Advanced Placement United States History
Summer Reading Assignment
Contact Coach Godbee (jgodbee@landmark-cs.org) with questions regarding this assignment:
Summer Assignment Directions:
The US Presidents
Students will study the outcomes of the 57 presidential elections from 1788 to 2012 based on the
information in the chart provided (“US Presidents and their Political Parties”). Students will review
the organizational chart and pay careful attention to the winner of each presidential election and
their political party affiliation. Students will take a test over this material by completing a blank
version of the chart
There are key things to consider when examining the chart:
 Notice the various “eras” in American political history
 From 1789 to 2012 there have been 57 presidential elections and 44 US presidents
 Winners of 1840, 1848, 1864, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1944, 1960 elections all died in office
and were replaced by their Vice Presidents.
 Winners of 1788, 1800, 1808, 1816, 1828, 1860, 1868, 1884, 1896, 1912, 1932, 1952,
1980, 1992, 2000, and 2008 elections were elected to at least two terms as president.
Era of the
“Common Man”
Era of Good
Feelings
Young Republic
U.S. Presidents & their Political Parties
ELECTION
PRESIDENT
PARTY
1789
1792
1796
1800
1804
1808
1812
1816
1820
1824
1828
1832
1836
1840
GEORGE WASHINGTON (1ST)
NO PARTY AFFILIATION
GEORGE WASHINGTON (1ST)
NO PARTY AFFILIATION
JOHN ADAMS (2ND)
FEDERALIST
THOMAS JEFFERSON (3RD)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
THOMAS JEFFERSON (3RD)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
JAMES MADISON (4TH)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
JAMES MADISON (4TH)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
JAMES MONROE (5TH)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
JAMES MONROE (5TH)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (6TH)
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
ANDREW JACKSON (7TH)
DEMOCRAT
ANDREW JACKSON (7TH)
DEMOCRAT
MARTIN VAN BUREN (8TH)
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (9TH)/
JOHN TYLER (10TH)
DEMOCRAT
WHIG/
WHIG
Ante-Bellum
Period
Civil War &
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
1844
1848
1852
1856
1860
1864
1868
1872
1876
1880
1884
1888
1892
1896
JAMES POLK (11TH)
ZACHARY TAYLOR (12TH)/
MILLARD FILLMORE (13TH)
FRANKLIN PIERCE (14TH)
DEMOCRAT
WHIG/
WHIG
DEMOCRAT
JAMES BUCHANAN (15TH)
DEMOCRAT
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (16TH)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (16TH)/
ANDREW JOHNSON (17TH)
ULYSSES GRANT (18TH)
REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN/
ULYSSES GRANT (18TH)
REPUBLICAN
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (19TH)
JAMES GARFIELD (20TH)/
CHESTER ARTHUR (21ST)
GROVER CLEVELAND (22ND)
REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN/
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT
BENJAMIN HARRISON (23RD)
REPUBLICAN
GROVER CLEVELAND (24TH)
DEMOCRAT
WILLIAM MCKINLEY (25TH)
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT
REPUBLICAN
Progressives
Roaring
Twenties
New Deal &
Era of Reform
Cold War
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
WILLIAM MCKINLEY (25TH)/
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (26TH)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (26TH)
REPUBLICAN/
REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (27TH)
REPUBLICAN
WOODROW WILSON (28TH)
DEMOCRAT
WOODROW WILSON (28TH)
DEMOCRAT
WARREN HARDING (29TH)/
CALVIN COOLIDGE (30TH)
CALVIN COOLIDGE (30TH)
REPUBLICAN/
REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN
HERBERT HOOVER (31ST)
REPUBLICAN
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (32ND)
DEMOCRAT
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (32ND)
DEMOCRAT
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (32ND)
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (32ND)/
HARRY TRUMAN (33RD)
HARRY TRUMAN (33RD)
DEMOCRAT
DEMOCRAT/
DEMOCRAT
DEMOCRAT
DWIGHT EISENHOWER (34TH)
REPUBLICAN
DWIGHT EISENHOWER (34TH)
JOHN F. KENNEDY (35TH)/
LYNDON JOHNSON (36TH)
LYNDON JOHNSON (36TH)
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT/
DEMOCRAT
DEMOCRAT
Détente & Rapprochement
21st Century
America
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
RICHARD NIXON (37TH)
RICHARD NIXON (37TH)/
GERALD FORD (38TH)
JIMMY CARTER (39TH)
REPUBLICAN
REPUBLICAN/
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT
RONALD REAGAN (40TH)
REPUBLICAN
RONALD REAGAN (40TH)
REPUBLICAN
GEORGE H.W. BUSH (41ST)
REPUBLICAN
WILLIAM CLINTON (42ND)
DEMOCRAT
WILLIAM CLINTON (42ND)
DEMOCRAT
GEORGE W BUSH (43RD)
REPUBLICAN
GEORGE W BUSH (43RD)
REPUBLICAN
BARACK OBAMA (44TH)
DEMOCRAT
BARACK OBAMA (44TH)
DEMOCRAT