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Question 1

Which president passed the Enabling Act, which established the procedures of statehood?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson #3

Question 2

Which president served as Jefferson’s Secretary of State?

Answer 2

James Madison #4

Question 3

Who was president when the United States acquired the territory of Florida?

Answer 3

James Monroe #5

Question 4

Which president signed the Tariff of Abominations that alienated the South?

Answer 4

John Quincy Adams #6

Question 5

Which president signed the Indian Removal Treaty that led to the Trail of Tears?

Answer 5

Andrew Jackson #7

Question 6

Who was president during the Aroostook War?

Answer 6

Martin van Buren #8

Question 7

Which president used the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”?

Answer 7

William Henry Harrison #9

Question 8

Who was president when the USS Princeton disaster, which killed Gardiner, Upshur, and Gilmer, occurred?

Answer 8

John Tyler #10

Question 9

Which president used the slogan “54-40 or fight”?

Answer 9

James K. Polk #11

Question 10

Who was president when the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty established joint control over any canal built across the Central American isthmus?

Answer 10

Zachary Taylor #12

Question 11

Who was president when the Whiskey Rebellion occurred because farmers were forced to pay taxes in the form of whiskey?

Answer 11

George Washington #1

Question 12

Who was president when the XYZ Affair occurred?

Answer 12

John Adams #2

Question 13

Who was president when the first Farmer’s Almanac was published?

Answer 13

George Washington #1

Question 14

Which president passed Macon’s Bill #2?

Answer 14

James Madison #4

Question 15

Who was the first president to be wounded in battle?

Answer 15

James Monroe #5

Question 16

Who became president through the “Corrupt Bargain” scandal?

Answer 16

John Quincy Adams #6

Question 17

Who was the last president that served in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 17

Andrew Jackson #7

Question 18

Who was the first president to be born in the United States?

Answer 18

Martin van Buren #8

Question 19

Which president had the longest inaugural address in history?

Answer 19

William Henry Harrison #9

Question 20

Who was the only president to serve in both the Confederate and Union governments?

Answer 20

John Tyler #10

Question 21

Who was president when Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin were admitted to the Union as states?

Answer 21

James K. Polk #11

Question 22

Which president did not hold any other political office before becoming president?

Answer 22

Zachary Taylor #12

Question 23

Which president was rumored to have kept a slave as a concubine (Sally Hemings scandal)?

Answer 23

Thomas Jefferson #3

Question 24

Which president passed the Alien and Sedition Act?

Answer 24

John Adams #2

Question 25

Which president was also called “the Duke of Braintree”?

Answer 25

John Adams #2

Question 26

Who was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, DC?

Answer 26

Thomas Jefferson #3

Question 27

During which presidency did the White House burn down?

Answer 27

James Madison #4

Question 28

Who was president when Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri were all admitted as states?

Answer 28

James Monroe #5

Question 29

Whose first day of presidency was served by David Atchinson?

Answer 29

Zachary Taylor #12

Question 30

Who was the only president to be in Louisiana when elected?

Answer 30

Zachary Taylor #12

Question 31

Which president created the Walter Tariff?

Answer 31

James K. Polk #11

Question 32

Who was the first president to not have a vice-president?

Answer 32

John Tyler #10

Question 33

Who was president when the Alamo was attacked and destroyed?

Answer 33

Andrew Jackson #7