Presidents 2

Question 0

President’ name: James k Polk
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Answer 0

President’ name: James k Polk
Years in office: 1845-1849 (4 years)
Political party: democratic
Significant achievements outside of presidency: served as governor of Tennessee
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Significant achievements during presidency: Mexican war, Completion of manifest destiny, Acquisition of Oregon

Question 1

President’ name: John Tyler
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Answer 1

President’ name: John Tyler
Years in office: 1841-1845 (4 years)
Political party: Whig
Significant achievements outside of presidency: served as governor of Virginia
Member of both houses of congress
Significant achievements during presidency:
Annexation of texas

Question 2

President’ name: Zachary Taylor
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Answer 2

President’ name: Zachary Taylor
Years in office: 1849-1850 (1 year)
Political party: Whig
Significant achievements outside of presidency: He was a Mexican war hero, He wanted California admitted as a free state without compromise
Significant achievements during presidency: He wanted California admitted as a free state

Question 3

President’ name: Millard Fillmore
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Answer 3

President’ name: Millard Fillmore
Years in office: 1850-1853 (3 years)
Political party: Whig
Significant achievements outside of presidency: Founded the University of Buffalo
Significant achievements during presidency:
Signed the compromise of 1850

Question 4

President’ name: Franklin Pierce
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Answer 4

President’ name: Franklin Pierce
Years in office: 1853-1857 (4 years)
Political party: Democratic
Significant achievements outside of presidency: He was the youngest to have ever been elected to the House of Representatives
Significant achievements during presidency:
Kansas Nebraska act, Bleeding Kansas

Question 5

President’ name: James Buchanan
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Answer 5

President’ name: James Buchanan
Years in office: 1857-1861 (4 years)
Political party: Democratic
Significant achievements outside of presidency: He once served as a foreign minister to Russia
Significant achievements during presidency:
Dred Scott, John Brown’s raid, the lower South seceded

Question 6

President’ name: Abraham Lincoln
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Answer 6

President’ name: Abraham Lincoln
Years in office: 1861-1865 (4 years)
Political party: Republican
Significant achievements outside of presidency: The Lincoln Douglas debates
Significant achievements during presidency:
Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg address, 13th amendment, Winning the Civil Wa

Question 7

President’ name: Andrew Johnson
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Answer 7

President’ name: Andrew Johnson
Years in office: 1865-1869 (4 years)
Political party: Democratic/national union
Significant achievements outside of presidency: Only senator from a Confederate states not to resign his seat during the Civil War
Significant achievements during presidency:
The first president to be impeached

Question 8

President’ name: Ulysses S Grant
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Answer 8

President’ name: Ulysses S Grant
Years in office: 1869-1877 (8 years)
Political party: Republican
Significant achievements outside of presidency: Leading Union victories in the Civil War
Significant achievements during presidency:
Enforced civil rights and fought against the KKK