HISTORY OF THE USA In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America. After that, Europeans began to explore and colonize the American continent. In 1607, the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown, was established in what is now Virginia. Over the 17th and 18th century, more English colonies were established along the eastern coast of North America. But in 1760s tensions began between the colonies and Britain due to high taxes imposed by the British government. In 1775, the first battles took place between the American militia and the British army. The Revolutionary War has begun. In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of 13 American colonies from Great Britain as the United States of America. Led by general Washington, the USA won the War of Independence and became first modern democracy. ________________________ PRESIDENTS OF THE USA 1) George Washington (1789 – 1797) 2) John Adams (1797 – 1801) 3) Thomas Jefferson (1801 – 1809) 4) James Madison (1809 – 1817) 5) James Monroe (1817 – 1825) 6 John Quincy Adams 1825 – 1829 7 Andrew Jackson 1829 – 1837 8 Martin van Buren 1837 – 1841 9 William Henry Harrison 1841 10 John Tyler 1841 – 1845 11 James Polk 1845 – 1849 12 Zachary Taylor 1849 – 1850 13 Millard Fillmore 1850 – 1853 14 Franklin Pierce 1853 – 1857 15 James Buchanan 1857 – 1861 16 Abraham Lincoln 1861 – 1865 17 Andrew Johnson 1865 – 1869 18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869 – 1877 19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 – 1881 20 James Abram Garfield 1881 21 Chester Alan Arthur 1881 – 1885 22 Grover Cleveland 1885 – 1889 23 Benjamin Harrison 1889 – 1893 24 Grover Cleveland 1893 – 1897 25 William McKinley 1897 – 1901 26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901 – 1909 27 William Howard Taft 1909 – 1913 28 Woodrow (Thomas) Wilson 1913 – 1921 29 Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921 – 1923 30 Calvin (John) Coolidge 1923 – 1929 31 Herbert Clark Hoover 1929 – 1933 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933 – 1945 33 Harry S. Truman 1945 – 1953 34 Dwight (David) Eisenhower 1953 – 1961 35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961 – 1963 36 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963 – 1969 37 Richard Milhouse Nixon 1969 – 1974 38 Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974 – 1977 39 Jimmy Carter 1977 – 1981 40 Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981 – 1989 41 George Herbert Walker Bush 1989 – 1993 42 William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton 1993 – 2001 43 George Walker Bush 2001 – 2009 44 Barack Hussein Obama 2009 – 2017 45 Donald Trump 2017 – 2021 46) Joe Biden (since 2021)