USA history

Question 1

During this man’s presidency, twenty-four stockbrokers met under a tree in Manhattan to sign the Buttonwood Agreement.

Answer 1

George Washington

Question 2

After leaving North Carolina, the preacher Herman Husband fomented anger against a tax passed by this president.

Answer 2

George Washington

Question 3

A two-year long economic panic during this man’s presidency was caused by a land speculation bubble driven by Robert Morris.

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

During this man’s presidency, a “dinner-table bargain” led to the passage of the Funding Act, which allowed the federal government to assume state debts.

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

Early in his career, this man served as an emissary to a Mingo chieftain known as the “Half King.”

Answer 5

George Washington

Question 6

That chieftain, Tanacharison, helped this man win the Battle of Jumonville Glen.

Answer 6

George Washington

Question 7

An expedition led by John Forbes culminated in this man’s forces’ capture of Fort Duquesne.

Answer 7

George Washington

Question 8

This man led a heroic retreat at the Battle of Monongahela during the Braddock Expedition.

Answer 8

George Washington

Question 9

This man gifted a bottle of rum to the Seneca Queen Alliquippa in thanks for the aid of her son, Kanuksusy.

Answer 9

George Washington

Question 10

This man presided at Edward Braddock’s funeral after the Battle of Monongahela.

Answer 10

George Washington

Question 11

He and James Mackay surrendered Fort Necessity to a French force

Answer 11

George Washington

Question 12

This man was aided by the Mingo chief Tanacharison at the Battle of Jumonville Glen and exclaimed “It’s a fine fox chase my boys!” during the Battle of Princeton.

Answer 12

George Washington

Question 13

This man declared that he had grown “almost blind in the service of my country” in a speech that ended the Newburgh Conspiracy, and he was the target of the conway Cabal.

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

This general screamed at second-in-command Charles Lee during an oppressively hot battle which gave his horse heatstroke.

Answer 14

George Washington

Question 15

This man miraculously evacuated 9000 troops across Brooklyn Ferry without a single loss of life.

Answer 15

George Washington

Question 16

This man ordered Ezra Lee to attempt a submarine explosive attack on the HMS Eagle

Answer 16

George Washington

Question 17

This man responded to praise from Moses Seixas in his “Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport.”

Answer 17

George Washington

Question 18

This man said that “overgrown military establishments” are hostile to liberty in a speech explaining that North and South, and East and West, were in “unrestrained intercourse.”

Answer 18

George Washington

Question 19

At one battle, this man constructed redoubts overlooking Brenton’s Ford but came under artillery fire from Wilhelm von Knyphausen.

Answer 19

George Washington

Question 20

At another battle, Adam Stephen’s drunkenness caused this man’s forces to fire upon each other accidentally.

Answer 20

George Washington

Question 21

This general lost one battle when his subordinate, Adam Stephen, was intoxicated during it.

Answer 21

George Washington

Question 22

In one speech, this man stated “Let me conjure you … to express our utmost horror and detestation of the man who … attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.”

Answer 22

George Washington

Question 23

During this man’s presidency, the Revenue Cutter Service was formed.

Answer 23

George Washington

Question 24

One controversy during his term involved the arming of the Little Sarah.

Answer 24

George Washington

Question 25

The constitutionality of one policy advanced by this leader was debated by the Pacificus and Helvidius letters; that policy was prompted by the Citizen Genet affair.

Answer 25

George Washington

Question 26

During his tenure, the territory of the United States was expanded in the Treaty of Greenville.

Answer 26

George Washington

Question 27

Douglas Freeman wrote a seven-volume biography of this man, who was also the subject of Henry Wiencek’s An Imperfect God.

Answer 27

George Washington

Question 28

This president’s political opponents attacked him for handing over Hermione mutineer Thomas Nash to be hanged by the British in Jamaica.

Answer 28

John Adams

Question 29

Publisher Matthew Lyon won reelection from jail after attacking the “selfish avarice” of this president.

Answer 29

John Adams

Question 30

New taxes imposed by this man’s administration prompted an auctioneer to rally Pennsylvania Dutch farmers in Fries’s Rebellion.

Answer 30

John Adams

Question 31

A bill signed into law by this president increased from five years to fourteen years the minimum time needed for naturalization

Answer 31

John Adams

Question 32

This man faced a rebellion caused in part by the passage of the House Tax Law, in which around 100 people rode to Quakerstown and captured federal tax assessors.

Answer 32

John Adams

Question 33

This man said “facts are stubborn things” during his defense of John Preston for his role in the Boston Massacre.

Answer 33

John Adams

Question 34

This leader defended the Articles of Confederation in a 1787 Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States.

Answer 34

John Adams

Question 35

This leader asked Benjamin Rush if his election was a “curse or blessing” after Alexander Hamilton convinced several electors to not vote for him.

Answer 35

John Adams

Question 36

Later, Hamilton also attempted to convince electors to choose Charles Pinckney over this president

Answer 36

John Adams

Question 37

The Treaty of Mortefontaine was signed under this man’s government, and he levied the Direct Tax to finance six naval frigates, which spurred Fries’ Rebellion.

Answer 37

John Adams

Question 38

After this man annulled a Model Treaty that he earlier created, the Quasi War ensued.

Answer 38

John Adams

Question 39

This man warned against the creation of an episcopate in America in his Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.

Answer 39

John Adams

Question 40

In response to a request for advice from North Carolina, he wrote a pamphlet praising mixed constitutions, called Thoughts on Government.

Answer 40

John Adams

Question 41

He received a letter asking him to “willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.”

Answer 41

John Adams

Question 42

This Unitarian seconded a motion by Richard Henry Lee at the Second Continental Congress to force the first vote on declaring independence.

Answer 42

John Adams

Question 43

During his tenure as ambassador to the Dutch Republic, this man was able to obtain a loan for 5 million guilder, and on another occasion he participated in the capture of the Martha.

Answer 43

John Adams

Question 44

This man wrote that “the foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people” in a letter to George Wythe.

Answer 44

John Adams

Question 44

As part of his efforts to expand the navy, he commissioned the USS Constitution

Answer 44

John Adams

Question 45

This president ratified a tax passed by Congress that levied a direct tax on houses, lands, and slaves, but one veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion got angry and led an uprising.

Answer 45

John Adams

Question 46

In “My Head, My Heart,” this person wrote about meeting Maria Cosway.

Answer 46

Thomas Jefferson

Question 47

The first US battle on foreign soil, the Battle of Derna, occurred under this president during the Barbary War.

Answer 47

Thomas Jefferson

Question 48

This president sent James Monroe to negotiate a treaty with the French ambassador Nemours.

Answer 48

Thomas Jefferson

Question 49

During this man’s Presidency, the captured USS Philadelphia was set on fire by Stephen Decatur.

Answer 49

Thomas Jefferson

Question 50

A political cartoon depicts an act signed by this President as a turtle who bites a man shouting at the “cursed Ograbme;”

Answer 50

Thomas Jefferson

Question 51

This man composed The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by cutting and pasting the non-supernatural parts of the New Testament.

Answer 51

Thomas Jefferson

Question 52

This man rejected the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty in the events leading up to the Chesapeake-Leopard affair.

Answer 52

Thomas Jefferson

Question 53

This president’s conflict with the Karamanli dynasty was ended by the Treaty of Tripoli.

Answer 53

Thomas Jefferson

Question 54

This man wrote that Senators should be 30 years old and a citizen for 9 years in his A Manual of Parliamentary Practice.

Answer 54

Thomas Jefferson

Question 55

This author of A Summary View of the Rights of British America was tutored by George Wythe in law.

Answer 55

Thomas Jefferson

Question 56

This man wrote a dialogue between his “head” and his “heart” in a letter to Maria Cosway.

Answer 56

Thomas Jefferson

Question 57

This man appointed Albert Gallatin as his Secretary of the Treasury, and while in office, this man signed into law a bill that officially banned the importation of slaves.

Answer 57

Thomas Jefferson

Question 58

During his administration, Zebulon Pike was dispatched to explore the source of the Red River, and this man authorized the creation of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Answer 58

Thomas Jefferson

Question 59

This man outlined a “majority of the whole” in a work arguing for a larger republic.

Answer 59

James Madison

Question 60

This man wrote, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition” in an essay that claims, “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

Answer 60

James Madison

Question 61

An essay by this man repeatedly invokes “factions.”

Answer 61

James Madison

Question 62

This politician and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Answer 62

James Madison

Question 63

As Secretary of State, this politician withheld the signed commissions of several last-minute appointees called the “Midnight Judges.”

Answer 63

James Madison

Question 64

As his last act in one office, this man vetoed the Bonus Bill.

Answer 64

James Madison

Question 65

This Princeton grad and owner of Paul Jennings helped write the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and staunchly opposed Macon’s Bill Number 2.

Answer 65

James Madison

Question 66

In an earlier essay, this man compared getting rid of liberty to getting rid of air, when cautioning about efforts to abolish factions.

Answer 66

James Madison

Question 67

This man argued that the “mischiefs” of a problem could be solved by either “removing its causes” or “controlling its effects.”

Answer 67

James Madison

Question 68

One of this man’s propositions was altered by John Rutledge in the Committee of Detail.

Answer 68

James Madison

Question 69

Senator William Giles opposed this man’s appointment of Albert Gallatin as Secretary of State.

Answer 69

James Madison

Question 70

This man kept James Wilkinson as the governor of the Louisiana Territory despite his incompetence.

Answer 70

James Madison

Question 71

This man argued for a “Necessary and Proper Clause” and defended the Supremacy Clause in Federalist Paper #44.

Answer 71

James Madison

Question 72

This President ordered Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw land to be protected from settlers, though his general Andrew Jackson ignored that order.

Answer 72

James Madison

Question 73

This owner of Paul Jennings was in office when his countrymen destroyed the ship Guerriere

Answer 73

James Madison

Question 74

He retained his predecessor’s active Treasury secretary Albert Gallatin, and argued in one writing that “extend[ing] the sphere” of a country’s size protects liberty from harmful “factions.”

Answer 74

James Madison

Question 75

This man appointed Gabriel Duvall to the Supreme Court as well as the man who wrote Commentaries on the Constitution, Joseph Story.

Answer 75

James Madison

Question 76

This man used the name Helvidius to clash with Pacificus when debating the Proclamation of Neutrality.

Answer 76

James Madison

Question 77

One article by this man predicted that a “proportion of fit characters” would arise and warned that property inequity would breed factionalism.

Answer 77

James Madison

Question 78

His determined opponents included the Blue Lights and the Essex Junto.

Answer 78

James Madison

Question 79

After two months in his highest office, he signed Macon’s Bill Number 2 to replace the Non-Intercourse Act.

Answer 79

James Madison

Question 80

This future president negotiated the release of Thomas Paine from French prison and traveled with Robert Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 80

James Monroe

Question 81

This president’s defeat of Rufus King led to the end of the First Party System due to the collapse of a rival party.

Answer 81

James Monroe

Question 82

During this president’s tenure, the Adams-Onís treaty acquired Florida and the Missouri Compromise was signed.

Answer 82

James Monroe

Question 83

The Roosevelt Corollary expanded a policy named for this president.

Answer 83

James Monroe

Question 84

In his book A View of the Conduct of the Executive, this man defended his actions as Minister to France.

Answer 84

James Monroe

Question 85

During this man’s presidency, overspeculation on frontier lands caused widespread foreclosures and a financial panic.

Answer 85

James Monroe

Question 86

A treaty signed during this man’s presidency set one border at the Red River.

Answer 86

James Monroe

Question 87

William Pinkney and this man failed to negotiate a renewal of Jay’s Treaty, and he helped Robert Livingston negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 87

James Monroe

Question 88

as governor of his state, he called out the militia to suppress a slave rebellion led by Gabriel Prosser.

Answer 88

James Monroe

Question 89

At the Battle of Trenton, this man severed an artery and was saved by volunteer doctor John Riker.

Answer 89

James Monroe

Question 90

Earlier, this man dropped out of William and Mary and assisted Patriots in seizing weapon stores in Williamsburg in 1775.

Answer 90

James Monroe

Question 91

This man was effectively both Secretary of State and Secretary of War after John Armstrong was fired after the burning of Washington.

Answer 91

James Monroe

Question 92

This president’s only Supreme Court nominee was former Secretary of the Navy Smith Thompson.

Answer 92

James Monroe

Question 93

In 1796, this man was recalled from his post as Ambassador to France because he hadn’t defended Jay’s Treaty vigorously enough for Washington’s Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering.

Answer 93

James Monroe

Question 94

Nominated for the presidency in 1808 by a faction of the Tertium Quids of the Democratic-Republican party, this man only garnered votes in Virginia, which he had governed from 1799-1802.

Answer 94

James Monroe

Question 95

This man served in the Continental Congress after studying law under Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 95

James Monroe

Question 96

This man proposed a plan for the “general arrangement of the militia” which would have instituted military service for all males and created three corps divided by age.

Answer 96

Henry Knox

Question 97

During the Revolutionary War, he directed the transfer of the arsenal captured at Fort Ticonderoga to Washington’s camp.

Answer 97

Henry Knox

Question 98

In 1785, he succeeded Benjamin Lincoln in a position which put him in charge of Indian affairs

Answer 98

Henry Knox

Question 99

this politician from Maine who was the first Secretary of War.

Answer 99

Henry Knox

Question 100

This man wrote a series of Letters on Silesia to his brother Thomas Boylston.

Answer 100

John Quincy Adams

Question 101

This man was the only senator from his party to vote for the Louisiana Purchase, earning him a Profile in Courage.

Answer 101

John Quincy Adams

Question 102

With Roger Sherman Baldwin, this man argued for a group of Mende tribesmen led by Joseph Cinqué in the case U.S. v. The Amistad.

Answer 102

John Quincy Adams

Question 103

In the final years of his life, this ex-president was the primary driving force behind the formation of the Smithsonian Institute and spoke against the Mexican-American War.

Answer 103

John Quincy Adams

Question 104

This president enacted the first of two laws that the South Carolina legislature declared unconstitutional, sparking his successor’s nullification crisis.

Answer 104

John Quincy Adams

Question 105

This president chose Richard Rush as his running mate during his campaign for re-election.

Answer 105

John Quincy Adams

Question 106

This president died while giving a speech in Congress opposing a proposal to honor Mexican-American veterans.

Answer 106

John Quincy Adams

Question 107

This politician’s son George Washington drowned in the Long Island Sound after possibly jumping off the Benjamin Franklin.

Answer 107

John Quincy Adams

Question 108

Due to his constant petitions against slavery, this man was the chief target of an 1836 gag rule which was eventually repealed in 1844.

Answer 108

John Quincy Adams

Question 109

During one election, this man’s opponent accused him of providing prostitutes to the Czar while he served as Ambassador to Russia.

Answer 109

John Quincy Adams

Question 110

This man is the only former president to become a member of the House of Representatives.

Answer 110

John Quincy Adams

Question 111

This man’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory explains that liberty is necessary for the art of oration to survive.

Answer 111

John Quincy Adams

Question 112

This President started the Chesapeake and Ohio Canals among others, and he also extended the Cumberland Road.

Answer 112

John Quincy Adams

Question 113

This politician died shortly after giving a speech against granting swords to generals of the Mexican-American War.

Answer 113

John Quincy Adams

Question 114

This man brought a petition to the House floor from twenty Washington D.C. slaves seeking freedom, part of his campaign against the gag rule.

Answer 114

John Quincy Adams

Question 115

In exchange for an electoral vote from Louisiana, this man appointed James Brown as minister to France.

Answer 115

John Quincy Adams

Question 116

William H. Crawford refused this president’s invitation to continue in his post as Secretary of the Treasury, so this president appointed Richard Rush instead.

Answer 116

John Quincy Adams

Question 117

In 1834, this man ran for governor of his home state on the Anti Masonic ticket but lost to John Davis.

Answer 117

John Quincy Adams

Question 118

This president appointed Robert Trimble to the Supreme Court, and was ousted as incumbent in an election that saw his opponent’s wife Rachel accused of bigamy.

Answer 118

John Quincy Adams

Question 119

This man published the 11 essays in the collection “Letters of Publicola” which were critical of Paine’s Rights of Man

Answer 119

John Quincy Adams

Question 120

He was denied re-appointment to the Senate after supporting Jefferson’s economic program and becoming the only New England Federalist to vote in favor of the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 120

John Quincy Adams

Question 121

Between appointments as diplomatic representative to Russia and Britain, he led the American side at Ghent.

Answer 121

John Quincy Adams

Question 122

This general provoked outcry from the British government after capturing and executing Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister.

Answer 122

Andrew Jackson

Question 123

This general forced the cession of 23 million acres of land in a treaty signed at a fort named for him.

Answer 123

Andrew Jackson

Question 124

This general ended the Creek War by decisively defeating the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

Answer 124

Andrew Jackson

Question 125

The Scott massacre prompted an invasion led by this man, during which he executed two British citizens

Answer 125

Andrew Jackson

Question 126

He married Rachel Donelson before her divorce was final, and an assassination attempt on him failed after both of Richard Lawrence’s pistols misfired.

Answer 126

Andrew Jackson

Question 127

“Hard Times” tokens were first minted by private banks during this leader’s tenure.

Answer 127

Andrew Jackson

Question 128

This President ordered his Secretary of the Treasury, Levi Woodbury, to pass an act that forced the purchasing of public lands to be made with hard currency; that act was called the Specie Circular.

Answer 128

Andrew Jackson

Question 129

In one song, soldiers led by this man made enemies “run through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.”

Answer 129

Andrew Jackson

Question 130

At his namesake fort, this man took William Weatherford’s surrender.

Answer 130

Andrew Jackson

Question 131

The Age of this politician titles a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Arthur Schlesinger.

Answer 131

Andrew Jackson

Question 132

He’s not Thomas Jefferson, but this president invited 10,000 ordinary people into the White House to eat a giant piece of cheese.

Answer 132

Andrew Jackson

Question 133

This president’s enemies distributed the Coffin Handbills and spread rumors that his wife, Rachel, was a bigamist.

Answer 133

Andrew Jackson

Question 134

This man was permanently scarred as a child soldier for refusing to clean the boots of a British officer.

Answer 134

Andrew Jackson

Question 135

On constitutional grounds, he vetoed a bill to construct a road to Maysville, Kentucky.

Answer 135

Andrew Jackson

Question 136

A fight over the constitutionality of two tariffs led this man to have a “Force Bill” passed.

Answer 136

Andrew Jackson

Question 137

This general sided with a “white stick” faction against the “red stick” faction in a war that was ended by the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

Answer 137

Andrew Jackson

Question 138

A cartoon shows this president fighting a green hydra, fulfilling his promise to destroy an institution he said “is trying to kill me.”

Answer 138

Andrew Jackson

Question 139

This man, the only president to pay off the national debt,

Answer 139

Andrew Jackson

Question 140

In spite of John Ross’ opposition, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot accepted this leader’s policies in the Treaty of New Echota.

Answer 140

Andrew Jackson

Question 141

John Quincy Adams protected this man from censure after he ordered an invasion without authorization

Answer 141

Andrew Jackson

Question 142

This man earned the nickname “King Mob” after he opened a government building to the general public.

Answer 142

Andrew Jackson

Question 143

This president’s first term of office began the Second Party System, which saw the growth of party loyalty.

Answer 143

Andrew Jackson

Question 144

This president’s predecessor passed the highest tariff in US history, the Tariff of Abominations, which resulted in this president’s vice president arguing for the right of states to nullify federal laws.

Answer 144

Andrew Jackson

Question 145

This man provided ships for another man to start a colony on the Red River and later testified on behalf of that man, Aaron Burr.

Answer 145

Andrew Jackson

Question 146

This man led the Bucktails, a group of Senators who opposed George Clinton.

Answer 146

Martin Van Buren

Question 147

This man’s vice president claimed that he killed Tecumseh and was Richard Mentor Johnson.

Answer 147

Martin Van Buren

Question 148

This man ran for president in 1848 as the Free Soil candidate.

Answer 148

Martin Van Buren

Question 149

This man argued for abolitionism in the “Barnburner Manifesto.”

Answer 149

Martin Van Buren

Question 150

This man’s daughter-in-law was the youngest ever White House hostess.

Answer 150

Martin Van Buren

Question 151

This man’s “regal splendor” was attacked in Charles Ogle’s Gold Spoon Oration.

Answer 151

Martin Van Buren

Question 152

Supporters of this politician formed the OK club using the abbreviation of one of his nicknames.

Answer 152

Martin Van Buren

Question 153

This man’s Vice-President, Richard Mentor

Answer 153

Martin Van Buren

Question 154

This man founded the Albany Regency, which was an early political machine in the state of New York, and he was the only President whose first language was not English.

Answer 154

Martin Van Buren

Question 155

James K. Polk offered this man the ambassadorship to London after unexpectedly defeating him for the Democratic nomination.

Answer 155

Martin Van Buren

Question 156

This man’s presidency witnessed a conflict known as the Battle of Caribou on the Maine-New Brunswick border.

Answer 156

Martin Van Buren

Question 157

One opponent of this man accused him of building hills in the shape of “an Amazon’s bosom.”

Answer 157

Martin Van Buren

Question 158

He suffered a public relations blow when Kentucky Congressman Landaff Andrews offered to take a dining implement home.

Answer 158

Martin Van Buren

Question 159

During this man’s presidency, Allan McNab and Alexander McLeod destroyed the Caroline.

Answer 159

Martin Van Buren

Question 160

Due to this man’s economic policies, his entire party was dubbed the “Locofocos”.

Answer 160

Martin Van Buren

Question 161

This president was elected over his eventual successor and Hugh L. White, two candidates put forth by the same party in different parts of the country.

Answer 161

Martin Van Buren

Question 162

This man’s support for William H. Crawford’s candidacy drew him his first electoral vote, from Georgia for the vice presidency.

Answer 162

Martin Van Buren

Question 163

E.C. Booz’s distinctive whiskey bottles in support of this candidate are the source for the term “booze.”

Answer 163

William henry harrison

Question 164

Supporters of this candidate pushing leather and tin spheres to campaign stops originated the phrase “keep the ball rolling.”

Answer 164

William henry harrison

Question 165

This man sent Caleb Cushing to negotiate the Treaty of Wanghia.

Answer 165

John Tyler

Question 166

wo members of this man’s cabinet were killed, while he escaped injury, when the Peacemaker gun exploded aboard the USS Princeton.

Answer 166

John Tyler

Question 167

This man served as Vice President under a man known as the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” candidate.

Answer 167

John Tyler

Question 168

The Thornton Affair started a conflict during this man’s presidency.

Answer 168

James Polk

Question 169

In a previous position, this man enforced the “gag rule” on petitions regarding slavery.

Answer 169

James Polk

Question 170

This president reestablished the Independent Treasury System and lowered import duties via the Walker Tariff.

Answer 170

James Polk

Question 170

This man is the only president to fulfill all of his campaign agenda.

Answer 170

James Polk

Question 171

This president’s Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft, was responsible for founding the Naval Academy.

Answer 171

James Polk

Question 171

The Spot Resolutions demanded that this president identify the exact location where blood was spilled in American soil.

Answer 171

James Polk

Question 172

During the negotiation of a peace treaty, Nicholas Trist ignored this president’s attempt to recall him.

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James Polk

Question 172

This president defeated Henry Clay using the slogan “Fifty-four forty or fight!”

Answer 172

James Polk

Question 173

This man’s political opponents published a fake travelogue titled Roorback’s Tour through the Southern and Western States that claimed he branded his initials on the 40 slaves he owned.

Answer 173

James Polk

Question 173

As President, he created the Department of the Interior

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James Polk

Question 174

His political opponents asked “Who is [this man]” after he outmaneuvered Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren to gain the nomination at the 1844 Democratic Convention.

Answer 174

James Polk

Question 174

This man passed a law instituting the practice of storing imported goods in warehouses, pending payment of duties.

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James Polk

Question 175

This man notably dispatched John Slidell to another country

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James Polk

Question 175

He restored Van Buren’s independent subtreasuries in the Independent Treasury Act

Answer 175

James Polk

Question 176

This president settled a Nicaraguan canal dispute with the British in the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.

Answer 176

Zachary Taylor

Question 176

This president’s Secretary of War, George Crawford, resigned after his implication in the Galphin Affair.

Answer 176

Zachary Taylor

Question 177

Prior to his presidency, this man led a volunteer army against a far larger force led by Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista.

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Zachary Taylor

Question 178

This man relieved the Siege of Fort Texas with a victory at the Battle of Palo Alto, and earlier had defeated the Seminole Indians at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.

Answer 178

Zachary Taylor

Question 179

This man employed the “Flying Artillery” tactic to lead his troops to victory at the Battle of Palo Alto

Answer 179

Zachary Taylor

Question 179

This man ran as a Whig and defeated Lewis Cass and Martin van Buren in the 1848 presidential election.

Answer 179

Zachary Taylor

Question 180

This president’s secretary of State wrote a letter to Austria saying “The house of Hapsburg are but as a patch on the earth’s surface.”

Answer 180

Millard Fillmore

Question 181

Shortly after that, this president met with Lajos Kossuth , the exiled leader of Hungary.

Answer 181

Millard Fillmore

Question 181

This president’s second secretary of State was Edward Everett, who replaced Daniel Webster.

Answer 181

Millard Fillmore

Question 182

This person is the only president to both become president due to his predecessor’s death and to fire his predecessor’s entire cabinet.

Answer 182

Millard Fillmore

Question 183

Guy S. Hopkins wrote a hoax letter suggesting this person was a part of a plan to overthrow the government.

Answer 183

Franklin Pierce

Question 184

Opponents of this person ridiculed his alcoholism and referred to him as the “hero of many a well-fought bottle.”

Answer 184

Franklin Pierce

Question 185

Under the guidance of State Secretary William Marcy, this politician’s administration published a document pushing for the U.S. annexation of Cuba, the Ostend Manifesto.

Answer 185

Franklin Pierce

Question 186

This man’s vice president is the only one to have been sworn in on foreign soil

Answer 186

Franklin Pierce

Question 187

he was severely injured after his horse fell on his leg during the Battle of Contreras.

Answer 187

Franklin Pierce

Question 188

Two weeks before this president’s inauguration, his oldest surviving son died in a train accident

Answer 188

Franklin Pierce

Question 189

In his lone election, this man ran with William Rufus King as his running mate and defeated his commanding officer from the Mexican-American War, Winfield Scott.

Answer 189

Franklin Pierce

Question 190

This president attended the trial and shook the hand of congressman Daniel Sickles, who was tried with killing Francis Scott Key’s great-nephew for having an affair with his wife.

Answer 190

James Buchanan

Question 191

During this politician’s campaign, he was criticized for saying that ten cents a day was enough for a worker.

Answer 191

James Buchanan

Question 192

Contemporaries like Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown implied that this man and William R. King were in a same-sex relationship, as they spent a decade as roommates.

Answer 192

James Buchanan

Question 193

His attempts to replace Brigham Young as Governor of the Utah Territory became known as his namesake Blunder.

Answer 193

James Buchanan

Question 194

Economic troubles during his presidency were sparked by the wreck of a ship carrying bullion, the Central America.

Answer 194

James Buchanan

Question 195

This president’s party split during its next convention, leading to his vice president, John C. Breckinridge, being nominated along with Steven Douglas.

Answer 195

James Buchanan

Question 196

This man’s “Lost Speech” was supposedly so good that reporters put their pencils down to listen.

Answer 196

Abraham Lincoln

Question 197

In another speech, this man notes that, unlike his addressees, he has sworn an oath to protect the Constitution, and that a “momentous issue” lies in their hands.

Answer 197

Abraham Lincoln

Question 198

In one political cartoon, this politician’s head is held by a rival candidate and is said to be a “fellow of infinite jest” in an imitation of Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick.

Answer 198

Abraham Lincoln

Question 199

One of this man’s campaign slogans originated the phrase “Don’t Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream.”

Answer 199

Abraham Lincoln

Question 200

During his second run for president, this politician defeated the nominee of the “Peace Democrats.”

Answer 200

Abraham Lincoln

Question 201

In his first speech in one post, this man repeated the line “I am a plebeian!”

Answer 201

Andrew Johnson

Question 201

As a Senator representing Tennessee, he was the only member of Congress to remain upon Confederate secession.

Answer 201

Andrew Johnson

Question 202

He gave speeches in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis as part of his failed “swing around the circle” which led to the election of more Radical Republicans.

Answer 202

Andrew Johnson

Question 202

While in the Senate, he pushed for the passage of the Homestead Act, and in 1862 he was made brigadier general of occupied Tennessee.

Answer 202

Andrew Johnson

Question 203

In 1843, this man became the first Democrat to be elected to the House of Representatives from his district in Tennessee.

Answer 203

Andrew Johnson

Question 204

According to Eric Foner, this man opposed “America’s Unfinished Revolution.”

Answer 204

Andrew Johnson

Question 204

He served five months of a second Senate term before dying, and first term ended with his appointment as governor of Tennessee.

Answer 204

Andrew Johnson

Question 205

He drank a great deal of whiskey before his inauguration to one office, resulting in a bizarre speech in which he repeatedly exclaimed “I’m a plebeian!”

Answer 205

Andrew Johnson

Question 206

He is buried under a willow tree which he planted from a cutting taken at the tomb of Napoleon.

Answer 206

Andrew Johnson

Question 207

A scandal during this man’s presidency was exposed after Henry McComb leaked damaging letters to The Sun.

Answer 207

Grant

Question 208

James Frisk and Jay Gould’s attempted cornering of the gold market led to a panic dubbed Black Friday during this man’s presidency.

Answer 208

Grant

Question 209

Oakes Ames was involved in a scheme in this man’s presidency in which Ames undersold railroad construction shares.

Answer 209

Grant

Question 210

In one incident during this man’s presidency, his Secretary of the Treasury hired John Sanborn to collect $427,000 in unpaid taxes.

Answer 210

Grant

Question 211

This man’s Secretary of War, William Belknap, was discovered to have taken kickbacks from traders at Fort Sill.

Answer 211

Grant

Question 212

Rufus Ingalls helped negotiate a failed plan by this president to annex the territory of Santo Domingo.

Answer 212

Grant

Question 213

Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Bristow helped break one scandal during this man’s presidency, which led to the indictment of Orville Babcock

Answer 213

Grant

Question 214

This president’s Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, gave federal grants to his own son.

Answer 214

Grant

Question 215

During his presidency, Bradley Barrow used a $40,000 bribe to stop an inquiry into postal fraud.

Answer 215

Grant

Question 216

This man signed the two Force Acts prohibiting the use of terror to prevent people from voting.

Answer 216

Grant

Question 217

This man signed the Fourth Coinage act which embraced the gold standard and led to the founding of the Greenback Party.

Answer 217

Grant

Question 218

During this man’s presidency, a border west of the San Juan Islands was set via the Treaty of Washington, by which his secretary of state Hamilton Fish resolved the Alabama claims.

Answer 218

Grant

Question 219

He also revised the Naturalization Act of 1790 to include African-born babies

Answer 219

Grant

Question 220

He appointed the Seneca Indian Ely S. Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Answer 220

Grant

Question 221

This president’s veto of the Inflation Bill led to a return to the gold standard the next year in the Specie Resumption Act.

Answer 221

Grant

Question 222

This official appointed an ambassador to England who lent his name to the Emma silver mine.

Answer 222

Grant

Question 223

This president negotiated an agreement that included the never-fulfilled “Scott Plan” to build railroads.

Answer 223

Hayes

Question 224

William Archibald Dunning, who praised an agreement made by this president, names a school that viewed a period ended under this president a failure.

Answer 224

Hayes

Question 225

This Ohio-born president believed in a government that treated people equally based on merit as shown by his appointment of reformer Carl Schurz to Secretary of the Interior.

Answer 225

Hayes

Question 226

This president advocated for the gold standard and vetoed the Bland-Allison Act.

Answer 226

Hayes

Question 227

This man unsuccessfully attempted to place his war buddy Stanley Matthews on the Supreme Court, although his successor would later succeed in doing so.

Answer 227

Hayes

Question 228

The Battle of the Viaduct took place during this man’s presidency as part of a larger strike organized by the Workingmen’s Party, the Great Railroad Strike.

Answer 228

Hayes

Question 229

This man banned (*) alcohol from the White House due to the influence of his wife, nicknamed “Lemonade Lucy.”

Answer 229

Hayes

Question 230

During his lame-duck period, he appointed Nathan Goff, Jr., as Secretary of the Navy to replace Richard Wigginton Thompson, and other members of his cabinet included Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz and Attorney General Carl Devens.

Answer 230

Hayes

Question 231

This president gave his only campaign speech to placate a rival faction at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

Answer 231

Garfield

Question 232

This president received a personal request by one man to be appointed to a “Paris consulship”, which this president rebuffed.

Answer 232

Garfield

Question 233

The Morey Letter painted this president as a supporter of Chinese immigration.

Answer 233

Garfield

Question 234

This president attacked his opponent for claiming that tariffs were a “local issue” to win an election against Winfield Scott Hancock.

Answer 234

Garfield

Question 235

This president ran alongside a corrupt Collector of the Port of New York at the behest of Roscoe Conkling.

Answer 235

Garfield

Question 236

This man commanded the victorious side at the Battle of Middle Creek, and he published a proof of the Pythagorean theorem while in Congress.

Answer 236

Garfield

Question 237

This politician is the only sitting member of the House of Representatives to be elected president

Answer 237

Garfield

Question 238

his administration faced the Star Route scandal.

Answer 238

Garfield

Question 239

William Henry Hunt was appointed Secretary of the Navy by this president, who called for the abandonment of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.

Answer 239

Garfield

Question 240

Morrison Waite was made Chief Justice under this president, who appointed William Robertson as Collector of the Port of New York.

Answer 240

Garfield

Question 241

During an earlier man’s presidency, this man refused ten shares offered by Oakes Ames during the Credit Mobilier Scandal.

Answer 241

Garfield

Question 242

This politician detested porridge so much that he joked that the then-imprisoned and starving Sitting Bull should be fed his oatmeal as it was a worse fate.

Answer 242

Garfield

Question 243

During one event, this man was attacked by a man who had been passed over as consul to Paris by Secretary of State James G. Blaine.

Answer 243

Garfield

Question 244

This man was treated by Dr. Willard Bliss who used cabinet members’ wives instead of trained nurses.

Answer 244

Garfield

Question 245

During one election, this president’s opposition forged a letter from him to a Massachusetts union supposedly voicing his support for Chinese immigration.

Answer 245

Garfield

Question 246

This president ordered the investigation of the Star Route Frauds

Answer 246

Garfield

Question 247

This man’s own rags-to-riches story from the position of canal boy was the subject of a Horatio Alger work, which was written for one of his campaigns for political office.

Answer 247

Garfield

Question 248

After being elected to the Senate, a compromise between the Stalwarts and Half-breeds secured him the Republican presidential nomination in 1880.

Answer 248

Garfield

Question 248

During his Civil War service in the Army of the Cumberland at Shiloh and Chickamauga, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio.

Answer 248

Garfield

Question 249

This man won popular support as mayor of Buffalo after he vetoed a street cleaning bill that would have selected a higher bidder due to political connections

Answer 249

Cleveland

Question 250

In reference to his illegitimate child, opponents of this politician answered the chant “Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa” with “Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”

Answer 250

Cleveland

Question 251

This president, a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, failed to reverse the national depression caused by the Panic of 1893

Answer 251

Cleveland

Question 252

The Wilson-Gorman Tariff, passed during this man’s presidency, enacted the first-ever peacetime income tax.

Answer 252

Cleveland

Question 253

The Dawes Severalty Act removed land rights from Indian tribes under this man.

Answer 253

Cleveland

Question 253

This man was attacked in the “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” speech, which swung Catholic voters to his side

Answer 253

Cleveland

Question 254

he was helped by the support of reformist, anti-corruption “Mugwumps.”

Answer 254

Cleveland

Question 255

One of this person’s campaigns was opposed by W.W. Dudley, who divided bribe-friendly voters in Indiana into “blocks of five”.

Answer 255

Cleveland

Question 256

This president used one of his many vetoes on the Texas Seed Bill, earning him the nickname “His Obstinacy”

Answer 256

Cleveland

Question 257

This man utilized the Schomburgk Line to quell a crisis in Venezuela, and he controversially opposed a train fare discount when governor of his home state.

Answer 257

Cleveland

Question 258

In the White House, this man refused to annex Hawaii

Answer 258

Cleveland

Question 259

This man withdrew the Frelinghuysen-Zavala Treaty from the Senate and campaigned against a federal elections bill he termed the “Force Bill”

Answer 259

Cleveland

Question 260

His first Vice President, Thomas Hendricks, died, leading to a revision of the Presidential Succession Act.

Answer 260

Cleveland

Question 260

The Klondike Gold Rush ended a depression during this man’s second term, the Panic of 1893.

Answer 260

Cleveland

Question 261

He vetoed a bill providing grain to drought-stricken Texan farmers, and oversaw the act establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Answer 261

Cleveland

Question 262

This man’s friend William Wade Dudley allegedly tried to bribe voters in the “Blocks of Five” scandal.

Answer 262

Benjamin Harrison

Question 263

His presidency saw the arrival of the Statue of Liberty, and he sent federal troops to crush the Pullman Strike.

Answer 263

Cleveland

Question 264

During this man’s presidency, the stabbing of two American sailors in Chile resulted in the Baltimore Crisis.

Answer 264

Benjamin Harrison

Question 265

This president signed a bill providing pensions to Civil War veterans called the Dependent and Disability Pension Act.

Answer 265

Benjamin Harrison

Question 266

This president worked with the “Billion Dollar Congress” to pass the McKinley Tariff.

Answer 266

Benjamin Harrison

Question 267

This president endorsed the Federal Elections Bill to help blacks in the South vote, though it was filibustered by Congress.

Answer 267

Benjamin Harrison

Question 268

Under this man’s administration, John Sherman’s namesake Silver Purchase Act and Antitrust Act were both signed into law

Answer 268

Benjamin Harrison

Question 269

Supporters of this president had circulated a document showing British support for his opponent called the Murchison Letter.

Answer 269

Benjamin Harrison

Question 270

Industrialists supporting this president’s campaign were rewarded with the protectionist McKinley Tariff, and he signed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act into law

Answer 270

Benjamin Harrison

Question 271

This politician’s foreign policy was mocked in a letter written by Dupuy De Lome.

Answer 271

William McKinley

Question 272

This president’s Secretary of War Russell Alger was heavily criticized for purchasing “embalmed beef” from Chicago meatpacking companies.

Answer 272

William McKinley

Question 273

Under this president, the Teller Amendment forbade the U.S. from annexing Cuba.

Answer 273

William McKinley

Question 274

This man lost an election for Speaker of the House to the man who combated the “disappearing quorum,” Thomas Reed.

Answer 274

William McKinley

Question 275

The Wilson-Gorman Tariff replaced a fifty percent duty on imports that he framed as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

Answer 275

William McKinley

Question 276

He twice defeated the founder of The Commoner, and fellow Ohio native Mark Hanna aided his “front porch” campaign.

Answer 276

William McKinley

Question 277

A political cartoon depicts this man as a “straddle-bug”, literally straddling the currency question.

Answer 277

William McKinley

Question 278

During this man’s presidency, Congress passed the Teller Amendment in response to his declaration of war

Answer 278

William McKinley

Question 279

This man quietly had black Georgia postmaster Isaac Loften transferred after Loften was almost lynched.

Answer 279

William McKinley

Question 280

A few years after he lost the House speakership to Thomas Reed, his need to repay a debt almost derailed his governorship of Ohio.

Answer 280

William McKinley

Question 281

In one political cartoon, this man was depicted as a waiter offering a variety of imperialist dishes to Uncle Sam.

Answer 281

William McKinley

Question 282

His first vice-president, Garret Hobart, died in office, leaving a vacancy unfilled until the next election.

Answer 282

William McKinley

Question 283

Agreeing with John Burroughs, this author criticized writers of realistic animal fiction in the article “Nature Fakers.”

Answer 283

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 284

This man’s family home was Sagamore Hill on Long Island.

Answer 284

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 285

A copy of this man’s speech “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual” prevented a bullet shot by John Schrank from killing him.

Answer 285

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 286

This man’s first Secretary of State may have written the Bixby letter while he was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary.

Answer 286

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 287

This man once joked that his predecessor had the backbone of “a chocolate eclair,”

Answer 287

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 288

he strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission with the Elkins and Hepburn Acts.

Answer 288

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 289

This man prevented Germany from gaining a foothold in Morocco at the Algeciras Conference

Answer 289

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 290

he was in office during the British bombarding of Venezuelan forts.

Answer 290

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 291

he helped make a secret treaty giving Japan permission to invade Korea.

Answer 291

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 292

He dispatched several warships to Morocco after the bandit Raisuli kidnapped the Greek-American Ion Perdicaris.

Answer 292

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 293

This politician railed against the “doctrine of ignoble ease” in a speech titled “The Strenuous Life.”

Answer 293

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 293

This author’s books include The Naval War of 1812 and a four-volume history of American westward expansion, The Winning of the West.

Answer 293

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 294

As president, his foreign policy initiatives included sending out the Great White Fleet and dispatching naval forces to support an independence movement against Colombia.

Answer 294

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 295

His vice president was Charles Fairbanks

Answer 295

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 296

This man ordered a number of black soldiers dishonorably discharged in the aftermath of the Brownsville Affair.

Answer 296

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 297

This president strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission by passing a law fining railroads offering rebates, the Elkins Act.

Answer 297

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 298

The Gentlemen’s Agreement was made with Japan during the presidency of this man, and the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed during his administration.

Answer 298

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 299

This man created controversy when he invited Booker T. Washington to the White House

Answer 299

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 300

With Prime Minister Katsura Taro, this man names an agreement which established de jure Japanese hegemony over Korea and protection of U.S. control of Philippines.

Answer 300

Taft

Question 301

As Chief Justice, this politician oversaw the case McGrain v. Daugherty which persecuted those involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Answer 301

Taft

Question 302

With Philander Knox, this President established the policy of “Dollar Diplomacy” with Latin America

Answer 302

Taft

Question 303

This man made peace with General Enrique Castillo during his time as provisional governor of Cuba

Answer 303

Taft

Question 304

This man, who succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of War, lost his final election campaign after his predecessor ran for the Progressive Party.

Answer 304

Taft

Question 305

This man held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect Chinese-American Martha Lum’s right to attend school in Mississippi, and he overturned the Futures Trading Act in Hill v. Wallace

Answer 305

Taft

Question 306

This man was opposed by the National Progressive Republican League led by Robert LaFollette, and his administration passed the Payne–Aldrich Tariff.

Answer 306

Taft

Question 307

Jeffrey Tulis argued that this president created the modern “rhetorical presidency” by re-popularizing giving the State of the Union address directly to Congress.

Answer 307

Woodrow Wilson

Question 308

This president stressed that “the world must be made safe for democracy” in one speech.

Answer 308

Woodrow Wilson

Question 309

During this man’s presidency, the Polar Bear Expedition was ordered to Arkhangelsk.

Answer 309

Woodrow Wilson

Question 310

The Arabic and Sussex pledges were issued to appease this president, who passed the Keating-Owen Act and the Underwood Tariff.

Answer 310

Woodrow Wilson

Question 311

Late in this man’s presidency, the Justice Department arrested and deported radicals in the Palmer raids.

Answer 311

Woodrow Wilson

Question 312

Joseph Tumulty served as private secretary to this man, who was advised in foreign affairs by “Colonel” House.

Answer 312

Woodrow Wilson

Question 313

This man refused to create Villard’s proposed National Race Commission.

Answer 313

Woodrow Wilson

Question 314

This first president to hold a PhD defeated Champ Clark to win the Democratic nomination and became the first Southern-born candidate to win a presidential election since the Civil War.

Answer 314

Woodrow Wilson

Question 315

He passed the Adamson Act to avoid a rail strike, and his Treasury secretary, William McAdoo, created twelve decentralized, regional banks

Answer 315

Woodrow Wilson

Question 315

One act that this man passed limited “tying” agreements and price discrimination, so it was called “labor’s charter of freedom”.

Answer 315

Woodrow Wilson

Question 316

This man pushed for a piece of legislation which fixed an eight-hour work day for trainmen in order to prevent a strike, and he also pushed for a piece of legislation struck down by Hammer v. Dagenhart.

Answer 316

Woodrow Wilson

Question 316

In addition to advocating the Adamson Act and the Keating-Owen Act, this president signed the Glass-Owen Act, creating the Federal Reserve.

Answer 316

Woodrow Wilson

Question 317

Legislation passed during this man’s presidency included the Keating-Owen Act to limit child labor and the Underwood-Simmons Act to lower tariff rates, both of which were part of this man’s idea of a “New Freedom.”

Answer 317

Woodrow Wilson

Question 318

This man wrote that the presidency “will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it” in his work Constitutional Government in the United States.

Answer 318

Woodrow Wilson

Question 319

This man’s election bid was managed by his friend William McCombs, and during the National Convention in which he was nominated, he was supported by William Jennings Bryan.

Answer 319

Woodrow Wilson

Question 320

This man supported bills such as the Underwood Tariff, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and the Federal Reserve Act.

Answer 320

Woodrow Wilson

Question 321

He nominated both Robert Lansing and William Jennings Bryan to the post of Secretary of State

Answer 321

Woodrow Wilson

Question 322

This president signed the Thomson-Urrutia Treaty, which granted a $25 million settlement to Colombia.

Answer 322

Harding

Question 323

During this president’s administration, Charles R. Forbes inflated the cost of constructing hospitals in order to defraud the Veterans’ Bureau.

Answer 323

Harding

Question 324

This president’s cabinet included Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who instituted heavy tax cuts.

Answer 324

Harding

Question 325

This president’s campaign focused on a “return to normalcy”.

Answer 325

Harding

Question 326

This man gave the “The Republic must awaken” speech and popularized the word “bloviate.”

Answer 326

Harding

Question 327

This man’s Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, led the Washington Naval Conference.

Answer 327

Harding

Question 327

This man appointed American Relief Administration director Herbert Hoover, to be his Secretary of Commerce.

Answer 327

Harding

Question 328

This president appointed Harry Daugherty as Attorney General.

Answer 328

Harding

Question 329

This President sent federal troops to stop striking coal miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Answer 329

Harding

Question 330

He supported the anti-lynching Dyer bill, but he had to force the resignation of the fraudulent Director of the Veterans’ Bureau, Charles R. Forbes.

Answer 330

Harding

Question 331

Early in this man’s administration, a flood largely destroyed the city of Pueblo, Colorado.

Answer 331

Harding

Question 332

This president personally presented a capsule of radium worth one hundred thousand dollars to Marie Curie.

Answer 332

Harding

Question 333

During his administration, the Nine Power Treaty was signed, reaffirming the earlier Open Door Policy for China.

Answer 333

Harding

Question 333

H.L. Mencken said that this man’s grammar was “so bad that a kind of grandeur creeps into it.”

Answer 333

Harding

Question 334

He was the editor of the Marion Daily Star and married the daughter of Democratic rival Amos Kling, who overlooked his infidelity with Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton.

Answer 334

Harding

Question 334

This president pardoned a raccoon sent to be eaten and kept it as a pet in the White House.

Answer 334

Calvin Coolidge

Question 335

This president repeatedly vetoed the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act against the wishes of his Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace.

Answer 335

Calvin Coolidge

Question 335

He sparked controversy when he refused to visit the victims of the Great Mississippi Flood

Answer 335

Calvin Coolidge

Question 336

he became president after defeating the first Democratic nominee from a slave state since the Civil War, John Davis.

Answer 336

Calvin Coolidge

Question 337

This president signed into law the Snyder Act, which granted full citizenship to Native Americans.

Answer 337

Calvin Coolidge

Question 338

This man won an election where he defeated the third-party (*) Progressive candidate Robert La Follette as well as John W. Davis.

Answer 338

Calvin Coolidge

Question 339

This leader arbitrated the Bread and Roses strike and backed the actions of Edwin Curtis during one event.

Answer 339

Calvin Coolidge

Question 340

led to his presidential inauguration being the first one broadcast live on radio.

Answer 340

Calvin Coolidge

Question 341

This man vetoed a farmer relief bill proposing the government buy surplus production for later sale, though he supported the Curtis-Crisp Act.

Answer 341

Calvin Coolidge

Question 342

the Washington Naval Treaty was ratified during his term, and during this man’s presidency the United States ratified an agreement outlawing warfare “as an instrument of national policy,” the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Answer 342

Calvin Coolidge

Question 342

Before becoming president, he defeated Richard H. Long in a gubernatorial election, and restored Edwin Curtis to office after clashing with Mayor Andrew Peters during the Boston Police Strike.

Answer 342

Calvin Coolidge

Question 343

George H. Nash wrote a biography of this president, who vetoed a Nebraska senator’s Muscle Shoals Bill.

Answer 343

Herbert Hoover

Question 344

This president served as the head of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

Answer 344

Herbert Hoover

Question 345

This president formulated the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend money to banks and insurance companies.

Answer 345

Herbert Hoover

Question 345

Toward the end of this man’s term, disgruntled veterans occupied the Anacostia Flats to demand payment of their bonus certificates.

Answer 345

Herbert Hoover

Question 346

This man wrote that the German economy had “sunk to the lowest level in a hundred years” in a report requested by Harry Truman.

Answer 346

Herbert Hoover

Question 347

This man is credited with helping to avert a famine in the Soviet Union during his time as head of the American Relief Administration.

Answer 347

Herbert Hoover

Question 348

This man’s presidential campaign promised “a chicken in every pot.”

Answer 348

Herbert Hoover

Question 349

This president’s administration released a memorandum concerning the Monroe Doctrine that was written by his predecessor’s Undersecretary of State, J. Rueben Clark.

Answer 349

Herbert Hoover

Question 350

Harry Truman appointed this man to head a commission to reorganize the Executive Department.

Answer 350

Herbert Hoover

Question 351

A baby was among the dead after this president ordered a force led by Walter Waters to leave the Anacostia Flats

Answer 351

Herbert Hoover

Question 352

During this man’s time as the Secretary of Commerce, he ran the “Own Your Own Home” campaign which promoted single-family houses.

Answer 352

Herbert Hoover

Question 353

Some of this president’s domestic programs included the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Answer 353

Herbert Hoover

Question 354

A speech by this politician told of people begging him “don’t frighten us by telling us the facts.”

Answer 354

FDR

Question 355

That speech by this politician posited the “spearhead of resistance to world conquest” as part of the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

Answer 355

FDR

Question 355

Under this president, the reporter Paul Comly French corroborated testimonies given during the McCormack–Dickstein Committee.

Answer 355

FDR

Question 356

An executive order signed by this president created the Fair Employment Practice Committee, which effectively desegregated part of the defense industry.

Answer 356

FDR

Question 357

In one document, these two leaders stated that their countries should “seek no [territorial] aggrandizement.”

Answer 357

FDR

Question 358

One of these two leaders was criticized for violating the Neutrality Act after purchasing from the other in the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement.

Answer 358

FDR

Question 359

This man was told “I’m glad it was me instead of you,” by accidental casualty Anton Cermak after an assassination attempt by Giusieppe Zangara.

Answer 359

FDR

Question 360

The Fifth Party System was created as a result of this president’s formation of a broad coalition of blue-collar workers, minorities, intellectuals, and white Southerners.

Answer 360

FDR

Question 361

At his son’s commencement at the University of Virginia, this president compared a foreign country’s declaration of war to backstabbing in his “stab-in-the-back” speech.

Answer 361

FDR

Question 362

A series of four Norman Rockwell paintings was inspired by this president’s speech describing the “Four Freedoms.”

Answer 362

FDR

Question 363

Among this president’s affairs included one with his wife’s secretary Lucy Mercer.

Answer 363

FDR

Question 364

Figures like Harry Hopkins were members of this man’s advisory committee the “Brain Trust,” and he delivered a record 307 Executive Orders.

Answer 364

FDR

Question 365

This man helped found the U.S. Naval Reserve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a position to which he was appointed by Woodrow Wilson.

Answer 365

FDR

Question 365

He was James M. Cox’s running mate in 1920, and eight years later he would succeed Al Smith as Governor of new York.

Answer 365

FDR

Question 366

Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds was one of the “Four Horsemen” who opposed this man

Answer 366

FDR

Question 367

This man called Alfred E. Smith “the Happy Warrior”.

Answer 367

FDR

Question 368

This man, in response to the “Four Horsemen” and “Black Monday,” called for the Judiciary Reorganization Bill, while his Executive Order 6201 led to the Gold Clause Cases.

Answer 368

FDR

Question 369

Due to exaggerated claims about his military achievements, this man was sometimes sarcastically called “Tail-Gunner.”

Answer 369

McCarthy

Question 370

Karl Mundt served in a position usually held by this man in a trial against him.

Answer 370

McCarthy

Question 371

This man succeeded Robert La Follette, Jr. in his highest ranking position

Answer 371

McCarthy

Question 372

The Tydings Committee was formed to investigate accusations this man made

Answer 372

McCarthy

Question 373

Yasuyo Yamasaki was killed at this battle, which prompted an evacuation from Kiska.

Answer 373

Battle of Attu

Question 373

A Seventh-Day Adventist named Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi served as a surgeon during this battle, as recollected in an extensive diary.

Answer 373

Battle of Attu

Question 374

Codenamed Operation Landcrab, this was the only land battle of World War Two that occurred in North America.

Answer 374

Battle of Attu

Question 375

During this battle, one officer failed to bring ammunition packs to help his side, contributing to their loss at this battle.

Answer 375

Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 376

Hundreds of troops at this battle ended up trapped at Minneconjou Ford after repeatedly attempting to cross a river.

Answer 376

Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 377

Recounts of this battle often feature the Lone Teepee, and leaders on one side were Frederick Benteen and Marcus Reno.

Answer 377

Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 378

Some villages paid a tax on food called the tasa to contribute to this industry.

Answer 378

Silver mining

Question 379

Pedro Romero de Terreros made his fortune in this industry in New Spain

Answer 379

Silver mining

Question 380

In the 17th century, Basques fought for control of this industry in the Vicuña War.

Answer 380

Silver mining

Question 381

One division of this organization was mockingly referred to as “Wisner’s Group of Weirdos”.

Answer 381

CIA

Question 382

The Family Jewels report documented some of this organization’s actions.

Answer 382

CIA

Question 383

Kermit Roosevelt was employed by this organization to arrange Operation Ajax, in which this organization helped to overthrow Mohammed Mossadegh.

Answer 383

CIA

Question 384

Diane Rehm once erroneously asked this man if he had dual citizenship.

Answer 384

Bernie Sanders

Question 385

The extension of the Bush Tax cuts led this man to filibuster for eight hours.

Answer 385

Bernie Sanders

Question 386

He gave a speech at Liberty University citing Matthew 7:12 and framing his support for family leave as “family values.”

Answer 386

Bernie Sanders

Question 387

During one election, this person used the Morgan-Ryan-Belmont resolution to prevent Speaker of the House Champ Clark from receiving the presidential nomination.

Answer 387

William Jennings Bryan

Question 388

Both Arthur Sewall and Thomas Watson were vice presidential nominees for this person in one election.

Answer 388

William Jennings Bryan

Question 389

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, this person resigned as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of state.

Answer 389

William Jennings Bryan

Question 390

Mark Hanna helped one opponent of this person run a successful “front porch” campaign from his home in Canton, Ohio.

Answer 390

William Jennings Bryan

Question 391

This person lost the 1912 presidential election to William Howard Taft.

Answer 391

William Jennings Bryan

Question 392

Workers of this resource engaged in the Battle of Orgreave, and the Colorado National Guard killed two dozen workers of this resource in the Ludlow massacre.

Answer 392

Coal

Question 393

This city was home to an intellectual debate club called the Junto, as documented in an “American life” by Walter Isaacson.

Answer 393

Philidelphia

Question 393

After murdering twenty-one Susquehannock in the Conestoga Massacre, the Paxton Boys marched to this city.

Answer 393

Philidelphia

Question 394

Bifocal glasses were invented in this city, which was taken after the Battle of Brandywine.

Answer 394

Philidelphia

Question 395

Jurisprudence arising out of this amendment established the only two ways to lose citizenshsip, and Lochner vs New York used this amendment to strike down a law setting maximum work hours.

Answer 395

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 396

One guarantee of this amendment is split into “procedural” and “substantive” types, and the phrase “fundamental rights” in this amendment has been interpreted to prevent state governments from depriving their citizens of protections offered in the Bill of Rights, a process known as incorporation.

Answer 396

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 396

On this man’s second voyage, he failed to replicate the route of Willem Barentsz’s last voyage when he did not pass at Novaya Zemlya.

Answer 396

Henry Hudson

Question 397

This man sailed on the Hopewell on an early expedition.

Answer 397

Henry Hudson

Question 398

This man was employed by the Muscovy Company.

Answer 398

Henry Hudson

Question 399

Eli Hart’s store of flour was attacked in the aftermath of this event after a fiery meeting of the Locofocos.

Answer 399

Panic of 1837

Question 400

Devaluation of paper currency occurred in this event due to the issuance of a presidential executive order that was favored by Thomas Hart Benton and the advocates of gold and silver.

Answer 400

Panic of 1837

Question 401

One policy employed by this institution caused construction workers to mail it wooden boards; that policy was Volcker disinflation.

Answer 401

Federal reserve

Question 402

The Federal Open Market Committee enacts this organization’s policy through open market operations.

Answer 402

Federal reserve

Question 402

This body, in addition to setting the discount window interest rate and reserve ratio

Answer 402

Federal reserve

Question 403

This city was the target of a Confederate arson attack on Evacuation Day in 1864.

Answer 403

NYC

Question 403

During the Civil War, the mayor of this city, Fernando Wood, suggested seceding to become the “Free City of Tri-Insula.”

Answer 403

NYC

Question 404

This president claimed that he would “never apologize for the United States of America” after the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian flight.

Answer 404

George H. W. Bush

Question 404

The police superintendent of this city survived more than 70 knife wounds during an event caused by anger over a $300 commutation fee.

Answer 404

NYC

Question 405

This court case was rebuked by a man who criticized the decision by saying “you seem to consider judges the ultimate arbiter of all constitutional questions.”

Answer 405

Marbury vs. Madison

Question 405

At the nominating convention for this president, a speech decrying the “prophets of doom” and declaring there was a “war… for the soul of America” was given by Pat Buchanan.

Answer 405

George H. W. Bush

Question 406

This case was decided a week before the related Stuart v. Laird, which focused on a law that would have led to the plaintiff of this case being named as Justice of the Peace.

Answer 406

Marbury vs. Madison

Question 406

This event was timed to coincide with Harry Hawk’s words, “you sockdologizing old mantrap.”

Answer 406

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Question 407

After this event, Lewis Powell was caught hiding in the house of Mary Surratt.

Answer 407

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Question 407

The perpetrator of this event hid in Zekiah Swamp before he went to the house of Richard Garrett, where he was later shot by Boston Corbett.

Answer 407

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Question 408

This event interrupted a production of Our American Cousin, and its perpetrator may have said either “sic semper tyrannis” or “The South is avenged.”

Answer 408

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Question 409

The S.S. Central America sank while carrying goods from this event.

Answer 409

California gold rush

Question 409

During this event, a group of Wintu Indians were killed in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.

Answer 409

California gold rush

Question 410

The newspaper editor Samuel Brannan was the first person to publicize this event with a headline about James Marshall and the American River.

Answer 410

California gold rush

Question 410

Rocker boxes were used to process large amounts of rocks and gravel during this event, during which Levi Strauss began selling dry goods and jeans.

Answer 410

California gold rush

Question 411

This author diverged with Benjamin Franklin in arguing for the importance of relationships for success in his lecture “Self-Made Men.”

Answer 411

Frederick Douglass

Question 411

In one work, this man described how a man named Bill refused to get involved in a fight between this man and Mr. Covey.