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US Presidents 1-20
Term | Definition |
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George Washington | 1st President |
John Adams | 2nd President; a Federalist |
Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President; author of The Declaration of Independence |
James Madison | 4th President |
James Monroe | 5th President; Missouri Compromise |
John Quincy Adams | 6th President; beginning of railroad construction |
Andrew Jackson | 7th President; battle at Alamo occurred during his term |
Martin Van Buren | 8th President; rise of the popular press |
William Henry Harrison | 9th President; a Whig |
John Tyler | 10th President |
James K. Polk | 11th President; Texas enters Union, first Post Office stamp issued |
Zachary Taylor | 12th President |
Millard Fillmore | 13th President; California enters the Union / Fugitive Slave Act |
Franklin Pierce | 14th President |
James Buchanan | 15th President; Dred Scott |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th President; CIVIL WAR |
Andrew Johnson | 17th President; 13th and 14th amendments |
Ulysses S. Grant | 18th President; 15th amendement / Jim Crow laws |
Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th President; |
James A. Garfield | 20th President; |