exam rev. people

Question 1

Signed the charter creating the colony of Georgia on April 21, 1732

Answer 1

King George the II

Question 2

Remembered for two things: losing the American colonies and going mad.

Answer 2

King George iii

Question 3

First American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and farmer.

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.

Answer 4

Benjamin Franklin

Question 5

American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.

Answer 5

John Adams

Question 6

Founding Father who served as the first secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington’s presidency.

Answer 6

Alexander Hamilton

Question 7

An American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson

Question 8

He led a surprise uprising against the British at Detroit, which failed when the British learned of the attack. He and his forces later returned and laid siege to the fort, but ultimately it was never taken.

Answer 8

Chief Pontiac

Question 9

A Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands.

Answer 9

Tecumseh

Question 10

The first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.

Answer 10

Crispus Attucks

Question 11

An American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress.

Answer 11

Andrew Jackson

Question 12

An American politician, soldier, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He created numerous programs to provide relief to the unemployed and farmers while seeking economic recovery with the National Recovery Administration and other programs. He also instituted major regulatory reforms related to finance, communications, and labor, and presided over the end of Prohibition.

Answer 12

Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt

Question 13

An American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.

Answer 13

Jefferson Davis

Question 14

Commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies

Answer 14

Robert E. Lee

Question 15

The 16th man to be elected to the presidency of the United States, and, for many, the greatest. His record speaks for itself: he led the Union to victory in the American Civil War, abolished slavery, and delivered some of the most famous speeches in human history.

Answer 15

Abe Lincoln

Question 16

Unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters

Answer 16

Dred Scott

Question 17

An American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.

Answer 17

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 18

An American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, she made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.

Answer 18

Harriet Tubman

Question 19

Changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. Staunton, Virginia, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S.

Answer 19

Woodrow Wilson

Question 20

President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to lead the Food Administration. He became famous as his country’s “food czar”. He served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.

Answer 20

Herbert Hoover

Question 21

An American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.

Answer 21

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 22

Was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. After consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work.

Answer 22

Harry S. Truman

Question 23

Served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president.

Answer 23

JFK

Question 24

Served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.

Answer 24

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 25

The 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 25

Richard Nixon

Question 26

Served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

Answer 26

Fidel Castro

Question 27

A Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 to 1958, until he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution.

Answer 27

Fulgencio Batista

Question 28

Led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war. Served as the 18th president of the U.S.

Answer 28

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 29

A U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

Answer 29

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 30

An American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis.

Answer 30

Jackson Turner

Question 31

Was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician. He served as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and as president from 1945 until his death in 1969.

Answer 31

Ho Chi Minh

Question 32

A South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.

Answer 32

Diem

Question 33

Nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.

Answer 33

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 34

He rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of “members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring” who were employed in the State Department.

Answer 34

Joseph McCarthy

Question 35

revered as a national hero who liberated the country from foreign occupation and exploitation in China. He became an ideological figurehead and a prominent influence over the international communist movement, being endowed with remembrance, admiration and a cult of personality both during and after his life.

Answer 35

Mao Zedong

Question 36

The first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University, He published widely before becoming NAACP’s director of publicity and research and starting the organization’s official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.

Answer 36

W.E.B Du Bois