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Question 1 |
Which president implemented the Great Society and the War on Poverty?
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
John F. Kennedy | |
Richard Nixon | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Question 2 |
Which president implemented the policy of “dollar diplomacy”?
William Howard Taft | |
William McKinley | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Question 3 |
Which president was the second to have been successfully impeached by the House of Representatives?
Andrew Johnson | |
Richard Nixon | |
Bill Clinton | |
Gerald Ford |
Question 4 |
Which president repealed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in the Department of Defense?
George W. Bush | |
Barack Obama | |
Bill Clinton | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 5 |
Which president appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice, to the Supreme Court?
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Jimmy Carter | |
Ronald Reagan | |
Barack Obama |
Question 6 |
Which president led the nation throughout most of World War II?
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Question 7 |
Which president was known as the “trust-buster” for his aggressive prosecution of anti-competitive business practices?
Benjamin Harrison | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Grover Cleveland | |
William McKinley |
Question 8 |
Which president was criticized for his “court packing” scheme — an attempt to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court?
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Richard Nixon | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Question 9 |
Which president signed the Defense of Marriage Act?
George H.W. Bush | |
George W. Bush | |
Ronald Reagan | |
Bill Clinton |
Question 10 |
Which president signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913?
Woodrow Wilson | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
William McKinley | |
William Howard Taft |
Question 11 |
Which president was in office at the start of the Great Recession?
Bill Clinton | |
Barack Obama | |
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 12 |
Which president was known as the “conservation president” for his expansion of the national park system?
William Howard Taft | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
William McKinley |
Question 13 |
Which president appointed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice, to the Supreme Court?
Jimmy Carter | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Barack Obama |
Question 14 |
Which president signed the No Child Left Behind Act?
Bill Clinton | |
Barack Obama | |
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 15 |
Which president created the Peace Corps?
John F. Kennedy | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Harry S. Truman |
Question 16 |
Which president led the nation during the Iran hostage crisis?
Gerald Ford | |
Jimmy Carter | |
Richard Nixon | |
Ronald Reagan |
Question 17 |
Which president won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote peaceful solutions after leaving the White House, making him the third president to receive the award?
Jimmy Carter | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Ronald Reagan | |
Gerald Ford |
Question 18 |
Which president initiated the “New Deal” in an effort to end the Great Depression?
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Herbert Hoover |
Question 19 |
Which president advocated the adoption of the Kellogg-Briand Pact which sought to outlaw war in 1928?
Woodrow Wilson | |
Warren G. Harding | |
Calvin Coolidge | |
Herbert Hoover |
Question 20 |
Which president implemented supply-side economics during the 1980s?
George H.W. Bush | |
Gerald Ford | |
Jimmy Carter | |
Ronald Reagan |
Question 21 |
Which president approved the Bay of Pigs invasion and confronted the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Harry S. Truman | |
John F. Kennedy |
Question 22 |
Which president was the first to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game?
Warren G. Harding | |
Calvin Coolidge | |
William Howard Taft | |
Woodrow Wilson |
Question 23 |
Which president was criticized for cracking down on the “Bonus Army” in 1932 — a group of WWI veterans who sought financial aid during the Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Warren G. Harding | |
Calvin Coolidge | |
Herbert Hoover |
Question 24 |
Which president led the nation to victory during the first Gulf War in the 1990s?
George W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Ronald Reagan |
Question 25 |
Which president initiated the “Good Neighbor Policy” and pledged not to intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries?
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
John F. Kennedy | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Woodrow Wilson |
Question 26 |
Which president created the interstate highway system?
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Herbert Hoover | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Question 27 |
Which president’s administration was marred by scandals including the Teapot Dome scandal and extramarital affairs?
Warren G. Harding | |
Calvin Coolidge | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
James Garfield |
Question 28 |
Which president won the Nobel Peace prize in 2009 for his efforts to encourage nuclear non-proliferation, making him the fourth president to receive the award?
George H.W. Bush | |
Barack Obama | |
George W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton |
Question 29 |
Which president pledged to land a man on the moon within a decade?
Richard Nixon | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
John F. Kennedy | |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Question 30 |
Which president introduced the Cold War concept of the “Domino Theory?”
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Harry S. Truman | |
John F. Kennedy | |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Question 31 |
Which president ended 25 years of hostility by opening relations with Communist China?
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Richard Nixon | |
John F. Kennedy |
Question 32 |
Which president is the only leader to have served in both the White House and Supreme Court?
John Adams | |
John Quincy Adams | |
William Howard Taft | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Question 33 |
Which president initiated the War on Terror following the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton | |
Barack Obama | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 34 |
Which president ordered federal troops to enforce desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas?
John F. Kennedy | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Question 35 |
Which president guided the nation through the end of the Cold War into a “new world order”?
Ronald Reagan | |
Bill Clinton | |
George H.W. Bush | |
George W. Bush |
Question 36 |
Which president initiated the “War on Drugs”?
John F. Kennedy | |
Richard Nixon | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Jimmy Carter |
Question 37 |
Which president implemented the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in the Department of Defense?
George H.W. Bush | |
Barack Obama | |
Bill Clinton | |
George W. Bush |
Question 38 |
Which president convened the Washington Naval Conference in 1921 to limit battleship construction?
Herbert Hoover | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Calvin Coolidge | |
Warren G. Harding |
Question 39 |
Which president led the nation for almost the entire duration of the Korea War?
John F. Kennedy | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Question 40 |
Which president signed the Patient and Affordable Care Act which required all Americans to have health insurance?
Barack Obama | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton | |
George W. Bush |
Question 41 |
Which president added a “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the US could intervene in order to end unrest in another country?
William McKinley | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
William Howard Taft | |
Woodrow Wilson |
Question 42 |
Which president initiated a period of “peaceful coexistence” with the Soviet Union and negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties in the 1970s?
Jimmy Carter | |
Richard Nixon | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Gerald Ford |
Question 43 |
Which president was implicated in the Watergate scandal?
Warren G. Harding | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
Bill Clinton | |
Richard Nixon |
Question 44 |
Which president won Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I, making him the second president to receive the award?
Woodrow Wilson | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Warren G. Harding |
Question 45 |
Which president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?
William Howard Taft | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Warren G. Harding |
Question 46 |
Which president stepped up the “War on Drugs” in order to counter “crack” cocaine during the 1980s?
Jimmy Carter | |
Gerald Ford | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Ronald Reagan |
Question 47 |
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Richard Nixon | |
John F. Kennedy |
Question 48 |
Which president implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Ronald Reagan | |
Bill Clinton | |
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 49 |
Which president appointed Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Justice, to the Supreme Court?
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Bill Clinton | |
Barack Obama |
Question 50 |
Which president proposed the 14 Points at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
Woodrow Wilson | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Warren G. Harding |
Question 51 |
Which president withdrew US ground troops from the Vietnam War?
Gerald Ford | |
Richard Nixon | |
Jimmy Carter | |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Question 52 |
Which president implemented the policy of containment against the Soviet Union in the Cold War?
John F. Kennedy | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Harry S. Truman |
Question 53 |
Which president made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Harry S. Truman |
Question 54 |
Which president escalated the Vietnam War by deploying large numbers of conventional ground troops following the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
John F. Kennedy | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Harry S. Truman | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Question 55 |
Which president hosted peace talks, known as the Dayton Accords, which led to peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Bill Clinton | |
Barack Obama | |
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush |
Question 56 |
Which president was elected to the White House four times?
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Grover Cleveland |
Question 57 |
Which president ended a period of “détente” with the Soviet Union by adopting a more confrontational stance and trying to “rollback” communist influence during the 1980s?
Jimmy Carter | |
Gerald Ford | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Ronald Reagan |
Question 58 |
Which president gave the “Day of Infamy” speech?
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
George W. Bush |
Question 59 |
The energy crisis of the late 1970's occurred during which presidential administration?
Richard Nixon | |
Ronald Reagan | |
Jimmy Carter | |
Gerald Ford |
Question 60 |
Which president began to normalize the US-Cuban relationship after more than 50 years of hostility?
Bill Clinton | |
George W. Bush | |
George H.W. Bush | |
Barack Obama |
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