periods + presidents on APUSH

Period 1

1491-1607 (Interactions in North America)

no president yet because not yet a nation

Period 2

1607-1754 (Colonial Society)

Period 3

1754-1800 (Conflict and American Independence)

-1789 George Washington

-1797 john Addams

period 4

1800-1848 (Jeffersonian Democracy and Manifest Destiny)

-JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817

-JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825

-JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829

-ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837

-MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841

-WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841

-JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845

-JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849

period 5

1848-1877 (Civil War and Reconstruction)

-ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850

-MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853

-FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857

-JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865

-ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869

-ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877

-RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881

period 6

1865-1898 (Industrialization and the Gilded Age)

-JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881

-CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885

-GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897

-BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893

-WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901

period 7

1890-1945 (Conflict in the Early 20th Century)

-THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909

-WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913

-WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921

-WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923

-CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929

-HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933

-FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945

-HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945-1953

period 8

1945-1980 (The Postwar Period and Cold War)

-DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER | 1953-1961

-JOHN F. KENNEDY | 1961-1963

-LYNDON B. JOHNSON | 1963-1969

-RICHARD M. NIXON | 1969-1974

-GERALD R. FORD | 1974-1977

-JIMMY CARTER | 1977-1981

period 9

1980-Present (Entering the 21st Century)

-RONALD REAGAN | 1981-1989

-GEORGE BUSH | 1989-1993

-WILLIAM J. CLINTON | 1993-2001

-GEORGE W. BUSH | 2001-2009

-BARACK OBAMA | 2009-2017