The document provides information about US presidents from George Washington to Rutherford B. Hayes including key dates, events, and accomplishments during their terms. It lists the years each president served, notable legislation and treaties signed, military conflicts, economic issues, and territorial expansions that occurred under their leadership. Quotes from some presidents are also included about civic duties, government, and leadership.

1. George Washington
1789-97
December 15 ,1791
Ratification of the bill of rights
August 18, 1793
Signed Jay’s treaty - Treaty of Amity ,
Commerce and Navigation
“99% of failures come
from people who
make excuses.”
December 23 1789
Establishment of the United States Treasury
1794
Whiskey Rebellion
September 17, 1796
Farewell Address
John Adams
1797-1801
“If conscience
disapproves, the
loudest applauses of
the world are of little
value.”
July 22, 1797
Commencement of US Mint
January 8, 1798
The Eleventh amendment to the constitution is
ratified
April 7, 1798
Signs Act establishing the Mississippi Territory
on land acquired from Spain though the Treaty
of Madrid in 1795.
April 4, 1800
Signs the bankruptcy Acts which is repealed
by Congress in 1803
February 13, 1801
Signs the Judiciary Act of 1801 reorganizing
the federal judiciary

2. Thomas Jefferson
1801-09
April 30, 1803
Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed
in Paris
June 15, 1804
The Twelfth Amendment ratified - separates
votes for President and Vice-President
January 20, 1801
Nominates John Marshall to be Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court
April 18, 1806
“Non-importation Act” , prohibiting British
imports in protect against the impressment of
American sailors
January 9, 1809
Signs Enforcement Act, forbidding any
movements of goods with the goals of
exporting them
James Madison
1809-17
August 6, 1810
Third census almost doubling the population
counted in the first census of 1790.
April 8, 1812
Signs the bills admitting the State of Louisiana
to the Union
August 24, 1814
Washington D.C. invaded by
British. The White house is set of
fire.
February 18, 1815
Proclaims the ratification of the Treaty of
Ghent ending the War of 1812
December 11, 1816
The State of Indiana is admitted
to the Union.
“Timid men prefer the
calm of despotism to
the tempestuous sea of
liberty.”
"If men were angels, no
government would be
necessary."

3. John Monroe
1817-25
January 1, 1819
The panic of 1819 - Real Estate value, Cotton
price collapse - severe credit contraction/
March 6, 1820
Missouri Compromise (Maine as free state,
Missouri as slave state and restrict slavery to
state south of the latitude 36° 30’ north
December 3, 1818
Illinois is admitted as the twenty first state to
the Union.
December 14, 1818
Alabama is admitted as the twenty-second
state to the union
December 2, 1823
Monroe Doctrine announced
January 1, 1825
Concedes to Indian removal
John Quincy Adams
1825-29
October 26, 1825
Erie Canal completed. First passage of the
canal from Lake Erie to New York (363 miles).
July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, founding
fathers die
March 1, 1827
Ports closed to British over contention over
tariffs navigation and duties
January 1, 1828
Mexican boundary settlement
May 11, 1828
Tariff of Abominations
(high tariffs on raw
materials)
"Courage and
perseverance have a
magical talisman,
before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles
vanish into air."
"The best form of
government is that
which is most likely to
prevent the greatest
sum of evil"

4. Andrew Jackson
1829-37
December 10, 1832
Nullification proclamation forbidding states
and local governments from nullifying federal
laws
December 1, 1834
National debt termination freeing the United
States of foreign and domestic obligations
after the Treasury reserves are used.
May 26, 1830
Indian Removal act forcing the relocation of
indian tribes west of Mississippi river
March 1, 1833
Force Bill - Use of army to enforce federal law
in South Carolina
March 1, 1837
Recognized Texas independence declared one
year earlier.
Martin Van Buren
1837-41
May 10, 1837
The Panic of 1837 - Collapse of credit facility,
suspension of payments, aggravated by the
depression in England.
November 1, 1837
Rebellion in in Lower and Upper canada
against british sympathetic volunteers.
September 11, 1838
Commision to settle dispute claims with
Mexico
August 26, 1839
U.S.S. Washington seizes the mutinous ship
Amistad. Hearing begins on September 19,
1840
July 4, 1840
Independent Treasury Act (repealed by the
Whigs in 1841). Break the relationship of the
Treasury department and all banks
"It is easier to do a job
right than to explain
why you didn't."
"It is to be regretted
that the rich and
powerful too often bend
the acts of government
to their own selfish
purposes."

5. William H. Harrison
1841
March 17. 1841
Special Session of Congress on the national
economy
March 9, 1841
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the
Amistad mutineers.
April 4 1841
Died of pneumonia
John Tyler
1841-45
September 11, 1841
Cabinet resigns expect Secretary of State after
vetoes of the second bill for the National bank
establishment
August 9, 1842
Webster-Ashburton Treaty normalizing U.S.-
British relation
April 12, 1844
The Texas Annexation Treaty signed by the
United States and the Republic of Texas
May 24, 1844
First telegraph line completed
between Washington D.C and
Baltimore
May 4, 1841
National Day of Mourning
June 8, 1844
Texas Annexation Treaty fails short
of two-third majority in the
sensation and the question over
the western expansion of the nation
"I contend that the
strongest of all
governments is that
which is most free."
“The liberties of a
people depend on their
own constant attention
to its preservation."

6. James K. Polk
1845-49
May 13, 1846
Congress declares war on Mexico after clash
between American troup with Mexican troop
on the north bank of the Rio Grande
June 15, 1846
The Oregon Treaty - the 49th parallel as the
border between American and British.
July 1, 1845
Manifest Destiny - the expansion of the Union
throughout the American continents was
inevitable.
August 10, 1846
Smithsonian institution established
February 2, 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Ending the
mexican war and granting new territories to
the United States - California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming
Zachary Taylor
1849-50
August 11, 1849
Proclamation to warn American citizens in
participating in Cuba armed invasion
April 22, 1850
Send the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty for Senate
ratification - Neither Britain and United States
have exclusive rights for canal connecting
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in Nicaragua or
Panama
June 3, 1850
Advice Senatve about efforts to organize
Cuba invasion
"I have no private
purpose to accomplish,
no party objectives to
build up, no enemies to
punish-nothing to
serve but my country"
“No president who
performs his duties
faithfully and
conscientiously can
have any leisure."
July 7, 1850
Death from gastroenteritis

7. Millard Fillmore
1850-53
October 24, 1850
National women’s right convention held in
Worcester , MA to discuss opportunities for
woman in the society
September 20, 1850
Congress passed the Compromise of 12850
written by senator Henry Clay admitting CA as
free state and Utah/New Mexico organized
based on popular soverignty
September 18, 1850
Congress pass the Fugitive Slave Bill”
prohibiting any help to fugitive slaves
November 14, 1851
Moby Dick from Melville Herman is published
March 2, 1853
Transcontinental railroad is authorized . It will
take six years to complete
Franklin Pierce
1853-57
December 30, 1853
Gadsden purchase - Acquire more than 45000
square miles of northern Mexico
May 30, 1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act, reopening the question
of slavery in the West by repealing the
Missouri Compromise and use the popular
sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska
February 10, 1855
National laws amended to guarantee
American citizenship to asll children born
abroad from U.S. parents
May 22, 1856
Sumner-Brooks Affair - Representative Preston
Brooks (D-SC) attacks abolitionist Senator
Charles Sumner on the Senate floor
August 1, 1856
“Bleeding Kansas persists
"While men inhabiting
different parts of this
vast continent cannot
be expected to hold the
same opinions, they can
unite in a common
objective and sustain
common principles."
“The law is the only
sure protection of the
weak, and the only
efficient restraint upon
the strong."

8. James Buchanan
1857-61
January 4, 1858
Lecompton constitution - (Attempts to bring
Kabas to the union as slave state) defeated
October 16, 1859
Harper’s Ferry Raid - Unsuccessful raid by
John Brown to establish an abolitionist
republic in the Appalachians
March 6, 1857
Dred Scott Decision - slaves are not citizens
and slavery cannot be prohibited
December 18, 1860
Crittenden compromise - last attempt to
compromise to keep the Southern states in
the Union
December 20, 1860
South Carolina secedes - unanimously voted -
169-0
Abraham Lincoln
1861-65
April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter - South Carolina’s Confederates
army open fire on federal arsenal
March 9, 1862
Ironclad warfare establishing the Union’s
naval superiority over the Confederacy
January 1, 1863
Application of the Emancipation proclamation
- Free all the slaves in contested areas
January 31, 1865
House passes the Thirteenth Amendment
April 14, 1865
John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln at
the Ford’s theater
"America will never be
destroyed from the
outside. If we falter and
lose our freedoms, it
will be because we
destroyed ourselves."
“The ballot box is the
surest arbiter of
disputes among free
men.."

9. Andrew Johnson
1865-69
March 27, 1866
Vetoes the Civil Rights Act to provide
freedmen with citizenships. Senate and House
of Representatives overrides the veto few
weeks later.
June 19,1866
Fourteenth Amendment passed by the
Congress
December 2, 1865
Black code: Mississippi attempts to restrict the
rights of African American
March 5, 1868
Impeachment trial beginning presided by
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. Failed to
convict President Johnson by 1 vote
July 9, 1868
Submits Burlingame Treaty between United
States and China to Senate
Ulysses S.Grant
1869-77
May 19, 1869
Signs legislation establishing 8-hour work day
for federal employee.
February 3, 1870
Signs the 15th Amendment to the constitution
granting the right to vote to black males.
January 14, 1875
Signs the resumption Act returning to the gold
standard.
March 1, 1875
Civil rights Act passed
August 1, 1876
Colorado (38th state) enters the union
"The most confident
critics are generally
those who know the
least about the matter
criticized.."
“Honest conviction is
my courage; the
Constitution is my
guide."

10. Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881
June 18, 1878
Army Appropriation Acts to prohibit the use of
the US Army to execute the laws
January 1, 1879
Resume gold payments to civil war
Greenbacks
April 4, 1877
Orders away any federal troops from Southern
states marking the end of the reconstruction
October 15 1879
Signed the Act to allow Women to practice
before the Supreme Court
November 17, 1880
Negotiated 2 treaties with China - Trade and
Immigration
“Conscience is the
authentic voice of God
to you"
References:
List of President - https://www.historynet.com/us-presidents/
GoodRead - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes
The White House - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/
National Constitution Center - https://constitutioncenter.org/
Office of Historian - https://history.state.gov/
History - https://www.history.com/
The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Quotes:
Millard Fillmore : States of the Unions Addresses,
James Buchanan : States of the Unions Addresses,
Andrew Johnson: Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866”, p.151, Univ. of Tennessee Press
Ulysses Grant : Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”,