1837-1841 MARTIN VAN BUREN.

1841-1845 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (died 1841).

JOHN TYLER.

1845-1849 JAMES K. POLK.

1849-1853

1853-1857

ZACHARY TAYLOR (died 1850).

MILLARD FILLMORE.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

1857-1861 JAMES BUCHANAN.

AREA, POPULATION, AND DATE OF ADMISSION

OF THE STATES

THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES, IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION.

(The population of Dakota and Washington has enormously increased

since 1880.)

DATES OF SOME REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE HISTORY

OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES AND UNITED
STATES.

1606 First Charter of Virginia.

Taking of New Amsterdam (New York).

Battle of Heights of Abraham and taking of Quebec.
Beginning of the Revolutionary War.

Declaration of Independence.

1664

1759

1775

1776

1781

1783

1787

1788

1789

1793

1803

Formation of the Confederation.

Independence of United States recognized.
Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia.
The Constitution ratified by Nine States.
Beginning of the Federal Government.
Invention of the Cotton Gin.

Purchase of Louisiana from France.

1812-14 War with England.

1812-15 Disappearance of the Federalist Party.

1830

1840

1844

1845

First Passenger Railway opened.

National Nominating Conventions regularly established.
First Electric Telegraph in operation.

Admission of Texas to the Union.

1846-48 Mexican War and Cession of California.

1852-56 Fall of the Whig Party.

1854-56 Formation of the Republican Party.

1869

First Trans-Continental Railway completed.

1877 Final withdrawal of Federal troops from the South. 1879 Specie Payments resumed.