Test VI: Presidents Test

Question 1

first presidents of the United States

Answer 1

George Washington, 1789-1797

Question 2

signed the Declaration of Independence

Answer 2

John Adams, 1797-1801

Question 3

president who purchased Louisiana

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809

Question 4

president during War of 1812

Answer 4

James Madison, 1809-1817

Question 5

author of the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 5

James Monroe, 1817-1825

Question 6

president during completion of the Erie Canal

Answer 6

John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829

Question 7

resided during Nullification Act and the Alamo

Answer 7

Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837

Question 8

president during Panic of 1837

Answer 8

Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841

Question 9

general known as “Old Tippecanoe”

Answer 9

William H. Harrison, 1841

Question 10

president when Texas was added to the Union

Answer 10

John Tyler, 1841-1845

Question 11

president during the Mexican War

Answer 11

James Knox Polk, 1845-1849

Question 12

general who captured Mexico City

Answer 12

Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850

Question 13

president during Compromise of 1850

Answer 13

Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853

Question 14

completed Gadsden Purchase

Answer 14

Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857

Question 15

president during Dred Scott court case

Answer 15

James Buchanan, 1857-1861

Question 16

president during the Civil War

Answer 16

Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

Question 17

first president to be impeached

Answer 17

Andrew Jackson, 1865-1869

Question 18

general-in-chief during the Civil War

Answer 18

Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877

Question 19

pulled Union troops out of South

Answer 19

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881

Question 20

shot by disgruntled office seekers

Answer 20

James. A Garfield, 1881

Question 21

President when “Spoils System” ended

Answer 21

Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885

Question 22

resided during dedication of the Statue of Liberty

Answer 22

Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889

Question 23

grandson of “Old Tippecanoe”

Answer 23

Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

Question 24

only president to serve two non-consecutive terms

Answer 24

Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897

Question 25

president during the Spanish-American War

Answer 25

William McKinley, 1897-1901

Question 26

his policies were known as “the Square Deal”

Answer 26

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909

Question 27

supported the start of income tax

Answer 27

William H. Taft, 1909-1913

Question 28

president during WWI

Answer 28

Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921

Question 29

considered one of the weakest presidents of the U.S.

Answer 29

Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923

Question 30

quiet man; referred to as “Silent Cal”

Answer 30

Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929

Question 31

president during Stock Market Crash

Answer 31

Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

Question 32

proposed the “New Deal” and resided during WWII

Answer 32

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945

Question 33

president during the beginning of the Cold War

Answer 33

Harry S. Truman

Question 34

general who orchestrated D-Day during WWII

Answer 34

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961

Question 35

president during building of the Berlin Wall

Answer 35

John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963

Question 36

president during Vietnam War

Answer 36

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969

Question 37

involved in the Watergate Scandal

Answer 37

Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974

Question 38

only man to become president without being elected

Answer 38

Gerald R. Ford, 1974-1977

Question 39

president who negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt

Answer 39

James “Jimmy” Carter, 1977-1981

Question 40

received the most electoral votes of any president

Answer 40

Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989

Question 41

president during fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 41

George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993

Question 42

second president to be impeached

Answer 42

Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

Question 43

president during the attacks on the Twin Towers

Answer 43

George W. Bush, 2001-2009

Question 44

first African-American president

Answer 44

Barack Obama, 2009-2017