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American (1607-1860)
American History (1607-1860)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This man defused the Newburgh Conspiracy | George Washington |
| This man was nearly replaced by Horatio Gates in the Conway Cabal | George Washington |
| The Citizen Genet Affair occurred during this man's presidency | George Washington |
| This man's farewell address discouraged foreign alliances | George Washington |
| The signing of Jay's Treaty occurred during this man's presidency | George Washington |
| The Whiskey Rebellion was quelled during this man's presidency | George Washington |
| This man and Harry Lee led the army against the Whiskey Rebellion | George Washington |
| First Secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton |
| First Secretary of War | Henry Knox |
| First Secretary of State | Thomas Jefferson |
| Douglas Freeman wrote a seven-volume biography of this man | George Washington |
| This man was the subject of Henry Wiencek's "An Imperfect God" | George Washington |
| This man was sent by Robert Dinwiddie to Fort Le Boeuf in 1753 | George Washington |
| This man surrendered at Fort Necessity | George Washington |
| This man was the subject of a biography by Parson Weems | George Washington |
| The Pinckney Treaty was signed during this man's presidency | George Washington |
| This man and Harry Lee led the Watermelon Army | George Washington |
| This man was given the nickname "Town Destroyer" by his Iroquois Guide | George Washington |
| George Washington's Vice President | John Adams |
| This man's vice president was John Adams | George Washington |
| President (1789-1797) | George Washington |
| Vice President (1789-1797) | John Adams |
| Won the election of 1789 | George Washington |
| Won the Election of 1792 | George Washington |
| This man worked for eight years to repeal the Gag Rule in Congress | John Quincy Adams |
| This man lost a Senate seat when he went against his Federalist Party to support the Embargo Bill | John Quincy Adams |
| As Secretary of State, this man purchased the Florida Territory | John Quincy Adams |
| After winning an election, this man made Henry Clay his Secretary of State | John Quincy Adams |
| Won the election of 1824 | John Quincy Adams |
| Fries' Rebellion occurred during this man's presidency | John Adams |
| This man served as the first ambassador to the U.K. and the Netherlands. | John Adams |
| The Quasi War occurred during this man's presidency | John Adams |
| This man appointed the "midnight judges" | John Adams |
| This man signed the Alien and Sedition Acts | John Adams |
| This man defended the perpetrators of the Boston Massacre in court | John Adams |
| In exchange for an electoral vote from Louisiana, this man appointed James Brown as minister to France | John Adams |
| William H. Crawford refused this man's offer to continue as Secretary of the Treasury | John Quincy Adams |
| This man appointed Richard Rush as Secretary of the Treasury | John Quincy Adams |
| This man signed a treaty with Luis de Onís | John Quincy Adams |
| In a letter, this man's wife urged him to "remember the Ladies" in making laws | John Adams |
| This man was given the Mendi Bible as a gift for his services | John Quincy Adams |
| This man was the first US ambassador to Russia | John Quincy Adams |
| This man died shortly after calling out "No!" to a House proposal of honoring Mexican War veterans. | John Quincy Adams |
| This man was the defense lawyer during the Amistad Trials | John Quincy Adams |
| This man won the Election of 1796 | John Adams |
| This man lost the Election of 1828 | John Quincy Adams |
| This man lost the Election of 1800 | John Adams |
| The Treaty of Mortefontaine ended this conflict | Quasi War |
| In 1834, this man ran for governor of his home state on the Anti-Masonic ticket but lost to John Davis | John Quincy Adams |
| This president appointed Robert Trimble to the Supreme Court | John Quincy Adams |
| This man proposed an amendment to the constitution making every child born after July 4, 1842 free | John Quincy Adams |
| "Notes on the State of Virginia" | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man signed the Embargo Act | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man sent James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate a treaty with the French ambassador Nemours | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man wrote the Kentucky Resolutions | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man financed the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Won the Election of 1800 | Thomas Jefferson |
| Won the Election of 1804 | Thomas Jefferson |
| President (1797-1801) | John Adams |
| President (1801-1809) | Thomas Jefferson |
| Vice President (1797-1801) | Thomas Jefferson |
| Vice President (1801-1805) | Aaron Burr |
| This man's first Vice President was Aaron Burr | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man was Thomas Jefferson's first vice president | Aaron Burr |
| Vice President (1805-1812) | George Clinton |
| This man was Thomas Jefferson's second Vice President | George Clinton |
| This man's second vice president was George Clinton | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man was James Madison's first vice president | George Clinton |
| This man's first vice president was George Clinton | James Madison |
| Oliver Cowdery was a leader of this movement | Mormonism |
| This groups Nauvoo Legion perpetrated the Mountain Meadows Massacre | Mormons |
| Martin Van Buren rejected the plea of their leader to overturn the Extermination Order that had been issued against them in Missouri | Mormons |
| This group's 1850s "War" with the U.S. is sometimes called Buchanan’s Blunder | Mormons |
| Founder of Mormonism | Joseph Smith |
| Leader of the Mormons (1847-1877) | Brigham Young |
| The doctrine established in this case was argued against by John B. Gibson in the dissent of the Pennsylvania case Eakin v. Raub. | Marbury v. Madison |
| This case declared that Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional | Marbury v. Madison |
| This case argued that the body in question lacked the authority to issue writs of mandamus | Marbury v. Madison |
| This case involved "midnight judges" | Marbury v. Madison |
| This case established Judicial Review | Marbury v. Madison |
| This man signed Macon's Bill, Number 2 | James Madison |
| The First Bank of the United States expired during this man's term | James Madison |
| This man signed into law the Second Bank of the United States | James Madison |
| This man served as Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State | James Madison |
| This man refused to deliver the appointment of a Justice of the Peace, which the Supreme Court ruled was constitutional. | James Madison |
| This man wrote Federalist Papers 10 and 52 | James Madison |
| Edmund Randolph was this man's mouthpiece to propose the "large state" plan at the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
| The War of 1812 occurred during this man's presidency | James Madison |
| This man secured the release of Thomas Paine from prison by claiming his American citizenship | James Monroe |
| The Era of Good Feelings occurred during this man's presidency | James Monroe |
| The Panic of 1819 occurred during this man's presidency | James Monroe |
| This man's only Supreme Court appointment was that of his Naval Secretary, Smith Thompson. | James Monroe |
| During this man's presidency, the Choctaw chief Pushmataha ceded territory to the U.S. in the Treaties of Doak's Stand and Washington City | James Monroe |
| The Adams-Onis Treaty was signed during this man's presidency | James Monroe |
| This man's secretary of state was John Quincy Adams | James Monroe |
| The Rush-Bagot Treaty was signed during this man's presidency | James Monroe |
| After the ambush of a trapping expedition, he sent Henry Leavenworth to suppress the Arikara tribe | James Monroe |
| This politician was appointed Minister to France in 1794 | James Monroe |
| This president sent Andrew Jackson to terminate the conflict in Florida | James Monroe |
| This man defeated Rufus King for the presidency | James Monroe |
| This man's early career included working as an army scout during the Battle of Monmouth | James Monroe |
| His treatise A View of the Conduct of the Executive defended his conduct as minister to France and viciously attacked Washington | James Monroe |
| This man assisted Robert Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase | James Monroe |
| This President's supporters were inspired by an incident in Jefferson's presidency to give him a 1400 pound block of cheese | Andrew Jackson |
| The Petticoat Affair occurred during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| This man's advisers formed the Kitchen Cabinet | Andrew Jackson |
| This man served as military governor of Florida after his success in the Seminole War | Andrew Jackson |
| Victorious commander at the Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
| The Tariff of Abominations was passed during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| The Nullification Crisis occurred during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| The Trail of Tears occurred during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| This president fought the Bank War against the Second Bank of the United States | Andrew Jackson |
| Robert B. Randolph attacked this man after Randolph was dismissed from the navy for theft | Andrew Jackson |
| This man appointed Roger Taney to the Supreme Court | Andrew Jackson |
| The Peggy Eaton Affair occurred during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| This president signed the Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson |
| This man issued the Specie Circular | Andrew Jackson |
| This man's first vice president was John C. Calhoun | Andrew Jackson |
| This man's second vice president was Martin van Buren | Andrew Jackson |
| This man's image appeared on the Confederate thousand dollar bill | Andrew Jackson |
| After defeating the Red Sticks, this man spared Chief Weatherford | Andrew Jackson |
| Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate this man | Andrew Jackson |
| This man vetoed the Maysville Road Bill | Andrew Jackson |
| This man won the Election of 1828 | Andrew Jackson |
| This man won the Election of 1832 | Andrew Jackson |
| This man imprisoned Jose Maria Callava | Andrew Jackson |
| This man successfully defeated a writ of habeas corpus issued by Eligius Fromentin | Andrew Jackson |
| This man asked the president to send him tacit support in a letter from John Rhea | Andrew Jackson |
| This man sent Edmund P. Gaines to destroy the so-called "Negro Fort." | Andrew Jackson |
| This man hung two British citizens in the Arbuthnot-Ambrister affair | Andrew Jackson |
| Victorious commander at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend | Andrew Jackson |
| This man signed the Force Bill | Andrew Jackson |
| This man's Treasury Secretary was Levi Woodbury | Andrew Jackson |
| His wife's divorce from Captain Robards was not finalized before this president married her | Andrew Jackson |
| Some of this man's advisers were newspaper editors Francis Blair and Amos Kendall | Andrew Jackson |
| One political cartoon about this man shows him "slaying the many headed monster" | Andrew Jackson |
| This president nominated John McLean to the Supreme Court | Andrew Jackson |
| The Treaty of New Echota was signed during this man's presidency | Andrew Jackson |
| This man was attacked by the "coffin handbills" | Andrew Jackson |
| This commander defeated Mateo Manrique at the Battle of Pensacola | Andrew Jackson |
| This man dueled John Sevier | Andrew Jackson |
| During this man's presidency, a group of Canadian rebels declared a republic on Navy Island | Martin van Buren |
| The Aroostook War occurred during this man's presidency | Martin van Buren |
| The Caroline Affair occurred during this man's presidency | Martin van Buren |
| This man was the leader of the Albany Regency | Martin van Buren |
| The Panic of 1837 occurred during this man's presidency | Martin van Buren |
| This man's vice president was the only one selected by the senate due to the 12th amendment | Martin van Buren |
| This man's vice president was Richard Mentor Johnson | Martin van Buren |
| This man was Martin van Buren's vice president | Richard Mentor Johnson |
| This man was elected to the Senate over Nathan Sanford | Martin van Buren |
| This man was the key organizer of the Bucktails political machine | Martin van Buren |
| The Amistad affair occurred during this man's presidency | Martin van Buren |
| This man ran for president in 1848 for the Free Soil Party | Martin van Buren |
| This man ran with Charles F. Adams in 1848 | Martin van Buren |
| This man was subject to an attack campaign about his supposed use of gold spoons to dine | Martin van Buren |
| Joseph Smith appealed to this president to intervene against Lilburn Boggs's extermination order | Martin van Buren |
| After supporting William H. Crawford, this politician received Georgia's vote for Vice President | Martin van Buren |
| This man ran the "hard cider and log cabin" campaign | William Henry Harrison |
| Victorious commander at the Battle of Tippecanoe | William Henry Harrison |
| Victorious commander at the Battle of the Thames | William Henry Harrison |
| This man won the election of 1840 | William Henry Harrison |
| This man's vice president was John Tyler | William Henry Harrison |
| This man was William Henry Harrison's vice president | John Tyler |
| This president sent Caleb Cushing to negotiate the Treaty of Wanghia with China | John Tyler |
| When the Civil War broke out, this president was elected to the Confederate Congress | John Tyler |
| This president lost two cabinet members in the explosion of the Princeton | John Tyler |
| All of this man's cabinet, save his Secretary of State, resigned when this man broke with his party | John Tyler |
| Abel Upshur served in this man's cabinet | John Tyler |
| The annexation of Texas occurred during this man's presidency | John Tyler |
| Dorr's Rebellion occurred during this man's presidency | John Tyler |
| Dorr's Rebellion occurred in this state | Rhode Island |
| Fries' Rebellion occurred in this state | Pennsylvania |
| The Whiskey Rebellion occurred in this state | Pennsylvania |
| The Treaty of Webster-Ashburton occurred during this man's presidency | John Tyler |
| This man took John Clopton's seat in the US House of Representatives | John Tyler |
| This man was the President Pro Tempore of the Senate before becoming President | John Tyler |
| The Walker Tariff was passed during this man's presidency | James Polk |
| This man defeated John Bell to become Speaker of the House | James Polk |
| This man's vice president was George Dallas | James Polk |
| This man was James Polk's vice president | George Dallas |
| This man's Secretary of the Navy was George Bancroft | James Polk |
| The Mexican-American War occurred during this man's presidency | James Polk |
| The Spot Resolutions demanded that this president show the exact location of spilled blood on the US-Mexico border | James Polk |
| This man appointed Levi Woodbury to the Supreme Court | James Polk |
| This man's presidency saw the establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis | James Polk |
| This man's secretary of state was James Buchanan | James Polk |
| This man made Caleb Cushing his attorney general | Franklin Pierce |
| This man nominated John Campbell to the Supreme Court | Franklin Pierce |
| This president recognized William Walker's filibuster in Nicaragua | Franklin Pierce |
| This man's Secretary of State was William Marcy | Franklin Pierce |
| This man's secretary of War was Jefferson Davis | Franklin Pierce |
| This man was Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War | Jefferson Davis |
| This man suggested that James Buchanan and John Mason should meet with Pierre Soule to discuss purchasing Cuba | William Marcy |
| The Ostend Manifesto was issued during this man's presidency | Franklin Pierce |
| This future president led the "Amalgamator" faction in his home state | James Buchanan |
| This man was threatened with war by the Austrian ambassador Hulsemann | Millard Fillmore |
| This president sent a ship to Istanbul to help Hungarian refugees | Millard Fillmore |
| The Treaty of Kanagawa was signed during this man's presidency | Millard Fillmore |
| This president signed the Fugitive Slave Act | Millard Fillmore |
| This man is the shortest-living vice president | William Rufus King |
| This man was the American Party presidential candidate in the Election of 1856 | Millard Fillmore |
| This man was the most prominent member of the Know Nothing Party | Millard Fillmore |
| This man received Black Hawk's surrender | Zachary Taylor |
| This man defeated the Seminoles at Lake Okeechobee | Zachary Taylor |
| Victorious commander at the Battle of Buena Vista | Zachary Taylor |
| The Clayton-Bulwar Treaty was signed during this man's presidency | Zachary Taylor |
| This man won the Election of 1848 | Zachary Taylor |
| This man lost the Election of 1848 | Lewis Cass |
| This man's Secretary of State was John Clayton | Zachary Taylor |
| This man died of cholera after eating strawberries and milk | Zachary Taylor |
| This man defeated Mariano Arista at Resaca de la Palma | Zachary Taylor |
| This man was the father-in-law of Jefferson Davis | Zachary Taylor |
| This man's vice president was Millard Fillmore | Zachary Taylor |
| This man was Zachary Taylor's Vice President | Millard Fillmore |
| This man was Franklin Pierce's vice president | William Rufus King |
| This man's vice president was William Rufus King | Franklin Pierce |
| This president supported the LeCompton Constitution in Kansas | James Buchanan |
| This man, along with John Mason and Pierre Soule, signed the Ostend Manifesto | James Buchanan |
| The Crittenden Compromise was passed during this man's presidency | James Buchanan |
| This man negotiated the Oregon Treaty with Richard Pakenham | James Buchanan |
| The Utah War occurred during this man's presidency | James Buchanan |
| This man sent Albert Sydney Johnston to oust Brigham Young in Utah | James Buchanan |
| During this politician's campaign, he was criticized for saying that ten cents a day was enough for a worker | James Buchanan |
| Economic troubles during this man's presidency were sparked by the wreck of a ship carrying bullion, the Central America | James Buchanan |
| This man's vice president was John C. Breckinridge | James Buchanan |
| This man was James Buchanan's vice president | John C. Breckinridge |
| This man's administration was harassed by the Covode Committee | James Buchanan |
| The Dred Scott case occurred during this man's presidency | James Buchanan |
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