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WGU-US Presidents
# and facts about presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Washington | 1st |
| George Washington | Whiskey Rebellion |
| George Washington | Two-term tradition |
| George Washington | Disliked formation of parties |
| John Adams | 2nd |
| John Adams | French Revolution |
| John Adams | XYZ Affairs |
| John Adams | Convention of 1800 |
| John Adams | Peace with Franc |
| John Adams | Alien and Sedition Act |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd |
| Thomas Jefferson | Louisiana Purchase |
| Thomas Jefferson | Lewis and Clark |
| Thomas Jefferson | Marbury v. Madison |
| Thomas Jefferson | Established judicial review |
| James Madison | 4th |
| James Madison | War of 1812 |
| James Madison | Treaty of Ghent (ending war of 1812) |
| James Madison | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| James Madison | Battle of Horseshoe Bend |
| James Madison | Battle of New Orleans |
| James Monroe | 5th |
| James Monroe | Monroe doctrine |
| James Monroe | Missouri compromise |
| James Monroe | Jackson invades Florida |
| John Quincy Adams | 6th |
| John Quincy Adams | Tarriff of Abominations |
| John Quincy Adams | Henry Clay becomes Sec/State |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th |
| Andrew Jackson | Vetoes Bank of US recharter |
| Andrew Jackson | Indian Removal Act |
| Andrew Jackson | Trail of tears |
| Andrew Jackson | Texas independence |
| Martin VanBuren | 8th |
| Martin VanBuren | Panic of 1837 |
| Martin VanBuren | Recognizes republic of Texas |
| William Harrison | 9th |
| William Harrison | Longest speech |
| William Harrison | Died in office |
| William Harrison | Shortest term (died) |
| William Harrison | Pneumonia |
| John Tyler | 10th |
| John Tyler | Texas annexed |
| John Tyler | Maine border dispute |
| James Polk | 11th |
| James Polk | Fifty-four forty or fight |
| James Polk | War with Mexico |
| James Polk | California gold rush |
| Zachary Taylor | 12th |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready |
| Zachary Taylor | Died in office |
| Zachary Taylor | Died of gastroenteritis |
| Zachary Taylor | No to Compromise of 1850 |
| Millard Fillmore | 13th |
| Millard Fillmore | Yes to Compromise of 1850 |
| Millard Fillmore | California a free state |
| Millard Fillmore | Fugitive Slave Act |
| Franklin Pierce | 14th |
| Franklin Pierce | Gadsen Purchase |
| Franklin Pierce | Pacific Railroad |
| Franklin Pierce | Bought land from Mexico |
| Franklin Pierce | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Franklin Pierce | Formation of Republican Party |
| James Buchanan | 15th |
| James Buchanan | Financial crash of 1857 |
| James Buchanan | Dred Scott case |
| Abe Lincoln | 16th |
| Abe Lincoln | Civil War |
| Abe Lincoln | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Abe Lincoln | Crittenden Compromise - 36/30 |
| Abe Lincoln | Gettysburg Address |
| Abe Lincoln | Died in office (assassinated) |
| Abe Lincoln | Killed by John Wilkes Booth |
| Abe Lincoln | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th |
| Andrew Johnson | Midway Islands annexed |
| Andrew Johnson | 13th Amendment (slaves freed_ |
| Andrew Johnson | Civil Rights Act |
| Andrew Johnson | 14th Amendment |
| Andrew Johnson | Impeached but acquitted in Senate |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 18th |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Panic of 1873 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 15th Amendment (voting for blacks) |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Overspeculated railroad |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Force Acts (voting for blacks) |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Civil Rights Act of 1875 (equal accomodations) |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th |
| James A. Garfield | 20th |
| James A. Garfield | Assassinated by deranged office seeker |
| James A. Garfield | Assassination led to Pendleton Act |
| Chester Arthur | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Chester Arthur | 21st |
| Grover Cleveland | 22nd |
| Grover Cleveland | Interstate Commerce Act |
| Grover Cleveland | Dawes Severalty Act (destroys Indian gov) |
| William McKinley | 25th |
| William McKinley | Imperialism |
| William McKinley | Spanish/American War |
| William McKinley | Hawaii annexed |
| William McKinley | Maine sunk |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Panic of 1907 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Panama Canal regulations |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Racial tension |
| William H. Taft | 27th |
| William H. Taft | US steel prosecution |
| William H. Taft | NAACP formation |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th |
| Woodrow Wilson | Workers' Comp Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | Avoids WWI |
| Woodrow Wilson | Lusitania |
| Woodrow Wilson | Sussex Pledge (Germans won't sink unarmed boats) |
| Woodrow Wilson | League of Nations rejected by Congress |
| Woodrow Wilson | 16th Amendment - income tax |
| Woodrow Wilson | 17th Amendment - Senators elected by people |
| Woodrow Wilson | Income Tax |
| Woodrow Wilson | Jewish Supreme Court justice |
| Woodrow Wilson | 18th Amendment - Prohibition |
| Woodrow Wilson | 19th Amendment (Suffrage) |
| Warren Harding | 29th |
| Warren Harding | Separate peace with Germany |
| Calvin Coolidge | 30th |
| Calvin Coolidge | Dawes Plan (reduce German reparation) |
| Calvin Coolidge | Citizenship for American Indians |
| Calvin Coolidge | Outlaws war |
| Herbert Hoover | 31st |
| Herbert Hoover | Stock Market crash |
| Herbert Hoover | Veterans march on Waashington |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 100 Days Congress |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Legislation to fix Great Depression |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Social security |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | FDIC |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | UN |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Pearl Harbor |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Churchill and Stalin |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Served four terms |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Died in office |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | US become superpower |
| Harry Truman | 33rd |
| Harry Truman | Employment Act |
| Harry Truman | Feds manage economy |
| Harry Truman | Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| Harry Truman | Nuremburg trials |
| Harry Truman | Fought spread of communists |
| Harry Truman | Red Scare |
| Harry Truman | 22nd Amendment - 2 term limit |
| Harry Truman | NATO |
| Harry Truman | China goes red |
| Harry Truman | Korean War |
| Eisenhower | 34th |
| Eisenhower | Warsaw Pact |
| Eisenhower | Civil rights |
| Eisenhower | Intervene in Middle East |
| Eisenhower | SCLC |
| Eisenhower | Sit-ins/bus boycotts |
| Eisenhower | MLK's group |
| Eisenhower | Alaska/Hawaii statehood |
| Kennedy | 35th |
| Kennedy | Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Kennedy | Cold War |
| Kennedy | Berlin Wall constructed |
| Kennedy | Bay of Pigs |
| Kennedy | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Kennedy | Space race |
| Kennedy | Nuclear testing banned |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 36th |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Great Society |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Fought poverty/racial injustice |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Vietnam |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Civil Rights Act |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Social Security Act |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Medicare/Medicaid |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 24th Amendment - no poll taxes |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Miranda |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Black Supreme Court justice |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Black Panthers formation |
| Richard M. Nixon | 37th |
| Nixon | Watergate |
| Nixon | OPEC embargo |
| Nixon | Alaskan pipeline |
| Nixon | China relations |
| Nixon | Moon landing |
| Nixon | Clean Air Act |
| Nixon | EPA |
| Nixon | War Powers Act |
| Nixon | 26th Amendment - vote for 18 year-old |
| Nixon | Resigns |
| Nixon | Pardoned |
| Ford | South Vietnam falls |
| Ford | Pardons Nixon |
| Carter | 39th |
| Ford | 38th |
| Carter | Iran Hostage crisis |
| Carter | USSR invades Afghanistan |
| Carter | Pardons Vietnam draft evaders |
| Reagan | Tax cuts |
| Reagan | Stock market plunge |
| Reagan | Gorbachev |
| Reagan | NASA shuttle disaster |
| Reagan | Iran-Contra scandal |
| Reagan | First woman supreme court justice |
| George Bush | Gulf War |
| George Bush | Berlin wall falls |
| George Bush | USSR disintegratioin |
| George Bush | War on drugs |
| Bill Clinton | Welfare reform |
| Clinton | 42nd |
| Carter | 39th |
| Reagan | 40th |
| Clinton | 42nd |
| George Bush | 41st |
| Clinton | NAFTA signed |
| Clinton | Troops in Bosnia |
| Clinton | WTC bombed |
| Clinton | Sex scandel |
| Clinton | Impeached but not upheld by Senate |
| George W. Bush | Iraq War |
| George W. Bush | Patriot Act |
| George W. Bush | Guantanamo Bay |
| George W. Bush | WTC/Pentagon attacks |
| George W. Bush | War in Afghanistan |
| George W. Bush | 43rd |
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