| Question | Answer | |
| VP Thomas Jefferson | John Adams | White House becomes Presidential home |
| VP Aaron Burr
George Clinton
State James Madison | Thomas Jefferson | 1803 Louisiana Purchase
1st Barbary War |
| VP George Clinton
Elbridge Gerry
State James Monroe | James Madison | War of 1812
National Anthem written |
| VP Daniel Tompkins
State JQ Adams
War John C Calhoun | James Monroe | 1823 doctrine opposed to colonial intervention in the Americas |
| VP John C Calhoun
State Henry Clay | John Quincy Adams | |
| VP John C Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
State Martin Van Buren
Treasury Roger Taney | Andrew Jackson | Indian Removal Act
Battle of the Alamo |
| VP RIchard Johnson | Martin Van Buren | Trail of Tears
Panic of 1837 |
| VP John Tyler
State Daniel Webster | William Henry Harrison | served shortest term of any President (32 days) |
| VP none
State Daniel Webster
John C Calhoun | John Tyler | 1st President to marry while in office1st President to have a veto overridden by Congress |
| VP George Dallas
State James Buchanan | James K Polk | acquired California and Oregon
California gold rush
established independent treasury |
| VP Millard FIllmore | Zachary Taylor | dies in office after Washington Monument dedication |
| VP none
State Daniel Webster | Millard Fillmore | Commodore Perry sent to Japan
1850 Compromise |
| VP William King
War Jefferson Davis | Franklin Pierce | Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ostend Manifesto |
| VP John C Breckenridge
AG Edwin Stanton | James Buchanan | Pony Express established
Harpers Ferry raid |
| VP Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
State William Seward
War Edwin Stanton | Abraham Lincoln | Fort Sumter attacked
also, the entire Civil War |
| VP none
State William Seward
War Edwin Stanton | Andrew Johnson | Reconstruction
13th and 14th Amendments
1st President impeached
Alaska purchased |
| VP Schuyler Colfax
Henry WIlson | Ulysses S Grant | Transcontinental Railroad completed
Battle of Little Bighorn |
| VP William Wheeler | Rutherford B Hayes | Reconstruction ends with Compromise of 1877 |
| VP Chester A Arthur
State James G Blaine
War Robert Todd Lincoln | James Garfield | assassinated by Charles Giteau after 100 days in office |
| VP none
State James G Blaine
War Robert Todd Lincoln | Chester A Arthur | Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act |
| VP Thomas Hendricks
Adlai Stevenson | Grover Cleveland | Pullman strike
Presidential Succession Act
Statue of Liberty dedicated
only non-consecutive terms |
| VP Levi Morton
State James G Blaine | Benjamin Harrison | Sherman Antitrust Act
electricity in the White House |
| VP Garrett Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
War Elihu Root | William McKinley | Spanish-American War
Open Door policy/Boxer Rebellion
Hawaii annexed |
| VP Charles Fairbanks
State Elihu Root | Theodore Roosevelt | Panama Canal rights acquired
FBI established
1906 Nobel Peace Prize |
| VP James Sherman | William Howard Taft | Dollar Diplomacy
16th amendment (income tax) |
| VP Thomas Marshall
State William Jennings Bryan | Woodrow Wilson | Federal Reserve Act
WW1 |
| VP Calvin Coolidge
State Charles Evans Hughes
Interior Albert Fall
Commerce Herbert Hoover | Warren Harding | Eugene Debs pardoned
Teapot Dome scandal |
| VP Charles Dawes
State Charles Evans Hughes
Frank Kellogg
Commerce Herbert Hoover | Calvin Coolidge | Lindbergh's transatlantic flight
Indian Reorganization Acts
Kellog-Briand Pact |
| VP Charles Curtis
State Frank Kellogg
Henry Stimson | Herbert Hoover | Stock market crash
Hawlye-Smoot Tariff |
| VP John Nance Garner
Henry Wallace
Harry Truman
State Cordell Hull
Labor Frances Perkins | Franklin Roosevelt | Prohibition ends
Social Security Act
New Deal legislation
WW2 |
| VP Alben Barkley
State Dean Acheson
State/Defense George Marshall | Harry Truman | first atomic bomb
UN established
NATO established |
| VP Richard Nixon
State John Foster Dulles | Dwight Eisenhower | Brown v. Board of Ed
Sputnik launched
NASA formed |
| VP Lyndon Johnson
State Dean Rusk
Defense Robert McNamara
AG Robert Kennedy | John F Kennedy | Peace Corps established
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missle Crisis |
| VP Hubert Humphrey
State Dean Rusk
Defense Robert McNamara
AG Robert Kennedy | Lyndon Johnson | Civil Rights Act
Medicare and Medicaid
MLK and RFK assassinated |
| VP Spiro Agnew
Gerald Ford
State Henry Kissinger
HUD George Romney | Richard Nixon | 26th Amendment (18 yr old vote)
Vietnam War ends
SALT agreement reached |
| VP Nelson Rockafeller
State Henry Kissinger
Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld
Dick Cheney | Gerald Ford | Helsinki Accords |
| VP Walter Mondale | Jimmy Carter | 3 Mile Island
Iran hostage crisis |
| VP George HW Bush
State Alexander Haig
George M Schultz
Chief of Staff/ Treasury James Baker | Ronald Reagan | Grenada invasion
Iran-Contra scandal |
| VP Dan Quayle
State James Baker
Defense Dick Cheney | George HW Bush | Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm
Berlin Wall falls
Tiananmen Square riots/massacre |
| VP Al Gore
State Madelin Albright
AG Janet Reno | Bill Clinton | Branch Davidian standoff in Waco
Dayton Peace Accords
Oklahoma City bombing |
| VP Dick Cheney
State Colin Powell
Condoleeza Rice
Defense Donald Rumsfeld | George W Bush | 9/11 and Iraq War
Hurricane Katrina |
| VP Joe Biden
State Hillary Clinton
John Kerry | Barack Obama | Osama bin Laden killed |
| VP John Adams
State Thomas Jefferson
Treasury Alexander Hamilton | George Washington | 1st census
national mint established
Bill of Rights ratified |
