First 19 Presidents and Facts

George Washington

Whiskey Rebellion 1794

Farewell Address 1796

John Adams (F)

XYZ Affair 1798

Alien and Sedition Acts 1798

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1798

Midnight Appointments 1801

Thomas Jefferson (DR)

Wrote the Declaration of Independence 1776

Revolution of 1800

Louisiana Purchase 1803

Marbury v. Madison 1803

Embargo Act 1807

James Madison (DR)

Wrote the Bill of Rights 1789

War of 1812

Hartford Convention 1814

James Monroe (DR)

Era of Good Feelings 1820s

Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820

Monroe Doctrine 1823

John Quincy Adams (DR)

Corrupt Bargain 1824

Tariff of Abominations 1828

American System/Erie Canal 1825

Andrew Jackson (D)

Hero of the War of 1812

Common Man’s President 1828

Indian Removal Act 1830

Nullification Crisis 1832

Pet Banks 1830s

Martin Van Buren (D)

Panic of 1837

Trail of Tears 1838

William Henry Harrison (W)

Log Cabin/Hard Cider Campaign 1840

First president to die in office 1841

John Tyler (W)

First VP to take over the presidency 1841

Annexed Texas 1845

James K. Polk (D)

Manifest Destiny 1840s

Mexican American War 1846-48

Zachary Taylor (W)

Hero of the Mexican-American War 1846-48

Opposed to the Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore (W)

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

Franklin Pierce (D)

Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

Bleeding Kansas 1855

James Buchanan (D)

Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry 1859

Abraham Lincoln (R)

1860 election leads to Southern secession

Civil War 1861-65

Railway Act 1862

Homestead Act 1862

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

Andrew Johnson (D)

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ratified

Beginning of Reconstruction 1865

Congress overrode his vetoes

Ulysses S. Grant (R)

Credit Mobilier scandal 1872

Specie Resumption Act 1875

Rutherford B. Hayes (R)

Compromise of 1877

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

End of Reconstruction 1877

James A. Garfield (R)

Assassinated by a man who wanted a government job 1881

Death leads to the end of the Spoils System

Chester Arthur (R)

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883

Grover Cleveland (D) 1

Haymarket Riot 1886

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 1887

Dawes Act 1887

Benjamin Harrison (R)

Sherman Antitrust Act 1890

Homestead Strike 1892

Grover Cleveland (D) 2

Panic of 1893 (silver debate)

Coxey’s Army 1894

Pullman Strike 1894

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

William McKinley (R)

1896 election ends the Populist Party

Spanish-American War 1898

Annexation of Hawaii 1898

Filipino Rebellion 1899

Open Door Notes 1899

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (R)

1st progressive president

Coal Strike of 1902

Northern Securities v. U.S. 1904

Meat Inspection and Pure Food And Drug Acts 1906

Progressive “Bull Moose” 1912 Election

William Howard Taft (R)

Triangle Fire 1911

Dollar Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson (D)

16th and 17th amendments ratified 1913

18 and 19th amendments ratified 1920

First World War 1914-1918 (U.S. entry 1917)

Committee on Public Information (CPI) 1917

Espionage and Sedition Acts 1918

Fourteen Points/League of Nations 1919

Warren G. Harding (R)

Normalcy 1920s

Teapot Dome Scandal 1923

Calvin Coolidge (R)

Immigration Quota Act 1924

Dawes Plan 1924

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Herbert Hoover (R)

Crash of 1929

Bonus Army 1932

Dust Bowl 1930s

Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)

New Deal 1930s

Social Security 1935

Neutrality Acts 1935

21st Amendment ratified 1933

Lend-Lease Act 1941

World War II 1939-1945 (1941)

Executive Order 9066/Japanese Internment 1942

Yalta Conference 1945

Harry Truman (D)

Ends war in Japan with atomic bombs 1945

End of WWII/Beginning of Cold War 1945

Desegregated military 1948

Korean War 1950-53

Marshall Plan 1948

Levittown 1947

Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)

Brown v. Board of Education 1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955

Federal Highways Act 1956

Little Rock 9 1957

Warns of the military industrial complex 1961

John F. Kennedy (D)

Freedom Riders 1961

Bay of Pigs 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Immigration Act of 1965

Creation of HUD 1965

Tet Offensive 1968

Richard Nixon (R)

Moon landing 1969

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1970

Pentagon Papers 1971

Paris Peace Agreement (Vietnam) 1973

Watergate 1974

Gerald Ford (R)

Pardons Nixon 1974

Helsinki Accords 1975

Jimmy Carter (D)

Stagflation 1970s

SALT II 1979

Ronald Reagan (R)

Appointed Sandra Day O’Connor 1981

SDI “Star Wars” 1980s

“Trickle Down” tax cuts for wealthiest Americans 1980s

New Right 1980s

“Tear down this wall” 1987

George H.W. Bush (R)

End of Cold War 1991

Operation Desert Storm 1991

Bill Clinton (D)

NAFTA 1992

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 1993

1st president of the internet age 1990s

George W. Bush (R)

2000 election decided by Supreme Court

9/11/2001

Patriot Act 2001

Barack Obama (D)

1st African American president 2008

Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) 2010

1st president of the social media age

Donald Trump (R)

COVID-19 Pandemic 2020

Only president to be impeached twice