George Washington

#1

• 1789~1797
• Judiciary Act 1789
• Tariff of 1789
• Whiskey Rebellion 1799
• French Revolution- Citizen Genét 1793
• Jay treaty w/ Egland 1795
• Pinckney treaty w/ Spain 1795
• Farewell Address 1796 
• First Bank of U.S. 

John Adams

Republican 

#2

• 1797~1801
• XYZ affair 1797
• Alien Sedition Act 1798
• Naturalization Act 
• Midnight Judges 1801
• Kentucky (Jefferson) & VA (Madison) resolutions 1798

Thomas Jefferson 

Republican 

#3

• 1801~1809
• Marbury v. Madison 1803
• Louisiana Purchase 1803 
• Lewis & Clark expedition 1804-1805
• 12th Ammendment 1804
• Embargo act 1807
• Non intercourse Act 1809

James Madison

Republican

#4

• 1809~1817
• Macon Act 1810
• Berlin & Milan Decrees 
• Orders in Council 
• War Hawks 1811-1812
• War of 1812
• Hartford Convention 1814 
• First Protective Tariff 1816

James Monroe 

Republican 

#5

• 1817~1825
• Marshall's Decisions 
• Aquisition of Fl from Spain 1819
• Transcontinental or Adam-Oñis treaty 
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Monroe Doctrine 1823
• Sectional Tariff 1824

John Quincy Adams

National Republican

#6

• 1825~1829
• Corrupt Bargain 
• Erie Canal 1825
• Tariff of Abominations 
• Calhoun's Exposition and Protest 1828

Andrew Jackson 

Democrat 

#7

• 1829~1837
• Jacksonian Democracy 
• Tariffs of 1832 & 1833
• 2nd Bank of U.S
• Formed Whig Party 1832

Martin Van Buren 

Democrat 

#8

• 1837~1841
• Panic of 1837 
• Specie Circular (no bank of U.S)
• Unsound financing by state gov't 

William Henry Harrison 

Whig 

#9

• 1841

 John Tyler

Anti-Jackson Democrat 

(ran as vp on Whig ticket)

#10

• 1841~1845
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
• Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of U.S
• Canadian Border set at 45th parallel

James Polk

Democrat 

#11

• 1845~1849
• Manifest Destiny
• TX becomes a State 1845
• Oregon boundary settled 1846
• Mexican War 1846-48
• Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo 1848
• Wilmot Proviso 

Zachary Taylor 

Whig 

#12

• 1849~1850

Millard Filmore

Whig 

#13 

• 1850~1853
• Compromise of 1850
• Clayton-Bulwer Treay 1850 (Britain & U.S agree not to expant in central Am. if canal is built)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 

Franklin Pierce 

Democrat 

#14

• 1853~1857
• Kansas-Nebraska Bill 1854
• Popular sovereignty 
• Japan opened to world trade 1853 
• Underground RR
• Beeding Kansas
• Ostend Manifesto 1854 

James Buchanan 

Democrat 

#15

• 1857~1861
• Dred Scott decision 1857
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 

Abe Lincoln

Republican 

#16

• 1861~1865
• Civil War 1861-1865
• Emancipation Proclimation 1863
• Homestead Act 1862
• Morill Act 1862 (created agricultural collgeges)
• Assassinated April 15, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth

Andrew Johnson 

Republican 

#17

• 1865~1869
• 13th Ammendment 1865
• 14th Ammendment 1868
• Reconstruction Act 1867
• Tenure of Office Act 1867
• Impeachment Trial 1868 
• Formation of KKK
• Adoption of Black Codes in South

Ulysses S. Grant 

Republican 

#18

• 869~1877
• 15th Ammendment 1870
• First Transcontinental RR 1869
• Tweed Ring 
• Panic of 1873 
• Crédit Mobilier 
• Whiskey Ring 

Rutherford B. Hayes 

Republican 

#19

• 1877~1881
• Bland-Allison Act 1878 (free coinage of silver)
• Troops withdrawn from South 1877

James Garfield 

Republican 

#20 

• March~Sept. 1881 
• Assassinated by C. Julius Guiteau