Presidents Events

Question 1

George Washington

Answer 1

Constitution

Federalist and Antifederalist Papers

Question 2

John Adams

Answer 2

XYZ Affair (French Quasi-War)
Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Marbury v. Madison (Supreme Court can void unconstitutional acts)
Louisiana Purchase

Question 4

James Madison

Answer 4

War of 1812 (British seizing American Ships. Warhawks. No real reason to fight the war.)
Fall of the Federalist party

Question 5

James Monroe

Answer 5

Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise (MO Slave state. ME Free State)

Question 6

John Quincy Adams

Answer 6

Westward Expansion

“Corrupt Bargain” (Jackson had Plurality of votes. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House, chose to have Adams Win)

Question 7

Andrew Jackson

Answer 7

Spoils System

Indian Removal

Question 8

Martin Van Buren

Answer 8

Panic of 1837

Native American Association (Anti immigration)

Question 9

William Henry Harrison

Answer 9

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Question 10

John Tyler

Answer 10

First telegraph sent

Annexation of Texas

Question 11

James K. Polk

Answer 11

Seneca Falls Convention

Mexican American War

Question 12

Zachary Taylor

Answer 12

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Question 13

Millard Fillmore

Answer 13

Compromise of 1850 (A perceived saving of the Union right before the Civil War)
Fugitive Slave Act

Question 14

Franklin Pierce

Answer 14

Ostend Manifesto (buy Cuba or take it by force)
Kansas Nebraska Act (Popular sovereignty. John Brown: Christ. Bleeding Kansas)

Question 15

James Buchanan

Answer 15

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Panic of 1857

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

NYC Draft Riots

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 17

Andrew Johnson

Answer 17

Black Codes

Civil Rights Act (blacks=whites)

Question 18

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 18

15th Amendment (Black voting)
Civil Right Act of 1875 (Blacks=whites in public and court)

Question 19

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 19

Compromise of 1877 (Unofficial. Ends reconstruction. Hayes can be president if he removes troops from south)
Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

James A. Garfield

Answer 20

Neckeroni and Cheese

Question 21

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 21

Chinese Exclusion Act

Pendleton Civil Service Act (government jobs will hire skilled people, not loyal-to-the-presidents)

Question 22

Grover Cleveland (Part I)

Answer 22

Dawes Act (shredded indian culture)
Interstate Commerce Act (Railroad regulation. "Reasonable" rates.)

Question 23

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 23

Sherman Antitrust Act
Homestead Strike (super violent strike)

Question 24

Grover Cleveland (Part II)

Answer 24

Panic of 1893
Pullman Strike (railroad strike. Coxey's Army)

Question 25

William McKinley

Answer 25

Spanish-American War
Boxer Rebellion (rebellion in China)

Question 26

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 26

Panama Canal

Anthracite Coal Strike (Square Deal)

Question 27

William Howard Taft

Answer 27

Payne-Aldrich Tariff (opposite of what progressives wanted)

Pinchot-Ballinger Affair (selling government land in Alaska)

Question 28

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 28

War Industries Board

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 29

Warren G. Harding

Answer 29

Prohibition

Sacco and Vanzetti (no real evidence used)

Question 30

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 30

Scopes Monkey Trial
Dawes Plan (circle of payments to get payment for WWI)

Question 31

Herbert Hoover

Answer 31

The Great Depression

Hoovervilles (slums)

Question 32

Franklin Delanore Roosevelt

Answer 32

Emergency Banking Act

Social Security Act