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US President
US presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Known as Father of the Nation, first president of the United States | 1. George Washington |
| Second president - "who took upon himself the responsibility of the peace with France in the year 1800.” | 2. John Adams |
| Third President - purchase of Louisiana, doubled the size of US | 3. Thomas Jefferson |
| Fourth President - presided over the War of 1812, a conflict that was crucial in establishing the United States as truly independent. Began the era of good feelings | 4. James Madison |
| Written by Francis Scott key, Set to the tune of an old English drinking song, it would later be adopted as the U.S. national anthem. | Star spangled banner |
| Established The Monroe Doctrine: Declaring that we would intervene with any European power that tried to colonize land in the Americas, Monroe helped establish a long-standing foreign policy for the U.S | 5. James Monroe |
| He invested to improve infrastructure, creating canals and roads that helped connect a growing nation within US - sixth president | 6. John Quincy Adams |
| Formed the democratic party - creating two party system | 7. Andrew Jackson |
| eigth president who was Dutch and grew up speaking the language of his ancestors, and the first self-made man to become president, having been born into poverty and pulled himself up by his very American bootstraps. | 8. Martin Van Buren |
| ninth president - served for a month before his death. His campaign utilised his charming nature -a relatable friendly man | 9. William Henry Harrison |
| tenth president - first vice president to ascend to the presidency upon the death of the president. | 10. John Tyler |
| Under this president, the U.S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution opened, and the first postage stamps were issued. | 11. James Polk |
| Started the process of bringing California into US, establishing a state constitution that abolished slavery | 12. Zachary Taylor |
| first president to lead the U.S. toward expansion of trade in the Far East | 13. Millard Fillmore |
| he became the first president to hire a full-time bodyguard | 14. Franklin Pierce |
| His unwillingness to entertain abolishing slavery lead to civil war | 15. John Buchanan |
| Abolished slavery and started the United States on the path toward becoming a truly free and equal country | 16. Abraham Lincoln |
| Which US presidents died in office of natural causes | Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D Roosevelt, Warren G Harding |
| Which US presidents were assassinated in office. | Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, James A. Garfield, William Mckinley |
| first president to be impeached. Charged with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, Johnson was acquitted by just one vote. | 17. Andrew Johnson |
| He brought the Reconstruction era near its close, championed the rights of freed slaves, giving black men the right to vote and working to prosecute Ku Klux Klan leaders. | 18. Ulysses S. Grant |
| One of the closest and most hotly contested elections in U.S. history, lost popular vote but won electoral vote | 19. Rutherford B Hayes |
| Second president to be assassinated, second shortest tenure, 20th president | 20. James A. Garfield |
| A champion of civil rights, He secured better educational opportunities for Native Americans, though many of his efforts toward civil rights were blocked by resistance from Congress and the Southern Democrats. | 21. Chester A. Arthur |
| He was the only president to serve two terms that didn’t occur back to back. | 22+24. Grover Cleveland |
| he wasn’t the first bachelor to be elected president, he was the first and, to this day, only president to be married at the White House. | 22+24. Grover Cleveland |
| As the 20th century approached, he became the first president to be filmed. | 22+24. Grover Cleveland |
| Imperialist who brought new territories into U.S. control — Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines. | 25. William McKinley |
| he signed Sherman Anti-Trust Act into law. Designed to protect consumers from the negative effects of cartels and monopolies, it’s still important today. | 23. Benjamin Harrison |
| Elected at 42,he is remembered for his charisma, which revived an office that was beginning to seem sleepy and ineffectual. He placed the office of president back at the center stage of the U.S. | 26. Theodore Roosevelt |
| An academic and a legal thinker, he was the only president who also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | 27. William Howard Taft |
| signed the Indian Citizenship Act, giving full citizenship to all Native Americans, and he helped squash the influence of the Ku Klux Klan. | 30. Calvin Coolidge |
| signed the peace treaty that ended U.S. involvement in World War I | 29. Warren G. Harding |
| he was the first president elected after women nationwide had gained the right to vote. | 29. Warren G. Harding |
| President during world war 1 | 28. Woodrow Wilson |
| at the end of his presidency marked beginning of Prohibition at — though he vetoed the Volstead Act, Congress passed it anyway. | 28. Woodrow Wilson |
| worked to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression with public works projects, increased tariffs and higher taxes on top income brackets, but the economy continued to spiral out of control throughout his single term | 31. Herbert Hoover |
| led US out of the Great Depression and brought America into World War II | 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| He was the only president elected to more than two terms and longest serving President ever | 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Presided over the beginning of Korean war (1950-1953) and Cold war (1947-1990) | 33. Harry S. Truman |
| “There must be no second class citizens in this country. " whose policy is this | 34. Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-1961 |
| His term was a time of great change in the U.S. and around the world, with the Vietnam War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement — it’s hard to pick a single legacy he leaves. | 35. John F Kennedy 1961-63 |
| His Voting Rights Act ended discrimination in voting, and he proudly nominated the first black Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. | 36. Lyndon B Johnson |
| signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, officially ending most forms of segregation | 36. Lyndon B Johnson (1963-9) |
| Impeached due to involvement in Watergate scandal | 37. Richard Nixon (1969-74) |
| Only president that was not elected to President or Vice President to office. | 38. Gerald Ford |
| Ended involvement in Vietnam war | 38. Gerald Ford (1974-77) |
| Longest US combat involvement in a war | Vietnam war (1955-1975) |
| Under which President did US enter Vietnam war | John F Kennedy initiated sending troops to Vietnam but it was President Lyndon Johnson who escalated the participation in Vietnam war. |
| one-term president who went on to found Habitat for Humanity and win a Nobel Peace Prize | 39. Jimmy Carter (1977-81) |
| first years in office were marked by escalating tensions with Communist nations, heightening fears of nuclear war. | 40. Ronald Reagan (1981-89) |
| During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent | 40. Ronald Reagan |
| He helped bring about the end of the cold war and led the U.S. during the Gulf War. | 41. George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) |
| signed several major initiatives into law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protected the civil rights of citizens living with numerous physical and mental health conditions, and the Immigration Act of 1990 | 41. George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) |
| Signed the NAFTA into law | 42. Bill Clinton (1993-2001) |
| launched a "War on Terror", an international military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003 | 43. George W. Bush (2001 - 2009) |
| He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. | 33. Harry S Truman 1945-1953 |
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