| A | B |
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| George Washington; 1789-1797 | first U. S. census taken |
| George Washington; 1789-1797 | first successful balloon flight in the U. S. |
| George Washington; 1789-1797 | New York Stock Exchange founded |
| John Adams; 1797-1801 | Washington, D. C. became the nation's capital |
| John Adams; 1797-1801 | population of U. S. was 5 million |
| Thomas Jefferson; 1801-1809 | Louisiana Purchase doubled the U. S. |
| Thomas Jefferson; 1801-1809 | U. S. Navy sent ships to fight the Barbary Pirates |
| Thomas Jefferson; 1801-1809 | first successful steamboat launched by Robert Fulton |
| James Madison; 1809-1817 | England and the U. S. fought the War of 1812 |
| James Madison; 1809-1817 | Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key |
| James Madison; 1809-1817 | White House burned by British |
| James Monroe; 1817-1825 | Santa Fe Trail opened |
| James Monroe; 1817-1825 | world warned that the U. S. no longer open to colonization |
| James Monroe; 1817-1825 | first machine to make paper was produced |
| John Quincy Adams; 1825-1829 | Erie Canal completed |
| John Quincy Adams; 1825-1829 | first horse-drawn, passenger railroad built in U. S. |
| Andrew Jackson; 1829-1837 | most eastern Indian tribes forced to move west of Mississippi River |
| Andrew Jackson; 1829-1837 | Texas won its independence from Mexico |
| Andrew Jackson; 1829-1837 | Davy Crockett killed in Battle of the Alamo in Texas |
| Martin Van Buren; 1837-1841 | first wagon train arrived in California |
| Martin Van Buren; 1837-1841 | established a 10-hour work day for federal employees |
| William Henry Harrison; 1841 | first president to die in office (of pneumonia) |
| William Henry Harrison; 1841 | served one month as president |
| John Tyler; 1841-1845 | Florida became a state |
| John Tyler; 1841-1845 | Samuel Morse sent the first message by telegraph |
| John Tyler; 1841-1845 | first to be unsuccessfully impeached by the House of Representatives |
