# President of the United States

Welcome to a Learning Project on the Presidents of the United States

## Preface

This course examines the List of US Presidents and identifies simple mnemonics for placing the separate Presidential Terms into the context of US History. In sequence with the List, a separate Lesson is associated with each of the 44 Presidents. The length of time covered by a Lesson can range from less than a year to over twelve years, with one President listed twice (Do you know Who? & When?).
Within each Lesson, introductory information is broad brushed by association with major events and trends in both US History and World History. Additional categories of timelines with significant milestones would include technology, fashion, architecture, business, etc. The more advanced information would investigate Presidential Policy, as influenced by the life and times of the President and his family. The finest level of detail within a Lesson would investigate specific policies that significantly influenced major historical events. Information on these events would be provided by linking out to other Learning Projects that covered specific historical topics.
* See also in Wikipedia
** President of the United States
** List of Presidents
** List of Inaugurations
** List of Elections

## Lessons
### Introduction: Getting to Know the US Presidents

Let’s jump right in and get straight to the point, the purpose of this course is to learn the List of US Presidents. Let’s be equally clear that the emphasis is on learning, not memorizing. Sure, someone can certainly list from beginning to end the name and dates for every individual to have ever held the office of President of the United States, a nice parlor trick, but of what value is a list of names without the understanding of their life and times, a knowledge of the events that molded their actions, even as their decisions molded the future? Still, lists have their uses and we will be referring to many often.
A preliminary step to learning the US Presidents, is to identify a few simple mnemonics that will help provide a basic structure for the information. Then we shall examine various historical trends to place the information in context and give a recognizable presence to the individuals that have served this office.
The mnemonics are identified within short lessons that will also allow us to create our own timeline. The lessons are:
* Election Years are Leap Years
* Presidential Terms are Four Years
* Vice Presidential Succession
* Selective Memory

### Unit 1: The Founders

| 1st President | 2nd President | 3rd President | 4th President | 5th President |
| George Washington 1789 - 1797 | John Adams 1797 - 1801 | Thomas Jefferson 1801 - 1809 | James Madison 1809 - 1817 | James Monroe 1817 - 1825 |

### Unit 2: Change and Uncertainty

| 6th President | 7th President | 8th President | 9th President | 10th President |
| John Quincy Adams 1825 - 1829 | Andrew Jackson 1829 - 1837 | Martin Van Buren 1837 - 1841 | William Henry Harrison 1841 | John Tyler 1841 - 1845 |

### Unit 3: Trouble in Dixie

| 11th President | 12th President | 13th President | 14th President | 15th President |
| James Polk 1845 - 1849 | Zachary Taylor 1849 - 1850 | Millard Fillmore 1850 - 1853 | Franklin Pierce 1853 - 1857 | James Buchanan 1857 - 1861 |

### Unit 4: Frontlines to Frontiers

| 16th President | 17th President | 18th President | 19th President | 20th President | 21st President | 22nd President |
| Abraham Lincoln 1861 - 1865 | Andrew Johnson 1865 - 1869 | Ulysses S. Grant 1869 - 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 - 1881 | James Garfield 1881 | Chester Arthur 1881 - 1885 | Grover Cleveland 1885 - 1889 |

### Unit 5: Foreign Policy and Modern War

| 23rd President | 24th President | 25th President | 26th President | 27th President |
| Benjamin Harrison 1889 - 1893 | Grover Cleveland (2) 1893 - 1897 | William McKinley 1897 - 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt 1901 - 1909 | William H. Taft 1909 - 1913 |
| 28th President | 29th President | 30th President | 31st President | 32nd President | 33rd President |
| Woodrow Wilson 1913 - 1921 | Warren G. Harding 1921 - 1923 | Calvin Coolidge 1923 - 1929 | Herbert Hoover 1929 - 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 - 1945 | Harry S. Truman 1945 - 1953 |

### Unit 6: A New World Power

| 34th President | 35th President | 36th President | 37th President | 38th President |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 - 1961 | John F. Kennedy 1961 - 1963 | Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - 1969 | Richard Nixon 1969 - 1974 | Gerald Ford 1974 - 1977 |
| 39th President | 40th President | 41st President |
| Jimmy Carter 1977 - 1981 | Ronald Reagan 1981 - 1989 | George H. W. Bush 1989 - 1993 |

### Unit 7: The Twenty-First Century

| 42nd President | 43rd President | 44th President | 45th President | 46th President |
| Bill Clinton 1993 – 2001 | George W. Bush 2001 – 2009 | Barack Obama 2009 – 2017 | Donald Trump 2017 – 2021 | Joe Biden 2021 – |

## Course Administration

* Syllabus
* Worksheets
* Assignments
** Assignment 1. TBD
* Tests and Quizzes
** Unit Quiz 1
** Unit Quiz 2
** Cumulative Test
** Unit Quiz 3
** Unit Quiz 4
** Cumulative Test
** Unit Quiz 5
** Unit Quiz 6
** Final Exam
* Sources
The American President By:Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Presidents every question answered by Carter Smith
* Questions
Contact: [NAMLAX@hotmail.com]
* Active participants
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