Presidents #1 - #18 Quiz

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Presidents 1-6

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams

Franklin Pierce #1

acquired the Gadsden Purchase

Thomas Jefferson #1

acquired the Louisiana Purchase

Andrew Johnson #1

avoids removal from office by one vote after being impeached

John Tyler #2

became President after John Tyler's death; first usage of Presidential Succession

Thomas Jefferson #2

believed in a limited government; first Democratic-Republican president

John Quincy Adams #1

believed to have made a corrupt bargain with Speaker of the House Henry Clay

Martin Van Buren #1

blamed for the Panic of 1837

James Knox Polk #1

dark horse candidate in the Election of 1844

Zachary Taylor #2

died of Cholera in office

William Henry Harrison #2

died of pneumonia in office

James Knox Polk #2

expansionist president, lead the U.S. through the Mexican American War

James Madison #1

father of the Constitution

Abraham Lincoln #1

first Republican president of the United States

George Washington #1

formerly the Commander of the Continental Army

Zachary Taylor #1

imposed the Compromise of 1850

James Monroe #2

issued a doctrine warning European powers not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere

James Madison #2

lead the country through the War of 1812

Millard Fillmore #2

one of the five "accidental presidents" who supported the Compromise of 1850

John Adams #1

only President elected as a member of the Federalist party

Ulysses S. Grant #2

presidency tarnished by multiple scandals

James Buchanan #2

president during John Brown's raid

Abraham Lincoln #2

president during the American Civil War

James Buchanan #1

president during the Dred Scott decision

James Monroe #1

president during the Era of Good Feelings

Ulysses S. Grant #1

president during the Panic of 1873

John Tyler #1

president when Texas was annexed into the U.S.

Martin Van Buren #2

represented the Free Soil Party in the Election of 1848

Andrew Jackson #2

responsible for Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears

William Henry Harrison #1

served the shortest amount of time as President

Millard Fillmore #1

served with no Vice President

Franklin Pierce #2

signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law

John Quincy Adams #2

signed the Tariff of Abominations into effect

George Washington #2

unanimously elected as President

Andrew Johnson #2

vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1865

John Adams #2

wanted to be referred to as "His Highness"

Andrew Jackson #1

war hero during the War of 1812

President 14-18

Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant

Presidents 7-13

Jackson, Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor


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