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Question 1 |
Before becoming president, which statesman drafted the Bill of Rights?
James Madison | |
John Adams | |
George Washington | |
Thomas Jefferson |
Question 2 |
Which president’s administration was marred by a number of scandals, including the Gold Ring, the Whiskey Ring, and the Sanborn contract?
Andrew Johnson | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
Warren G. Harding | |
Andrew Jackson |
Question 3 |
Which president was in office for the shortest amount of time?
James A. Garfield | |
Andrew Johnson | |
William Henry Harrison | |
William McKinley |
Question 4 |
Which president was the first to be filmed by a motion-picture camera?
William McKinley | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
William Howard Taft | |
Woodrow Wilson |
Question 5 |
During which presidential administration did the XYZ affair and the Quasi-War with France occur?
Thomas Jefferson | |
James Madison | |
John Adams | |
George Washington |
Question 6 |
Which president vetoed an effort to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
Thomas Jefferson | |
Martin Van Buren | |
James Monroe | |
Andrew Jackson |
Question 7 |
Which president negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803?
James Madison | |
John Adams | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
George Washington |
Question 8 |
Which president was the first to face an impeachment vote in the US Senate?
Andrew Johnson | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Andrew Jackson | |
Richard Nixon |
Question 9 |
Which president successfully negotiated with Britain a resolution to the Oregon boundary dispute?
Millard Filmore | |
James K. Polk | |
Zachary Taylor | |
John Tyler |
Question 10 |
Which president annexed Texas?
James K. Polk | |
Martin Van Buren | |
Andrew Jackson | |
John Tyler |
Question 11 |
Which president signed the Compromise of 1850?
Millard Filmore | |
Franklin Pierce | |
James K. Polk | |
Zachary Taylor |
Question 12 |
Which president led the nation to victory in the Mexican-American War?
Millard Filmore | |
James K. Polk | |
John Tyler | |
Zachary Taylor |
Question 13 |
Which president was the second to be assassinated while in office?
James A. Garfield | |
William Henry Harrison | |
William McKinley | |
Abraham Lincoln |
Question 14 |
Which president was the only one who was officially a member of the Federalist Party?
Thomas Jefferson | |
John Adams | |
James Madison | |
George Washington |
Question 15 |
Which president resolved the “nullification crisis” of 1828–1832?
Martin Van Buren | |
Andrew Jackson | |
James Monroe | |
John Quincy Adams |
Question 16 |
Which president instituted civil service reform that awarded federal jobs based on merit instead of political connections in 1883?
Chester A. Arthur | |
Andrew Jackson | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Question 17 |
Which president used federal troops to suppress the Pullman Strike of 1894?
William McKinley | |
Grover Cleveland | |
Rutherford B. Hayes | |
William Howard Taft |
Question 18 |
Which president successfully suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion?
Andrew Jackson | |
James Madison | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
George Washington |
Question 19 |
Which president was accused of agreeing to a “corrupt bargain” that prevented Andrew Jackson from securing the White House in 1824?
John Quincy Adams | |
James Monroe | |
Martin Van Buren | |
James Madison |
Question 20 |
Aaron Burr launched his conspiracy during which presidential administration?
John Adams | |
George Washington | |
James Madison | |
Thomas Jefferson |
Question 21 |
Which president repealed most of the Alien & Sedition Acts?
James Monroe | |
James Madison | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
John Quincy Adams |
Question 22 |
Which president was the first to be attacked by an assassin while in office?
Andrew Jackson | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
William Henry Harrison | |
George Washington |
Question 23 |
Which president led the nation during the War of 1812?
Thomas Jefferson | |
John Adams | |
James Monroe | |
James Madison |
Question 24 |
Which president was the first to have his voice recorded and also ordered the installation of electric lights in the White House?
William McKinley | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
William Howard Taft | |
Benjamin Harrison |
Question 25 |
Which president successfully negotiated a treaty to acquire Alaska from Russia in 1867?
Andrew Johnson | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Question 26 |
Which president improperly used his influence to sway the 1857 Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Millard Filmore | |
Franklin Pierce | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
James Buchanan |
Question 27 |
Which president implemented an Indian removal policy that led to the Trail of Tears?
Andrew Jackson | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
William Henry Harrison | |
Thomas Jefferson |
Question 28 |
Which president signed the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railways Act of 1862?
Abraham Lincoln | |
Andrew Johnson | |
James Buchanan | |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Question 29 |
The First Barbary War occurred during which presidential administration?
Thomas Jefferson | |
John Adams | |
James Madison | |
George Washington |
Question 30 |
Which president first established a doctrine that European intervention in the western hemisphere would be regarded as a threat to American security?
James Madison | |
Theodore Roosevelt | |
James Monroe | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Question 31 |
Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
George Washington | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
Andrew Johnson |
Question 32 |
Which president negotiated the Gadsden Purchase in 1854?
James K. Polk | |
Zachary Taylor | |
Franklin Pierce | |
Millard Fillmore |
Question 33 |
Which president signed the Dawes Act, which allotted land to individual Indians and encouraged cultural assimilation in 1887?
Grover Cleveland | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
Andrew Jackson | |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Question 34 |
Which president led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898?
William Howard Taft | |
William McKinley | |
Grover Cleveland | |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Question 35 |
The election of which president led to the end of Reconstruction in the South in 1877?
Ulysses S. Grant | |
Andrew Johnson | |
Rutherford B. Hayes | |
James A. Garfield |
Question 36 |
Which president introduced Thanksgiving as a national holiday?
Thomas Jefferson | |
George Washington | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Abraham Lincoln |
Question 37 |
The Second Barbary War occurred during which presidential administration?
James Buchanan | |
James Madison | |
John Adams | |
James Monroe |
Question 38 |
Which president signed a bill banning the importation of slaves to the United States?
Thomas Jefferson | |
Abraham Lincoln | |
John Quincy Adams | |
George Washington |
Question 39 |
Which president signed the Alien & Sedition Acts?
Thomas Jefferson | |
George Washington | |
James Madison | |
John Adams |
Question 40 |
Which president was commander in chief during the Northwest Indian War?
James Madison | |
Ulysses S. Grant | |
George Washington | |
Andrew Jackson |
Question 41 |
Which president ordered Commodore Perry to open relations with Japan?
James K. Polk | |
Frankl Pierce | |
Millard Filmore | |
James Buchanan |
Question 42 |
Which president annexed Hawaii in 1898?
Theodore Roosevelt | |
Benjamin Harrison | |
William McKinley | |
Grover Cleveland |
Question 43 |
Which president was the first to take office by ascending from the vice-presidential office through constitutional succession?
John Tyler | |
William Henry Harrison | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
Andrew Johnson |
Question 44 |
Which president signed the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
James Madison | |
John Quincy Adams | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
James Monroe |
Question 45 |
Which president created the First Bank of the United States?
John Adams | |
George Washington | |
Andrew Jackson | |
Thomas Jefferson |
Question 46 |
Which president issued a warning during his farewell address against “foreign entanglements” and the “baneful effects of the Spirit of Party?”
Thomas Jefferson | |
John Adams | |
George Washington | |
James Madison |
Question 47 |
Which president used federal troops to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Chester A. Arthur | |
Rutherford B. Hayes | |
Benjamin Harrison | |
Grover Cleveland |
Question 48 |
Which president was the first to have impeachment proceedings initiated against him?
Andrew Jackson | |
John Tyler | |
Thomas Jefferson | |
Andrew Johnson |
Question 49 |
Which man was the only one who served as president in two non-consecutive terms?
Andrew Jackson | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Grover Cleveland | |
Thomas Jefferson |
Question 50 |
Which president’s administration is most closely associated with the “Era of Good Feelings?”
James Monroe | |
John Adams | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
John F. Kennedy |
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