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George washington
1789-1797 born in Virginia federalist Bill of Rights Whiskey Rebellion cotton gin called father of his country
John Adams
1797-1801 Massachusetts federalist XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts midnight appointments
Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809 Virginia Democratic / Republican Marbury versus Madison Barbary Pirates burr conspiracy, Burr and Hamilton duel, Louisiana Purchase ,Lewis and Clark ,Clermont Steamboat
James Madison
1809-1817 Virginia Democratic Republican Embargo Act War of 1812 called father of the Constitution
John Quincy Adams
1825-1829 Massachusetts Democratic / Republican Baltimore Ohio Railroad begins Construction Erie Canal opens photography
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837 South Carolina Democrats Indian Removal Alamo Falls to Santa Ana Nullification Crisis Texas Independence Black Hawk War Jackson versus Second Bank of us nicknamed Old Hickory
Martin Van Buren
1837-1841 New York Democrat Trails of Tears Panic of 1837 Telegraph
William Henry Harrison
1841 Virginia whig first president to die in office serve the shortest term in office nickname old Tippecanoe
John Tyler
1841-1845 Virginia whig Irish and German immigration Oregon Trail signs Texas annexation
James K Polk
1845-1849 North Carolina Democrats Texas annexation Manifest Destiny California Gold Rush Oregon treaty Mexican war Seneca Falls Convention
Zachary Taylor
1849-1850 Virginia whig Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act second president to die in office nickname old Rough and Ready
Millard Fillmore
1850-1853 New York whig Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Franklin Pierce
1853-1857 New Hampshire Democrat Underground Railroad Gadsden purchase boom time for railroad building Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas
James Buchanan
1857-1861 Pennsylvania Democrat Dred Scott Lincoln Dash Douglas debate Pony Express John Brown’s raid Harpers Ferry
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865 Kentucky Republican succession Civil War emancipation Lincoln’s assassination Gettysburg Address nickname Honest Abe
Ulysses S Grant
1869-1877 Ohio Republican completion of the Transcontinental Railroad telephone Susan B Anthony reconstruction ends
1215
Magna Carta limited the power of the king
1607
Jamestown Virginia first permanent English settlement
1619
Establishment of House of Burgesses first representative assembly in America
1620
Limit first English colony in the Northeast
1639
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut first written Constitution
1660’s
Navigation Acts series of laws passed by England to regulate colonists trade so England would make money
1730-40
Great Awakening religious movement and colonies
1754-63
French and Indian War remove French from North America beginning of problems between England and colonies
1763
Treaty of Paris officially ended French and Indian War Proclamation of 1763 colonists forbidden by England to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
1764
Sugar Act tax on molasses one of many events in green colonists which led to American Revolution
1765
Stamp Act tax on legal documents newspapers licenses diplomas dice playing cards also led to American Revolution
1766
Quartering Act British soldiers could stay in colonist homes angered colonist
1767
Townshend Acts text Goods such as glass paper silk lead and teeth
1770
Boston Massacre first civilians killed by British soldiers
1773
Boston Tea Party key symbolic Act of rebellion
1773
Tea Act led to Boston Tea Party