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Killed Coulon de Jumonville

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Washington

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Led the Watermelon army with Lighthorse Harry Lee

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Washington

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Defused the Newburgh Conspiracy

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Washington

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Passed the Alien and Sedition Acts

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John Adams

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O-grab-me cartoon

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Jefferson

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Commissioned Zebulon Pike to find the source of the Red River

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Jefferson

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Passed the Embargo Act

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Jefferson

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Repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts

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Jefferson

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Wrote Notes on the State of Virginia

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Jefferson

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Opposed Macon’s Bill number two, which was passed anyway during his presidency

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Madison

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Wrote Federalist Papers 51 and 10

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Madison

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12
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Defeated Rufus King for President

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Monroe

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Oversaw the Panic of 1819

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Monroe

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Oversaw the Era of Good Feelings

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Monroe

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15
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Worked to repeal the Gag Rules

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John Quincy Adams

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Only former President to become a member of the House of Representatives

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John Quincy Adams

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Treaty with Luis de Onis

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John Quincy Adams

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18
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President during Peggy Eaton / Petticoat Affair

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Jackson

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19
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Passed Specie Circular

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Jackson

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20
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Attacked a Nicholas Biddle led Second Bank of the U.S.

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Jackson

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Executed the British citizens Ambrister and Arbuthnot

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Jackson

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22
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Kitchen Cabinet

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Jackson

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23
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Treaty of New Echota

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Jackson

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Led the Bucktails, which later evolved to the Albany Regency

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Van Buren

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25
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Dealt with the Caroline Affair

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Van Buren

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26
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Fought the Aroostook War over Maine’s borders

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Van Buren

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Panic of 1837

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Van Buren

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28
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Supposedly used gold spoons

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Van Buren

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29
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Ran for the Free Soil Party in 1848

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Van Buren

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30
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Ran a log cabin and hard cider campaign for the presidency

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William Henry Harrison

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31
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Won the Battle of the Thames

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William Henry Harrison

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32
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Won the Battle of Tippecanoe

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William Henry Harrison

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33
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Won 1840 election

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William Henry Harrison

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34
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Cabinet members were killed in an explosion on the USS Princeton

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Tyler

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Cabinet resigned after he vetoed attempts to resurrect a national bank

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Tyler

36
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Annexed Texas

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Tyler

37
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Suppressed Dorr’s Rebellion

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Tyler

38
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Defected to the Confederate Congress

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Tyler

39
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Nicknamed His Accidency

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Tyler

40
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Passed the Walker Tariff

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Polk

41
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Defeated John Bell to become Speaker of the House

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Polk

42
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Slogan fifty-four forty or fight

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Polk

43
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Nicknamed Young Hickory

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Polk

44
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John Slidell failed to purchase land

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Polk (Mex-Amer War)

45
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Ruled during the Mexican-American War

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Polk

46
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Nicholas Trist ended a war w the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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Polk (Mex-Amer War)

47
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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Taylor

48
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Won the Battle of Lake Okeechobee

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Taylor

49
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Won the Battle of Buena Vista

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Taylor

50
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Called Old Rough and Ready

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Taylor

51
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Signed the Black Tariff

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Fillmore

52
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Switched from a Whig to a Know-Nothing in a failed reelection bid

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Fillmore

53
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Treaty of Kanagawa

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Fillmore

54
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Fugitive Slave Law as part of the Compromise of 1850

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Fillmore

55
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Ostend Manifesto was written to his Sec of State William Marcy

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Pierce

56
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Cabinet included Jefferson Davis

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Pierce

57
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Repealed Missouri Compromise in favor of the Kansas Nebraska Act

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Pierce

58
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Investigated by the Covode Committee

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Buchanan

59
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Led the Amalgamators faction

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Buchanan

60
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In his “blunder,” tried to replace Brigham Young, leading to the Mormon War

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Buchanan

61
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Supported the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas

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Buchanan

62
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Defeated John C Fremont for President

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Buchanan

63
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Wrote the Ostend Manifesto

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Buchanan

64
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Convinced Robert Cooper Grier to side with the majority in the Dred Scott Case

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Buchanan

65
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Only Bachelor President

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Buchanan

66
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Opposed Mexican-American War with his Spot Resolutions

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Lincoln

67
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Cooper Union and Peoria Speeches

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Lincoln

68
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Appointed Salmon Chase to the Supreme Court

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Lincoln

69
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House Divided Speech

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Lincoln

70
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Accused Thaddeus Stevens of plotting to kill him

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Andrew Johnson

71
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Swing Around the Circle Tour

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Andrew Johnson

72
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Resolved the Alabama Claims w the Treaty of Washington

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Grant

73
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Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to corner the gold market on Black Friday

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Grant

74
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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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Grant

75
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Two Answers: Oaks Ames sold shares to VP Schyler Colfax

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Grant (Credit Mobilier Scandal)

76
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Two Answers: Benjamin Bristow discovered Orville Babcock’s involvement

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Grant (Whiskey Ring Scandal)

77
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National hero in Paraguay

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Hayes

78
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Quashed the Great Railroad Strike

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Hayes

79
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Wife was named Lemonade Lucy for support of temperance

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Hayes

80
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Congress overrode his veto of the Bland-Allison Act

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Hayes

81
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Star Route scandal

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Garfield

82
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Fought at the Battle of Chickamauga

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Garfield

83
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Won the Ex Parte Milligan case

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Garfield

84
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Died because Willard Bliss was incompetent

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Garfield

85
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Defeated Winfield Scott Hancock to win the Presidency

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Garfield

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