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