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Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; 1st President of the United States
George Washington
Lawyer during the Boston Massacre Trial; helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris; 2nd President of the United States
John Adams
Author of the Declaration of Independence; Secretary of State to President Washington; leader of the Democratic-Republican Party; 3rd President of the United States;
Thomas Jefferson
Involved with the Federalists during the Constitutional Convention; member of the Democratic-Republican Party; 4th President of the United States
James Madison
5th President of the United States; responsible for creating foreign policy prohibiting further European colonization in the Americas
James Monroe
6th President of the United States; involved in the "corrupt bargain" of the election of 1824
John Quincy Adams
Popular due to being a general during the War of 1812 and relating to the "common man" in the United States; 7th President of the United States; responsible for using force against South Carolina and removing Cherokee from their land
Andrew Jackson
11th President of the United States; member of the Democratic Party; responsible for acquiring the Oregon Territory and defeating Mexico in the U.S. Mexican War
James K. Polk
16th President of the United States; president during the Civil War; member of the Republican Party; responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
17th President of the United States; Southern Democrat; took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; opposed Radical Reconstruction plans; first president to be impeached due to violating the Tenure of Office Act in 1868
Andrew Johnson
General-in-Chief of the Union Army during the Civil War; 18th President of the United States; member of the Republican Party; imposed the Ku Klux Act on areas where citizens' rights were being violated
Ulysses S. Grant
19th President of the United States; member of the Republican Party; ended Reconstruction due to the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Confederate sympathizer and white supremacist who assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Senator from Kentucky; "the Great Compromiser" responsible for the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850; former Speaker of the House who assisted in electing John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
