Scott Decision: Slaves are Property
• 1859: John Brown Raids Harper's Ferry
• 1861: Secession of Seven States

Abraham Lincoln

Who is assassinated and replaced by

Andrew Johnson

Republican and Democrat

1861-1869

• 1861-1865: The Civil War
• 1862: Homestead Act Signed into Law
• 1863: Emancipation Proclamation Signed
• 1865: Reconstruction Begins
• 1865 and 1868: 13th and 14th Amendments Begin Racial Equality

Ulysses S. Grant

Republican

1869-1877

• 1870: The 15th Amendment Finishes the Trio of Civil Rights
• 1869: NWSA (National Womens Suffrage Association) Forms
• 1871: Force Act of 1871 Fights KKK, Albeit Overdue
• 1873 to 1879: Post-Civil-War Depression
• Ongoing: Heavy Political Corruption and Rings

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican

1877-1881

• Unknown: Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• 1877, 1880: Phonograph and Lightbulb Patented
• 1877: Reconstruction Officially Ends
• 1879: First time since the Civil War that dollars are equal to gold, signalling an improving economy
• 1881: First State Prohibition of Alcohol Proves its Effect on the US

James Garfield

Whose assasination brought into office

Chester A. Arthur

Republican

1881-1885

• 1881: First Public High School West of the Mississippi Opens
• 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
• 1883: The Spoils System is Officially Ended
• 1883: Supreme Court Repeals Civil Rights Act Because of Discrimination Being Unconstitutional
• 1885: Charles Dow Publishes First Dow Jones Industrial Average

Grover Cleveland

Democrat

1885-1889 and 1893-1897

• Ongoing: Blizzards Kill Hundreds, Signalling Change in Climate
• 1886: Statue of Liberty Arrives In New York
• Missing: Panic of 1893 Begins Depression
• 1896: Plessy V. Fergusson Civil Rights Case
• 1896: Henry Ford Produces the First Car of his Business Empire that Would Put America on Wheels.

Benjamin Harrison

Republican

1889-1893

• 1889: First Electric Power-Transmission Line
• 1890: Sherman Anti-Trust Act Ends Trust Monopolies
• 1890: Beginning of the "Progressive Era"
• 1892: Homestead Strike
• 1893: First Motion Picture Studio Opened

William McKinley

Republican

1897-1901

• 1897: First Underground Subway Built
• 1898: Spanish-American War
• 1899: Great Blizzard of 1899 Damages Lives and Economy
• 1900: U.S. Currency Placed on the Gold Standard
• 1900: Phillipine-American War (Because who needs creativity)