us presidents

george washington

1789-1797 (1791: bill of rights)

john adams

1797-1801

thomas jefferson

1801-1809 (1803: louisiana purchase; 1808: atlantic slave trade abolished)

james madison

1809-1817 (1812-1815: war of 1812)

james monroe

1817-1825

john quincy adams

1825-1829

andrew jackson

1829-1837

martin van buren

1837-1841

william henry harrison

1841-1841

john tyler

1841-1845

james k. polk

1845-1849 (1846-1848: land acquisition after mexican war)

zachary taylor

1849-1850

millard fillmore

1850-1853

franklin pierce

1853-1857

james buchanan

1857-1861 (1860: confederate states secede from union)

abraham lincoln

1861-1865 (civil war; 1863: emancipation proclamation; 1865: slavery abolished under 13th amendment, lincoln assassinated)

andrew johnson

1865-1869

ulysses s. grant

1869-1877

rutherford b. hayes

1877-1881

james a. garfield

1881-1881

chester a. arthur

1881-1885

grover cleveland

1885-1889

benjamin harrison

1889-1893

grover cleveland

1893-1897

william mckinley

1897-1901 (1898: spanish-american war, US annexes hawaii, gains territories)

theodore roosevelt

1901-1909

william howard taft

1909-1913

woodrow wilson

1913-1921 (1914-1918: wwi; 1920: women given right to vote; prohibition era begins)

warren g. harding

1921-1923

calvin coolidge

1923-1929 (1924: indigenous people given right to citizenship)

herbert hoover

1929-1933 (the great depression)

franklin d. roosevelt

1933-1945 (1933: new deal; 1939: wwii begins)

harry s. truman

1945-1953 (1945: atomic bombs dropped, wwii ends; 1947: cold war begins; 1948: the marshall plan; 1950: mccarthyism; 1950-1953: US involvement in korean war)

dwight d. eisenhower

1953-1961 (1954: racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional; 1955: US involvement in vietnam begins)

john f. kennedy

1961-1963 (1962: cuban missile crisis)

lyndon b. johnson

1963-1969 (US involvement in vietnam spikes;1964: civil rights act; 1968: mlk assassinated)

richard nixon

1969-1974 (1969: neil armstrong goes to the moon; 1972: nixon visits china and recognizes the communist government; 1973: US withdraws from vietnam)

gerald ford

1974-1977

jimmy carter

1977-1981 (1979: 444 day hostage crisis in tehran)

ronald reagan

1981-1989 (anti-communist abroad; tax-cutting within the country; 1986: “irangate” uncovered)

george h. w. bush

1989-1993 (1989: US troops invade panama, oust its government; 1992: north american free trade agreement (nafta) passed)

bill clinton

1993-2001

george w. bush

2001-2009 (9/11; US embarks on “war on terror,” including invasions of afghanistan and iraq; 2002: creation of department of homeland security; 2003: missile attacks on baghdad; 2005: hurricane katrina)

barack obama

2009-2017 (2011: osama bin laden is killed; 2013: edward snowden flees to russia; 2014: shooting of michael brown and choking of eric garner: blm)

donald trump

2017-2021

joe biden

2021-2025