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Secs. of State
YGK These Secretaries of State
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The president under whom Thomas Jefferson served as Secretary of State | Washington |
| The cabinet position held by Thomas Jefferson from 1790-1793 | Secretary of State |
| The Secretary of State who founded the Democratic-Republicans | Thomas Jefferson |
| The person with whom Thomas Jefferson began a feud while in office, despite having no bearing on his office | Alexander Hamilton |
| The demands Thomas Jefferson failed to secure from the British, leading to his resignation | Compensation for released slaves, withdrawal from garrisons, admission of violating Treaty of Paris |
| The president under whom Henry Clay served as Secretary of State | John Quincy Adams |
| The "corrupt bargain" helped this person win the House vote for the presidency in 1824 | John Quincy Adams |
| The person appointed Secretary of State as a result of the "corrupt bargain" | Henry Clay |
| The name of Henry Clay's slave who sued for her freedom in a move foreshadowing the Dred Scott case | Charlotte Dupuy |
| The number of times Henry Clay lost presidential elections as a Whig candidate prior to the Compromise of 1850 | Three times |
| The president under whom Daniel Webster first served as Secretary of State (1841-1843) | Harrison and Tyler |
| The president under whom Daniel Webster served in his second term (1850-1852) | Fillmore |
| The treaty negotiated by Daniel Webster that defined the border between Maine and New Brunswick | Webster-Ashburton treaty |
| The issue that caused Whigs to resign in protest from Tyler's cabinet, leading Webster to leave his post | National bank issue |
| The Secretary of State who lost popularity with New Englanders for upholding the Compromise of 1850 | Daniel Webster |
| The president under whom William H. Seward served (1861-1869) | Lincoln and Johnson |
| The Secretary of State who wanted to resign prior to Lincoln’s inauguration, but the request was denied | William H. Seward |
| The treaty between the U.S. and U.K. that set conditions to end the Atlantic slave trade | Lyons-Seward treaty |
| The Secretary of State who survived an assassination attempt the night Lincoln was shot | William H. Seward |
| The purchase of Alaska from Russia by Seward was completed on this date | March 30, 1867 |
| The price paid for Alaska from Russia | Close to two cents an acre |
| The president under whom John Hay served (1898-1905) | McKinley and Roosevelt |
| The treaty negotiated by John Hay in 1898 that ended the Spanish-American War | Treaty of Paris |
| The Secretary of State who established the “open door policy” with China | John Hay |
| The person John Hay served as a personal secretary to while working in the Interior Department | Abraham Lincoln |
| The treaty negotiated by John Hay that established the Panama Canal Zone in 1903 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
| The president under whom Elihu Root served (1905-1909), succeeding John Hay | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The Secretary of State who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 for attempting to bring nations together for arbitration | Elihu Root |
| The person who moved the consular service under the umbrella of the civil service | Elihu Root |
| The Secretary of State who settled border disputes regarding Alaska and Canada with Great Britain | Elihu Root |
| The president under whom Cordell Hull served (1933-1944) | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| The Secretary of State known as “Father of the United Nations” | Cordell Hull |
| The person awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his work in founding the United Nations | Cordell Hull |
| The namesake note sent to Japan prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor trying to force Japanese out of French Indochina, China, and Manchukuo | Hull Note |
| The president under whom George Marshall served (1947-1949) | Truman |
| The general who oversaw the largest expansion of the U.S. military in its history and wrote the central strategy for the Allies in Europe | George Marshall |
| The plan to help Europe recover after World War II from 1948 to 1952 devised by George Marshall | The Marshall Plan |
| The organization George Marshall was president of after he left his post as Secretary of State | American Red Cross |
| The person who correctly predicted that Israel’s declaration of statehood would lead to war and attempted to mediate the Chinese Civil War | George Marshall |
| The president under whom Dean Acheson served (1949-1953), as successor to Marshall | Truman |
| The Secretary of State known primarily for developing the policy of containment against Communism | Dean Acheson |
| The organization created by Dean Acheson in 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| The title of Dean Acheson's autobiography, a major source for Cold War historians | Present at the Creation |
| The president under whom Henry Kissinger served (1973-1977) | Nixon and Ford |
| The Secretary of State who held the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks that resulted in SALT I with the Soviet Union | Henry Kissinger |
| The policy pursued by Henry Kissinger to de-escalate the Cold War | Détente |
| The year Henry Kissinger was instrumental in opening relations with China | 1972 |
| The Secretary of State who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for negotiation of the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War | Henry Kissinger |
| The type of diplomacy used by Kissinger to settle the Yom Kippur War among Egypt, Syria, and Israel | Shuttle diplomacy |
| The president under whom Hillary Clinton served (2009-2013) | Obama |
| The former Senator from New York who was appointed by President Clinton as the face of the failed 1993 health care bill | Hillary Clinton |
| The person who sought the Democratic nomination for President in 2008, losing to Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton |
| The Secretary of State who presented a “reset button” to Russia | Hillary Clinton |
| The ambassador whose death in Benghazi led Hillary Clinton to accept formal responsibility for failures in consulate security | Christopher Stephens |
| The president under whom John Kerry served (2014-2016) | Obama |
| The person who served as a senator from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee | John Kerry |
| The person who received the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2004 but lost to George W. Bush | John Kerry |
| The major foreign policy involvement John Kerry had during his tenure as Secretary of State | The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran |
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