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This replaced the Articles of Confederation and gave the United States a new legal system and increased the federal authority, yet it still protected the basic rights of the citizens.
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George Washington became the first president of the United States. He was a federalist from Virginia.
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Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution. The Ten Original Amendments: The Bill of Rights. Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791.
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John Adams becomes the second president of the United States and only serves one term.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States
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President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804-06), led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, among other objectives. In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France.
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James Madison becomes forth president of the United States and is a republican from Virginia
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James Monroe becomes the fifth president. Served as president from 1817 to 1825
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This was very important because for so long was the Europe and the British all in Americas business and this basically told them they cant be politically involved with anything in the Americas.
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John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president. Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped U.S. foreign policy in line
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Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president and is on the face of the twenty dollar bill
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Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth president
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William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth president, an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject
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John Tyler becomes the tenth president
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James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.
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Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House.
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Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation
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James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
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Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. He became President at the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States through a complex Compromise of 1877.
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year.
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Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States; he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination.
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.
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Benjamin Harrison was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.
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William McKinley was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of the United States from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices.
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923.
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
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The New Deal was a series of economic programs. It was passed in 1933 - 1936.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, coming to office on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the last months of World War II.
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Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989.
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George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
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On this date Barack Obama is the first African American president and is the 44th president of the United States.
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Donald John Trump is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States.
