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George Washington
Washington was in the White House for 8 years. He was not a member of a specific political party. During his presidency, Congress established the first naturalization law. He signed the first US copyright law. Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution. The states ratified the Bill of Rights. Washington issued a proclamation of neutrality. Thomas Jefferson resigned as secretary of state and Edmund Randolph was his successor. -
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US Presidents
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John Adams
John Adams was in the White House for four years. He was a member of the federalist party. Previously, he was Vice President for the first president of the US, George Washington. John Adams' vice president was Thomas Jefferson. During his presidency, Adams declared the 11th Amendment into full force. The 11th Amendment states that "federal courts shall not have the jurisdiction over litigation between individuals from one state against individuals from another state." -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was in office for 8 years. He was a member of the Democratic Republican party. During his presidency, Congress recognized the war with Tripoli. Excise taxes on items such as whiskey were repealed. Naturalization laws were repealed. Ohio became the 17th state of the union. Spain reopened New Orleans to merchants in America. Congress passed the 12th Amendment which required people to vote for the president and VP separately. Lewis and Clark explore the Lousiana Purchase, -
James Madison
James Madison was in the White House for 8 years. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican party. During his presidency, Madison issued a proclamation authorizing West Florida as part of the Lousiana Purchase. Madison fired Secretary of State Robert Smith and replaces him with James Monroe. Lousiana was admitted as the 18th state of the US. The Creek Indians were brought into the war against the US because of the Battle of Burnt Corn. The US and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was in office for 8 years. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. During his presidency, Monroe created a policy of neutrality toward the Latin American colonies that wanted independence. Then, Mississippi became the 20th state in the Union. About a year later, Illinois became the 21st state in the Union and Alabama became the 22nd. The panic of 1819 began to occur because real estate values dropped and the inability to secure bank loans made currency inflate. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was in office for 4 years, He was a member of the Democratic-Republican party. During his presidency, the Atlantic and trans-Atlantic marketplaces were connected with agricultural production in the Northwestern states thanks to the 383-mile section of the Erie Canal. Adams completed a settlement with the British to help repair damages from the War of 1812. Then, he closed off all American ports from trade with Britain. After a short 4 year term, he was no longer the POTUS. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was president for 8 years. He was a member of the Democratic party and was a military hero. During his presidency, the Indian Removal Act was passed, forcing the relocation of all Native Americans to land west of the Mississippi River. Jackson won the reelection against Henry Clay. He issued the Nullification Proclamation which reduced the states' power to nullify federal laws. He pressed for the Force Bill which allowed him to use the army to "gain compliance" for federal law. -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was president for 4 years. He was a member of the Democratic party. During his presidency, the Panic of 1837 began when banks forbade payments of "specie". MVB wanted an iindepedent treasury to help resolve the economic issue. This is secured with the Independent Treasury Act in 1940. Van Buren announced his opposition to the annexation of Texas to keep peace with Mexico as well as to keep abolitionists calm. -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was president for only one month. He was a member of the Whig Party. He was the ninth president of the United States. After a month, he died of pneumonia. He was the first president to pass away while in office. -
John Tyler
John Tyler was president for 4 years. He was a member of the Whig Party for the first few months of his presidency, but later chose to not be a part of any party. During his presidency, Tyler vetoed a 2nd bill for the creation of a National Bank of the US and his entire cabinet resigned as a result. Then, the Texas Annexation Treaty is signed by the US and Texas. Later, the first telegraph was completed. Tyler became the first president to marry while in office. He married Julia Gardiner. -
James K. Polk
James K. Polk was in office for 4 years. He was a member of the democratic party. During his presidency, Texas was admitted as a slave state and it became the 28th state in the US. Congress passed the Tariff of 1846, which lowered rates "toward revenue-only levels". A few months later, Polk signed the Independent Treasury into law. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War and gave land to the US. Later that year, a woman's rights convention was held at Seneca Falls. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was president for just over a year. He was a member of the Whig Party. During his presidency, Congress debated whether or not to expand slavery into the land won in the Mexican War. Henry Clay proposed the Compromise of 1850 but Daniel Webster opposed it. In July of 1850, Taylor passed away due to "cholera molbus". He was the second president to die while in office. His vice president, Willard Fillmore then took over. -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was president for 3 and a half years. He was a member of the Whig Party. He took over after Zachary Taylor passed away due to an illness. During his presidency, California was entered as a free state, making it the 31st state in the country. The Fugitive Slave Law was then passed which prohibited people from providing aid to runaway slaves. Fillmore named the president of the Mornon Church, Brigham Young, governor of what is now Utah. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was president for four years. He was a member of the Democratic Party. During his presidency, Just before his presidency, Pierce's 11 year-old sun was killed in a train wreck. During his presidency, the Gadsden Purchase was signed, finalizing the southern borders of the US. Then, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, removing the Missouri Compromise of 1820. A 2-year guerrilla war, called Bleeding Kansas, took place in order to establish popular sovereignty. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was president for 4 years. He was a member of the Democratic Party. During his presidency, the Dred Scott decision occured. In the case, slaves were declared as unable to be citizens and stated that slavery could not be prohibited in the territories. Congress accepted Minnesota to the Union as a free state and it was the 32nd one. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abramaham Lincoln was president for just over 4 years. He was a member of the Republican Party. Lincoln was president during the Civil War. During his presidency, several states seceded from the Union. In 1862, Lincoln's son dies due to Typhoid Fever. Slavery is later abolished in the District of Columbia. The Battle of Antietam took place and it was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. John WIlkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater and he died the next day. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was president for almost 4 years, He was a member of the Democratic Party, but later chose to not be a part of any party. During his presidency, Johnson offered rewards for Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, and Clement C. Clay, Jr.;s arrests. The 14th Amendment was passed, offering citizenship for african americans as well as overturning the Dred Scott decision. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was president for 8 years. He was a member of the Republican Party. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas were all readmitted into the Union in 1870. The Indian Appropriation Act was passed, ending the tribal system and the treaty system. Grant issued a proclamation against the KKK in South Carolina. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was passed, giving blacks equal rights in all public rights and prohibited jury duty exclusion. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B Hayes was president for four years. He was a member of the Republican party. During his presidency, Hayes sent troops to the Mexico-Texas border to settle border disputes. Congress passed the Army Apporopriations Bill which forbade "the use of federal troops at polls". The Democratic National Convention met in Ohio and nominated Union Commander Winfield S. Hancock for President and William H. English for vice president. Hayes waas not re-elected. -
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was president for 6 short months. He was a member of the Republican Party.He served in the Union Army before becoming president. Garfield's doctors were unable to find the bullet in his body and he died from blood poisoning as a result. Chester A Arthur took place as president as a result. -
Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur was president for almost 4 years. He was a member of the Republican Party. During his presidency, Secretary of State James G. Blaine resigned because of political disagreements with Arthur. The Geneva Convention of 1864 was ratified by the Senate "for the care of wounded war personnel". The "Mongrel Tariff Act" was passed which reduced the tariff by about 2 percent. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was president for 4 years. He was a member of the Republican Party, During the first year of his presidency, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington were all admitted into the Union. Then, the Dependent Pension Bill was passed which gave benefits to veterans and their families. Idaho and Wyoming were admitted in 1890. Harrison was not reelected. -
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was president for 4 years. He was a member of the Democratic Party. During his presidency, the Statue of Liberty was finished and dedicated. Cleveland signed the Dawes General Allotment Act, which was an attempt at assimiliation with the Indians. In 1888, the Department of Labor was established. Cleveland accepted the Democratic nomination for presidency, but was not reelected. -
William McKinley
One term republican president, later assassinated. Led Spanish-american War victory, protective tariffs, and gold standard to reject inflation. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Two term preisdent as leader of Republican Party and Progressive Movement, came into office after McKinley assassination. Regulated businesses/trust-busting. Square Deal, built around average middle class citizen -
William Howard Taft
One term president as Republican. Emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, passing of Sixteenth Amendemnt, allowing Congress to levy income tax without state. -
Woodrow Wilson
Two term president as democrat. Led Progressive Movement, advocated women's suffrage movement, & Clayton Antitrust Act prohibiting exemption, conduct, enforcement scheme etc. -
Warren G. Harding
President for over two years until dying in office of natural causes. Republican. Teapot-Dome Scandal involving bribery with land and oil reserves. Fordney-Mccumber Tariff of 1922 as US isolationism around WWI -
Calvin Coolidge
President after Hardings death for six years as Republican. Enforced Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, signing peace amongst 62 nations -
Herbert Hoover
Republican in office for one term. President throughout Great Depression, did not do much to improve economy. Hoovervilles occured through Depression, shanty towns built within the city by the unemployed, Hawley-Smooth Tariff of 1930, highest tariff in US history -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Served office as democrat for almost three terms, only president to ever do so. World War II, enacted New Deal to end economic depression, Neutrality Acts outawed sale of arms to nations at war. Died of natural causes in office -
Harry S. Truman
Two term presidency, Marshall Plan of spending $12.5 billion over course of four years to provide financial aid to Europe, Taft-Harley Act in response to unions liability (non-communist oath), Truman Doctrine economically and financially supposting Greece and Turkey -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Two term president as Republican. Enforced 22nd Amendment , legally stating limitation of two terms of presidency (although it had usually been done in tradition), Brown vs. Board of Education overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, Eisenhower Doctrine in repsonse to Middle East, providing financial aid to free nations in threat of communism -
John F. Kennedy
Served less than one term as democrat until being assassinated. Baker vs. Carr in 1962 opened up federal courts to involve self, reappointing cases. New Frontier, new laws to improve stagnant economy among other issues -
Lyndon B. Johnson
One term preisdent as democrat, increasing involvement in Vietnam War, Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing discrimination and racial segregation (legally but did not ultimately effective), Great Society which held universal improvement (health programs, segregation, education, enviroment, etc) -
Richard Nixon
President for over four years until resigning at the beginning of second term to avoid impeachment. Republican. Ultimately ended Vietnam War, involved in Watergate Scandal, break in of Democratic party headquarters leading to resignition -
Gerald R. Ford
One term president as republican. OPEC Crisis, lacked oil supply later found in Alaska to solve energy crisis, Proclomation 4311, pardoned Nixon of crimes committed against US during presidency -
Jimmy Carter
One term presidency as democrat. Salt II limitied nuclear weaponry, Iran Hostage Crisis, Iranian's took US Embassy staff hostage in Iran, Camp David Accords, peace signing of Irael and Egypt -
Ronald Reagan
Two term president as republican, previously a famous actor. Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in 1982, Boland Amendment in 1984 in response to the Democrats against policies in Nicaragua, Reagonomics, montearist fiscal policy plan for budget cuts and tax cuts -
George H. W. Bush
Bush served for one term as Republican. Persian Gulf War of 1990-1, removing Iraq forces from Kuwait, Start I & II, regarding reduction of nuclear weapons, land missles, warheads etc. -
Bill Clinton
Clinton served president for eight years as a Democrat. During then he launched NAFTA, eliminating trade barriers in North America, the National Health Care system of 1993, and Domestic policies which cut down spending in national defense, raising taxes for those of higher income, and straying away from the New Deal. -
George W. Bush
Bush served presient for eight years. He is a member of the Republican party. During presidency he launched the Patriot Act of 2001 in response to 9/11, allowing massive government survelliance and control as well as detention control. No Child Left Behind in 2002 regarding education, standarized testing, and federal funding. Global Financial Crisis of 2008 regarding the collapse in insurance, real estate, and banking companies resulting in the collapse of the economy -
Barack Obama
Obama has been president for five years and counting. He is a member of the Democratic party. During his presidency he has launched Obamacare, aiming to lower the cost of healthcare and increasing health insurance coverage, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to decrease unemployent rate, and American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, higher tax rate to those of higher income and lowering Bush tax cuts
