First 20 Presidents

George Washington

1st President

1789-1797
1st Bank of the United States granted 20 year charter, 1791

Bill of Rights ratified, 1791

John Adams

2nd President
Took office from 1797-1801
Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President
Took office from 1801-1809
Marbury v. Madison,

Louisiana Purchase, 1803

James Madison

4th President
Took office from 1809-1817
Macon Act, 1810

First Protective Tariff

James Monroe

5th President
Took office from 1817-1825
Monroe Doctrine

Missouri Compromise

John Quincy Adams

6th President
Took office from 1825-1829
• "Corrupt Bargain"

• Erie Canal, 1825

Andrew Jackson

7th President
Took office from 1829-1837
Jacksonian Democracy

• Tariffs of 1832 and 1833

Martin Van Buren

8th President
Took office from 1837-1841
Panic of 1837

• Specie Circular, no Bank of the United States

William Henry Harrison

9th President
Took office from 1841-1841
Died of Pneumonia 32 days into office

John Tyler

10th President
Took office from 1841-1845
Vetoes Clay's bill for 3rd Bank of the United States

• Canadian Border set at 45th parallel

James Knox Polk

11th President
Took office from 1845-1849
• Manifest Destiny

• Texas becomes a state, 1845

Zachary Taylor

12th President
Took office from 1849-1850
Died of Intestinal disease a little over a year into office.

Millard Fillmore

13th President
Took office from 1850-1853
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce

14th President
Took office from 1853-1857
Underground Railroad

• Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan

15th President
Took office from 1857-1861
Dred Scott decision, 1857

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858

Abraham Lincoln

16th President
Took office from 1861-1865
Civil War, 1861-1865

• Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

Andrew Johnson

17th President
Took office from 1865-1869
13th Amendment, 1865

• 14th Amendment, 1868

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President
Took office from 1869-1877

15th Amendment, 1870

• First Transcontinental Railroad

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President
Took office from 1877-1881
Bland-Allison Act, 1878 (free coinage of silver)

• Troops withdrawn from the South, 1877

James A. Garfield

20th President
Took office from 1881-1881
Assassinated