Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
U.S. Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington | 1789-97 End of Revolution, new government, farewell address |
| John Adams | 1797-1801 Alien & Sedition Acts |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1801-09 Marbury vs. Madison, Louisiana purchase, Barbary war |
| James Madison | 1809-17 War of 1812 |
| James Monroe | 1817-25 Era of good feeling, industrial doctrine, Monroe doctrine |
| John Quincy Adams | 1825-29 Corrupt bargain |
| Andrew Jackson | 1829-37 Spoils system, tariff of abominations, Indian removal act, bank of U.S. |
| William Harrison | 1841 First president to die in office, Tecumseh curse |
| John Tyler | 1841-45 Vetoed bank of U.S., no support |
| James K Polk | 1845-49 Manifest Destiny, Mexican War, Gold Rush |
| Zachary Taylor | 1849-50 Hero of Mexican War, 'Old rough and ready', died in office |
| Millard Fillmore | 1850-53 Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom, trade with Japan |
| Franklin Pierce | 1853-57 Kansas- Nebraska act, Bloody Kansas, Dred Scott decision |
| James Buchanan | 1857-61 Railroads, Cotton Kingdom, John Brown/Harpers Ferry |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1861-65 Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Proc. Gettysburg address, assassinated |
| Andrew Johnson | 1865-69 Recon- Radical Republicans, 13th & 14th amendments, impeached |
| Ulysses S Grant | 1869-77 Recon- Carpetbaggers & scalawags, 15th amendment |
| Rutherford B Hayes | 1877-81 Ended Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, Cattle Kingdom |
| James A Garfield | 1881 assassinated |
| Chester A Arthur | 1881-85 immigration boom, 'Elegant Arthur' |
| Grover Cleveland | 1885-89 Interstate Commerce Act |
| Benjamin Harrison | 1889-93 Plains Indian conflicts, Sherman Anti-trust act, populist |
| Grover Cleveland | 1893-97 Age of invention Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| William McKinley | 1897-01 Alaska & Hawaii, Spanish-American War, assassinated |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-09 Panama Canal, trust busting , Square Deal |
| William Howard Taft | 1909-13 16th & 17th amendments |
| Woodward Wilson | 1913-21 New Freedom, 18th and 19th amendments, World War 1, Russian Rev. |
| Warren Harding | 1921-23 Ohio gang, teapot dome, ect. scandals, died in office |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1923-29 "Silent Cal", Jazz Age, Roaring 20s |
| Herbert Hoover | 1929-33 Great Depression, Bonus Army |
| Franklin Delano Rooselvent | 1933-45 New Deal, World War II, 4 terms, died in office |
| Harry S Truman | 1945-53 Korean War, McCarthyism & Red Scare |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | 1953-61 Alaska & Hawaii, Iron Curtain, Brown vs. Board of Ed., Civil Rights |
| John F Kennedy | 1961-63 Camelot, Peace Corps, Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile, assassination |
| Lyndon B Johnson | 1963-69 Great Society, Civil Rights, Vietnam |
| Richard Nixon | 1969-74 Woodstock, Watergate, impeached |
| Gerald Ford | 1974-77 Only appointed, not elected president |
| Jimmy Carter | 1977-81 Inflation & Oil Crisis, Camp David Accords, Cold War, Iranian Hostages |
| Ronald Regan | 1981-89 Cold War & Arms Race, Iron-Contra Scandal, challenger |
| George H Bush | 1989-93 End of Cold War & fall of communism, Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia |
| Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 Health Care Reform, Okla bombing, Lewinsky, Columbine |
| George W Bush | 2001-09 9-11 & Terrorism, War in Afghanistan, Iraqi War |
| Barack Obama | 2009-17 Death of binladen, banking bailout, Obama Care, gay marriage |
| Donald Trump | 2017- present Build wall to block out illegal immigrants |
| Martin Van Buren | 1837-41 Panic of 1837 |
Created by:
feliciavigil95
Popular History sets