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Period: to
George Washington
-Westmoreland County, VA
-local school, self taught
-French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War, and Quasi-War with France
-No previous office held.
-Father of his Country
Important Event:
-May 29, 1790
Ratifying the Constitution
-December 13, 1790
Creating a national bank
-December 15, 1791
Ratifying the Bill of Rights
-May 18, 1793
Receiving french envoy
-July 1, 1794
Farmers' rebellion -
Period: to
John Adams
From: Braintree, MA
Education: Harvard University
Military: Head of the War and Ordnance Board
Previous Offices held: Served U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe
Important:
-October 18, 1797
XYZ Affair
-April 3, 1798
XYZ Affair exposed
-April 3, 1798
XYZ Affair exposed
-July 6, 1798
Alien Enemies Act
-April 4, 1800
Federal Bankruptcy Act -
Period: to
Thomas Jefferson
From: Shadwell, VA
Education: College of William & Mary in Williamsburg
Military: responsible for providing militia soldiers as replacements for the Virginia regiments of the Continental Army.
Previous Offices held: Vice President of the United States. Virginia State Delegate. .
Important:
-February 24, 1803
Marbury v. Madison Decided
-April 30, 1803
Louisiana Purchase
-September 25, 1804
Ratifying the Twelfth Amendment
-June 4, 1805
Treaty of Peace and Amity in Tripoli -
Period: to
James Madison
From: Belle Grove
Education: Princeton University. The College of New Jersey.
Military: colonel and commander of the Orange County Regiment, Virginia Militia
Previous Offices held: Representative. United States Secretary of States
Important:
-November 5, 1811
War message
-January 10, 1812
Army bill
-June 1, 1812
War message
-June 18, 1812
Declaration of war
-January 18, 1813
Winchester's battle -
Period: to
James Monroe
From: Monroe Hall, VA
Education: Williams in Mary. Campbelltown Academy.
Military: Third Virginia Infantry
Previous Offices held: US Secretary of War. Senator VA. Governor of Virginia.
Important:
-January 1, 1819
The Panic of 1819
-February 22, 1819
The Transcontinental Treaty
-March 2, 1821
Military Establishment Act
- December 2, 1823
Monroe Doctrine Announced
-May 22, 1824
Tariff of 1824 -
Period: to
John Quincy Adams
From: Braintree MA
Education: Harvard University
Military: Adams served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Previous Offices held: United States Minister for Russia. United States Ambassador to United Kingdom. United States Secretary of States.
Important:
-March 1, 1827
Ports closed to British
-December 1, 1827
MFN Trade System
-January 1, 1828
Mexican Boundary settlement
-February 1, 1828
Nicaraguan Canal is proposed
-May 11, 1828
Tariff of Abominations -
Period: to
Andrew Jackson
From: Waxhaws
Education: sporadic education.
Military: commissioned a major general in the Regular Army of the United States to fight the British at Pensacola
Previous Offices held: Senator, TN
Important:
-May 27, 1830
Jackson vetoes Maysville Road bill
-April 1, 1831
Peggy Eaton Affair
-December 10, 1832
Nullification Proclamation
-March 1, 1833
Force Bill
-December 1, 1834
Jackson terminates national debt -
Period: to
Martin Van Buren
From: Kinderhook, NY
Education: Claverack College
Military: n/a
Previous Offices held: VP of the US. US Ambassador to United Kingdom. Governor of New York.
Important:
-May 10, 1837
The Panic of 1837
-September 11, 1838
Arbitration commission
-May 1, 1839
The Comet and the Encomium
August 26, 1839
Seizing the Amistad
-July 4, 1840
Independent Treasury Act -
Period: to
William Henry Harrison
From: Berkley Plantation, VA
Education: Uni. of Pennsylvania
Military: major general in the Army during the War of 1812
Previous Offices held: Senator, OH. United States Minister to Gran Colombia
Important: Defeated the combined British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh. -
Period: to
John Tyler
From: Greenway Plantation, VA
Education: William & Mary
Military: Charles City Rifles, a local militia company formed to defend Richmond.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, VA Senator
Important:
August 9, 1842
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
-April 12, 1844
The Texas Annexation Treaty
-May 24, 1844
First telegraph line completed
-February 28, 1845
Texas annexation
-March 1, 1845
President Tyler Signs Joint Resolution for Texas Annexation -
Period: to
James Knox Polk
From: Pineville, NC
Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Military: Extended the territory of the United States through the Mexican–American War during his presidency
Previous Offices held: Governor of Tennessee, Representative of TN.
Important:
-July 1, 1845
"Manifest Destiny"
-May 13, 1846
War with Mexico
-June 15, 1846
The Oregon Treaty
-August 6, 1846
Independent Treasury Law
-February 22, 1847
Mexico defeated -
Period: to
Zachary Taylor
From: Orange County, VA
Education: basic education
Military: He enlisted at the age of twenty-two and became an officer in the United States Army in 1808.
Previous Offices held: n/a
Important: May 1, 1850
Compromise of 1850 -
Period: to
Millard Fillmore
From: Summer Hill, NY
Education: He became prominent in the Buffalo area as an attorney and politician.
Military: n/a ?
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States. NY State Comptroller
Important:
-August 6, 1850
Fillmore supports Compromise of 1850
-September 18, 1850
Fugitive Slave Bill
-January 2, 1851
Treaty with El Salvador
-November 14, 1851
Moby Dick published
-August 24, 1852
Marx published in New York Tribune -
Period: to
Franklin Pierce
From: Hillsborough, NH
Education: Bowdoin College, Phillips Exeter Academy, Northampton Law School.
Military:
Previous Offices held: Brigade commander in General Winfield Scott's army.
Important:
-May 30, 1854, President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
-June 5, 1854
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
-February 10, 1855
Nationality laws amended
-May 22, 1856
Sumner-Brooks Affair
-February 21, 1857
Foreign coins declared illegal -
Period: to
James Buchanan
From: Cove Gap, PA
Education: Dickinson College.
Military: Buchanan served in a reserve unit during the War of 1812.
Previous Offices held: US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Secretary of State, Senator, PA.
Important:
-September 7, 1857
Mountain Meadow Massacre
-May 4, 1858
English Bill Passed
-July 5, 1859
Fourth Kansas Constitutional Convention
-December 18, 1860
Crittenden Compromise
-January 8, 1861
Buchanan’s Final Message -
Period: to
Abraham Lincoln
From: Laure Country, KY
Education: self-educated
Military: Illinois Militia
Previous Offices held: Illinois State Representative
Important:
-April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter
-September 22, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation
-January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
-July 5, 1864
Horace Greeley negotiations
-January 31, 1865
Thirteenth Amendment -
Period: to
Andrew Johnson
From: Raleigh, NC
Education: no school
Military: Military Governor of Tennessee
Previous Offices held: Senator, TN
Important:
-May 29, 1865
Johnson grants amnesty
-February 22, 1866
Johnson denounces "Radical Republicans"
-June 19, 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
-March 30, 1867
"Seward's icebox"
-February 24, 1868
House of Representatives votes to impeach Johnson
-March 5, 1868
Impeachment trial begins -
Period: to
Ulysses S. Grant
From: Point Pleasant, OH.
Education: United States Military Academy
Military: He was charged with training volunteers for war, and was soon promoted to Brigadier General of volunteers.
Previous Offices held: United States Interim Secretary of War. Commanding General of the United States.
Important:
-May 10, 1869
Transcontinental railroad completed
-March 30, 1870
Fifteenth Amendment
-May 8, 1871
Treaty of Washington
-January 10, 1875
Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty… -
Period: to
Rutherford B. Hayes
From: Delaware, OH
Education: Harvard Uni., Kenyon College
Military: 23rd Ohio Infantry
Previous Offices held: Governor of Ohio
Important:
-June 22, 1877
Civil service reform
-January 1, 1878
Knights of Labor
- May 29, 1879
Hayes vetoes appropriations bill
-March 8, 1880
Hayes supports a canal
-November 17, 1880
The U.S. and China -
Period: to
James Garfield
From: Moreland Hills,, OH
Education: Hiram College, Williams College
Military: Brigadier general.
Previous Offices held: Representative
Important:
-March 5, 1881
Garfield selects his cabinet
-May 4, 1881
Filibuster begins
- July 2, 1881
Garfield Shot,
-July 4, 1881
Normal School for Colored Teachers established -
Period: to
Chester A. Arthur
From: Fairfield, VT
Education: State and National Law School, Union College.
Military: Active member of the New York Militia, renamed the National Guard New York in 1862.
Previous Offices held:
-December 15, 1881
Secretary of State Resigns
-May 6, 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act revised
-January 16, 1883
Civil Service Reform Act
-May 13, 1884
Test Oath repealed
-July 4, 1884
Statue of Liberty presented -
Period: to
Grover Cleveland
From: Caldwell, NJ
Education: elementary education
Military: avoided military service
Previous Offices held: Governor of New York
Important:
-January 19, 1886
Cleveland Signs Presidential Succession Act
-December 6, 1887
Cleveland addresses Congress
-June 13, 1888
Department of Labor established
-February 4, 1887
Interstate Commerce Commission
-February 8, 1887
Cleveland Signs Dawes Act -
Period: to
Benjamin Harrison
From: North Bend, OH
Education: Miami University, Farmers College
Military: Helped from the 70th Indiana Infantry and commanded a regiment as a colonel.
Previous Offices held: Senator, IN
Important:
-October 2, 1889
First Pan-American Conference
-July 2, 1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-October 16, 1891
Escalating conflict with Chile
-January 26, 1892
Chile backs down
-January 17, 1893
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii deposed -
Period: to
Grover Cleveland
From: Caldwell, NJ
Education: elementary education
Military: avoided military service
Previous Offices held: Governor of New York
Important:
-January 17, 1894
U.S. Treasury Bonds
-February 24, 1895
Cuba revolts
-January 6, 1896
Expanding federal debt
-February 9, 1897
Cleveland vetoes illiteracy ban -
Period: to
William McKinley
From: Niles, OH
Education: Allegheny College, Albany Law School
Military: 23d Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Poland Guards”
Previous Offices held: Governor of Ohio, Representative
Important:
-July 14, 1897
Alaskan gold
- April 19, 1898
Authorizing American intervention in Cuba
-February 15, 1898
Maine explodes
-May 1, 1898
War at Manila Bay
-June 24, 1898
Battle of Las Guasimas -
Period: to
William Howard Taft
From: Cincinnati, OH
Education: Yale Uni., University of Cincinnati
Military: no military experience
Previous Offices held: Provisional Governor of Cuba, United States Secretary of War, Governor General of the Philippines
Important:
-November 18, 1909
Warships to Nicaragua
-June 25, 1910
Mann Act
-March 7, 1911
Mobilizing along Mexican border
-May 15, 1911
Dissolution of Standard Oil
-February 25, 1913
Sixteenth Amendment ratified -
Period: to
Theodore Roosevelt
From: New York, NY
Education: Harvard College, Friends Seminary
Military: Lead Rough Riders.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, Governor of New York, Assistant Secretary of the Navy of the United States, NY State representative
Important:
-April 29, 1902
Chinese Exclusion Act
-November 3, 1903
Revolt in Panama
-March 14, 1904
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-January 21, 1905
Trade agreements with the Dominican Republic
-December 16, 1907
The Great White Fleet -
Period: to
Woodrow Wilson
From: Staunton, VA
Education: Johns Hopkins University, Princeton Uni., Davidson College.
Military: authorize a massive shipbuilding program for the United States.
Previous Offices held: Governor of New Jersey
Important:
-May 31, 1913
Seventeenth Amendment
-August 27, 1913
Foreign policy with Mexico
-December 23, 1913
Federal Reserve Act
-August 15, 1914
The Panama Canal officially opens
-July 17, 1916
Federal Farm Labor Act
-January 8, 1918
Wilson's "14 Points" -
Period: to
Warren G. Harding
From: Blooming Grove, OH
Education: Ohio Central College
Military: n/a
Previous Offices held: Senator, OH. Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Ohio State Senator
Important:
-November 23, 1921
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act
-April 7, 1922
The Teapot Dome Scandal
-January 10, 1923
Final troops leave Germany
-January 29, 1923
Head of Veterans' Bureau resigns
-May 4, 1923
New York repeals prohibition enforcement -
Period: to
Calvin Coolidge
From: Plymouth, VT
Education: Amherst College, St. Johnsbury Academy
Military: Armory for Northampton
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, Governor of MA, Lieutenant Governor of MA, MA state senator, President of MA senate.
Important: May 26 – Coolidge signs the Immigration Act of 1924 into law. June 2 – Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act and the Revenue Act of 1924 into law. June 7 – Coolidge signs the Anti-Heroin Act of 1924 into law. -
Period: to
Herbert Hoover
From: West Branch, IA
Education: Stanford University, George Fox Uni.
Military: Lead Food Administration during WW1p
Previous Offices held: United States Secretary of Commerce, Director of the United States Food Administration
Important: July 3 – Hoover signs the Veterans Administration Act, authorizing the formation of the Veterans' Administration.
July 7 – Construction on the Hoover Dam begins.
-October 29, 1929
"Black Tuesday"
-July 28, 1932
Hoover Orders Bonus Army Dispersed -
Period: to
Franklin D. Roosevelt
From: Hyde Park, NY
Education: Columbia Law School, Groton School, Harvard Uni., Columbia Uni.
Military: Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1919)
Previous Offices held: Governor of NY, NY State Senator, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Of the US.
Important:
-August 14, 1935
FDR signs the Social Security Act
-August 31, 1935
FDR signs the Neutrality Act
-June 25, 1938
FDR signs the Fair Labor Stand. Roosevelt avoided labor strikes -
Period: to
Harry S. Truman
From: Lamar, MO
Education: UMKC School of Law, William Chrisman High School
Military: First lieutenant, Missouri National Guard, 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, Battery F.
Previous Offices held: Vice President of the United States, Senator, MO.
Important:
-August 6, 1945
Dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
-August 9, 1945
Dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki
-September 6, 1945
Truman’s 21-point plan
-March 12, 1947
Truman delivers “Truman Doctrine” speech
-July 26, 1947
National Security Act -
Period: to
Dwight D. Einshower
From: Denison, TX
Education: US Army War College, US Military Academy, Command and General Staff College
Military: Allied Supreme Commander and five-star General of the Army
Previous Offices held: Supreme Commander of NATO
Important:
-April 16, 1953
Eisenhower delivers “Chance for Peace” speech
-June 19, 1953
Rosenberg execution
-July 18, 1955
Geneva Conference opens
-September 24, 1957
Little Rock
-October 4, 1957
Sputnik launched -
Period: to
John F. Kennedy
From: Brookline, MA
Education: Harvard College, Princeton Uni.
Military: Joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. Commanded PT boats in the Pacific
Previous Offices held: Senator, MA, Representative
Important:
-May 4, 1961
First Freedom Ride
-August 13, 1961
East Germany begins Berlin Wall
-October 22, 1962
Kennedy Announces Cuban Missile Crisis
-September 30, 1962
James Meredith desegregates University of Mississippi -
Period: to
Lyndon B. Johnson
From: Stonewall, TX
Education: Texas State Uni., Georgetown Uni. Law Center
Military: Served in the Pacific until 1942.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, Senator, Tx, Representative, TX 10th district.
Important:
-May 22, 1964
Johnson’s Great Society
-February 21, 1965
Malcolm X assassinated
-March 15, 1965
Johnson calls voting legislation
-March 21, 1965
Selma to Montgomery march
-June 13, 1967
Thurgood Marshall nominated to Supreme Court -
Period: to
Richard Nixon
From: Yorba Linda, CA
Education: Duke Uni. School of Law, Whittier College
Military: Commander in WWll Pacific War.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, Senator CA, Representative, CA 12th District.
Important:
- July 25, 1969
The "Nixon Doctrine"
-February 21, 1972
Nixon arrives in China
-October 20, 1973
Saturday Night Massacre
-July 24, 1974
U.S. v Nixon
-August 8, 1974
Nixon resigns -
Period: to
Gerald Ford
From: Omaha, NE
Education: Yale Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan
Military: Enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, Representative MI.
Important:
-September 8, 1974
Ford pardons Nixon
-January 4, 1975
Commission to review CIA abuses
-March 27, 1975
Saigon falls, America withdraws
-July 21, 1976
Inflation rate drops
-August 6, 1976
Employment rises -
Period: to
Jimmy Carter
From: Plains, GA
Education: Union College, US Naval Academy, Georgie Institute of Technology
Military: U.S. Naval Academy, US Navy submarine service
Previous Offices held: Governor of Georgia, Member of the Georgia State Senate
Important:
-December 31, 1977
Carter visits Shah of Iran
- September 5, 1978
Mediation at Camp David, Camp David Accords Signed
-July 15, 1979
A crisis of confidence
-November 4, 1979
Americans taken hostage in Tehran
-April 25, 1980
“Desert One” failure -
Period: to
Ronald Reagan
From: Tampico, IL
Education: Eureka College
Military: Enlisted in US Army Reserve, Des Moines' 322nd Cavalry Regiment, second lieutenant in Officers Reserve Corps.
Previous Offices held: Governor of California
Important:
-March 30, 1981
Reagan shot in chest
-October 23, 1983
Suicide bombers attack Lebanon
-November 26, 1986
Commission appointed to investigate Iran-Contra
- February 3, 1987
Water Quality Control Act
-December 7, 1987
Gorbachev, Reagan sign treaty -
Period: to
George H. W. Bush
From: Milton, MA
Education: Yale University, Davenport College
Military: Served in the Pacific Theatre as a Grumman TBF Avenger.
Previous Offices held: VP of the United States, United States Director of Central Intelligence. United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Important:
-June 4, 1989
Tiananmen Square Massacre
-November 9, 1989
Berlin Wall Falls
-January 17, 1991
Persian Gulf War Begins
-May 23, 1992
Nuclear Arms Reduction Agreements
-June 12, 1992
Bush Attends Earth Summit -
Period: to
Bill Clinton
From: Hope, AR
Education: Yale Law School, University College
Military: Did not serve.
Previous Offices held: Governor of Arkansas(two terms), Arkansas Attorney General
Important:
-October 3, 1993
Battle of Mogadishu
-December 8, 1993
NAFTA creates free trade zone, Clinton Signs NAFTA
-November 21, 1995
Principle peace in Bosnia
-August 22, 1996
Welfare restructured
-April 24, 1997
Chemical Weapons become illegal -
Period: to
George W. Bush
From: New Haven, CT
Education: Harvard Business School, Yale Uni., Davenport College
Military: Joined the 147th Fighter-Inceptor Group of the Texas air national guard during Vietnam war.
Previous Offices held: Governor of Texas
Important:
-September 11, 2001
September 11 Terrorist Attacks
-September 20, 2001
Targeting bin Laden; Tom Ridge appointed to Homeland Security
-December 13, 2001
Withdrawal from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
-March 22, 2002
Israeli-Palestine relations -
Period: to
Barack Obama
From: Honolulu, HI
Education: Harvard Law School, Columbia Uni., Occidental College, Punahou School
Military: n/a
Previous Offices held: Senator, Il, Member of the Illinois Senate
Important
-January 22, 2009
Executive order to close Guantánamo Bay
-: April 8, 2010
Reduction of nuclear arms
-July 19, 2013
“Trayvon Martin could have been me”
-July 21, 2014
LGBT discrimination
-March 7, 2015
50th anniversary of Selma marches -
Period: to
Donald Trump
From: New York, NY
Education: Wharton School of the Uni., Fordham University, Uni. of Pennsylvania
Military: NY Military Academy
Previous Offices held: n/a
Important:
-January 23, 2017
Global gag rule reinstated
-September 19, 2017
UN Address
-July 16, 2018
Trump meets with Putin
-December 18, 2019
Trump impeached
-February 26, 2020
White House Coronavirus Task Force created
-March 13, 2020
Pandemic becomes national emergency -
Period: to
Joe Biden
From: Scranton, PA
Education: Syracuse Uni. College of Law. Archmere Academy, Uni. of Delaware
Military: n/a
Previous Offices held: VP of the US. Senator, DE. New castle County Council Member.
Important: idk