Presidential Organizer
George
1789
Washington
1797
(Independent)
John Adams
1797
(Federalist)
1801
Thomas Jefferson
1801
(Republican)
1809
James Madison
1809
(Republican)
1817
James Monroe
1817
(Republican)
1825
John Quincy
1825
Adams
1829
(Republican)
7
Andrew Jackson
1829
(Democrat)
1837
Judiciary Act of 1789
First B.U.S., 1791
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Jays Treaty, 1795
Pinckneys Treaty, 1795
Farewell Address, 1796
XYZ Affair, 1791
11th Amendment, 1798
Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798
Judiciary Act of 1801
Second Great Awakening, 1801
Marbury v Madison, 1803
Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
12th Amendment, 1804
Cumberland Road, 1806
Embargo Act, 1807
Prohibited slave trade in US, 1808
Non-Intercourse Act, 1809
Macon Bill No. 2, 1810
Fletcher v Peck, 1810
War hawks (John C Calhous/Henry Clay), 1811
Tecumseh, 1811
War of 1812
Hartford Convention, 1814
Immigration of Irish/Germans, 1815
Erie Canal, 1817
Panic of 1819, followed by Depression of 1819-1821
Dartmouth College v Woodward, 1819
Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
McCulloch v Maryland, 1819
First steamship to Europe, 1819
Missouri Compromise, 1820
Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Gibbons v Ogden, 1824
American System, 1824
Tariff of 1824
Corrupt Bargain, 1825
Railroad construction, 1826
Webster publishes dictionary, 1828
Tariff of Abominations, 1828
Spoils System, 1829
Indian Removal Act, 1830
Cherokee Nation v Georgia, 1831
Underground Railroad, 1831
Bank veto issue, 1832
Black Hawk War, 1832
Worcester v Georgia, 1832
Martin Van Buren
1837
(Democrat)
1841
William Henry
1841
Harrison (Whig)
1
John Tyler
1841
(Whig)
1845
James K Polk
1845 -
(Democrat)
1849
Zachary Taylor
1849
2
1
(Whig)
Millard Fillmore
1850
1850 -
(Whig)
1853
Franklin Pierce
1853
(Democrat)
1857
James Buchanan
1857
(Democrat)
1861
Abraham Lincoln
1861
(Republican)
1865
Whig Party formed, 1832
10-hour work day, 1834
Trail of Tears, 1835
Republic of Texas, 1836
Specie circular adopted, 1836
Panic of 1837
Telegraph, 1837
Log Cabin Campaign, 1840
Last president to be born a British subject, 1841
Died of pneumonia, 1841
Shortest tenure, 1841
Oregon trail, 1842
Commonwealth v Hunt, 1842
Typewriter, 1843
Immigration of Scandinavians (NY, WI, MN), Irish (NY,
NE) , Germans (NY, MD, OH, TX), 1843
Nativism, 1843
54O 40 Oregon border dispute, 1844
Florida enters Union, 1845
Manifest Destiny, 1845
Mexican War, 1846
Wilmot Proviso, 1846
Gold rush, 1848
Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, 1848
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Free Soil Party, 1848
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850
Died of stomach illness, 1850
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
Sewing machine, 1851
American Party, 1853
Gadsden Purchase, 1853
Ostend Manifesto, 1854
Peak of Chinese immigration, 1854
Bleeding Kansas, 1856
Pottawatomie Massacre, 1856
Preston Brooks attacks Sumner with a cane, 1856
Dred Scott decision, 1857
Lecompton Constitution, 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Pony Express mail, 1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president/SC, MS, FL, AL,
GA, LU secede, 1860
Jefferson Davis elected president of Confederates,
1861
Civil War, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run, 1861
Homestead Act, 1862
Union Pacific Rail Road, 1862
Andrew Johnson
1865
(Republican)
1869
Ulysses S Grant
1869
(Republican)
1877
Rutherford B
1877
Hayes
1881
(Republican)
James A Garfield
1881
(Republican)
Chester A Arthur
1881
(Republican)
1885
Grover Cleveland
1885
(Democrat)
1889
Battle of Antietam, 1862
Emancipation Declaration, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
Reconstruction Proclamation of Amnesty, 1865
13th Amendment, 1865
Black Codes, 1865
KKK, 1866
Cattle drive, 1866
Dynamite, 1866
Alaska purchase, 1867
Granger Movement, 1867
14th Amendment, 1868
Burlingame Treaty, 1868
National Woman Suffrage Association, 1869
Knights of Labor, 1869
Standard Oil Company, 1870
15th Amendment, 1870
Tammany Hall, 1871
Yellowstone National Park, 1872
Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872
Greenback Party, 1873
Jim Crow Laws, 1875
Telephone, 1876
End of Reconstruction, 1877
Railroad strikes, 1877
Anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco, 1877
Bland-Allison Act, 1878
Greenback Labor Party, 1878
Thomas Edison, 1878
The Salvation Army, 1880
Gustavus Swift makes refrigerated railcar, 1881
American Red Cross, 1881
Tuskegee Institute, 1881
C. Julius Guiteau shoots the president, 1881
John D Rockefeller takes over Standard Oil Trust, 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Buffalo Bills Wild West show, 1883
Pendleton Civil Service Act, 1883
Time zones, 1883
Treaty with Hawaii/Pearl Harbor, 1884
Huckleberry Finn, 1884
Union Pacific Railroad Strike, 1884
First skyscraper in Chicago, 1885
Immigration of Poles and Hungarians (Chicago),
Italians and Jews (NY), Irish and Greeks (Boston),
1885
Haymarket Riot, 1886
Statue of Liberty, 1886
American Federation of Labor/Samuel Gompers, 1886
Benjamin Harrison
1889
(Republican)
1893
Grover Cleveland
1893
(Democrat)
1897
William McKinley
1897
(Republican)
1901
Theodore
1901
Roosevelt
1908
(Republican)
William Howard
1909
Taft (Republican)
1913
Woodrow Wilson
1913
(Democrat)
1921
Interstate Commerce Act, 1887
Vetoes Veterans Dependent Pension Bill, 1887
Hull House, 1889
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
Yosemite National Park, 1890
Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890
US Circuit Court of Appeals, 1891
Populist Party, 1892
Panic of 1893
American Railway Union/Eugene V Debs, 1893
Pullman Strike, 1894
Labor Day, 1894
Coxeys Army, 1894
Cuban Revolution, 1895
Plessy v Ferguson, 1896
First automobile, 1896
Sale of Philippines for $20 million, 1899
Open Door Policy, 1899
Gold Standard Act 1900
Gentlemans Agreement, 1900
Kodak makes $1 camera, 1900
Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, assassinated the
president, 1901
Panama Canal, 1901
First flight, 1903
Roosevelts Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
Arbitration of Russo-Japanese War, 1905
Niagara Movement, 1905
Muckraker journalists, 1906
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Hepburn Act, 1906
US fleets world tour, 1907
Grand Canyon National Monument, 1908
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, 1909
US intervention in Nicaragua, 1909
Live radio broadcasting, 1909
Mann-Elkins Act, 1910
Publicity Act, 1910
Boy Scouts, 1910
Girl Scouts, 1912
Dollar Diplomacy, 1912
Progressive Party, 1912
16th Amendment, 1913
17th Amendment, 1913
World War I, 1914 1918
Panama Canal opens, 1914
Clayton Act, 1914
8-hour workday, 1916
Warren G Harding
1921
(Republican)
1923
Calvin Coolidge
1923
(Republican)
1929
Herbert Hoover
1929
(Republican)
1933
Franklin D.
1933 -
Roosevelt
1945
(Democrat)
Harry S Truman
1945
(Democrat)
1953
Dwight D
1953
Eisenhower
1961
(Republican)
National Park Service, 1916
US Railroad Act, 1917
Fourteen Points, 1918
Daylight savings time, 1918
Treaty of Versailles, 1919
19th Amendment, 1920
Jazz Age, 1922
Washington Naval Conference, 1921
Time Magazine, 1923
Snyder Act of 1924
IBM established, 1924
US troops land in China, 1925
Al Capone, 1925
Revenue Act, 1926
Mickey Mouse, 1928
The Great Depression, 1929
Amelia Earhart, 1932
20th Amendment, 1933
Adolf Hitler, 1933
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, 1933
First woman named to presidential cabinet, 1933
Phase I of New Deal, 1933-1935
Repeal of gold standard, 1933
21st Amendment, 1933
Mao ZeDong, 1934
Phase II of New Deal, 1935-1938
WPA, 1935
Social Security Act 1935
Japan invades China, 1937
WWII begins, 1939
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
D-Day, 1944
Atomic bomb dropped to end WWII, 1945
Vietnam declares independence, 1945
Winston Churchills Iron Curtain Speech, 1946
Truman Doctrine, 1947
Marshall Plan, 1947
Progressive party is formed, 1948
Fair Deal, 1949
NATO, 1949
Korean War, 1950
22nd Amendment, 1951
End Korean War, 1953
Vietnam divided, 1954
Elvis Presley, 1954
Brown v Board of Education, 1954
Rosa Parks is arrested, 1955
Warsaw Pact formed, 1955
McDonalds, 1955
Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1957
John F Kennedy
1961
(Democrat)
1963
Lyndon B Johnson
1963
(Democrat)
1968
Richard M Nixon
1968
(Republican)
1974
Gerald Ford
1974 -
(Republican)
1976
Jimmy Carter
1977 -
(Democrat)
1981
Ronald Reagan
1981
(Republican)
1989
George Bush
1989
(Republican)
1993
Sputnik, 1957
NASA established, 1958
Fidel Castro, 1959
OPEC forms, 1960
The New Frontier Speech, 1961
23rd Amendment, 1961
Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961
Peace Corps established, 1961
Berlin Wall erected, 1961
Housing Act of 1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in orbit, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Ich bin ein Berliner Speech, 1963
I Have a Dream speech, 1963
Church bombing in Alabama, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the president in
Dallas, 1963
24th Amendment, 1964
Appalachian Program, 1965
Malcolm X assassinated, 1965
Medicare Act of 1965
US enters Vietnam War, 1965
Water and Air quality acts, 1965
35th Amendment, 1967
PBS and NPR established, 1967
MLK Jr, is assassinated, 1968
Moon landing, 1969
Woodstock, 1969
Invasion of Cambodia, 1970
EPA, 1970
26th Amendment, 1971
Roe v Wade, 1973
OPEC embargo, 1973
Nixon resigns, 1974
Pardons Richard Nixon, 1974
Evacuate Vietnam, 1975
Helsinki Accords, 1975
Pardons Vietnam draft evaders, 1977
Economic depression, 1977
End recognition of Taiwan, 1978
Tree-Mile Island nuclear leak in PA, 1979
Department of Education established, 1979
US boycotts Olympic games in Moscow in protest of
Afghanistans invasion, 1980
ATC strike disbanded, 1981
High unemployment, 1982
Soviets boycott Olympic games in LA, 1984
Chernobyl disaster, 1986
Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China, 1989
Berlin Wall comes down, 1989
Bill Clinton
1993
(Democrat)
2001
George W Bush
2001
(Republican)
2009
Iraq invades Kuwait, 1990
27th Amendment, 1992
End of Cold War, 1992
Dont Ask, Dont Tell military policy, 1994
Republicans take over House for first time in 40 years,
1994
Economic growth, 1999
Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russian
Federation, 2000
September 11 attacks, 2001
War with Afghanistan, 2001
US Patriot Act, 2001
No Child Left Behind Act, 2002
War with Iraq, 2003
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
700 mile fence along the Mexican border, 2006
Farewell Address, 2009
