presidents & extended q's

Question 1

1841

Answer 1

Whig William Henry Harrison

Question 2

1841

Answer 2

Whig John Tyler

Question 3

1845

Answer 3

Democrat James Polk

Question 4

1849

Answer 4

Whig Zachary Taylor

Question 5

1850

Answer 5

Whig Milliard Fillmore

Question 6

1853

Answer 6

Democrat Franklin Pierce

Question 7

1857

Answer 7

Democrat James Buchanan

Question 8

1861

Answer 8

Republican Abe Lincoln

Question 9

1865

Answer 9

Democrat/National union?? Andrew Johnson

Question 10

1869

Answer 10

Republican Ulysses S. Grant

Question 11

1877

Answer 11

Republican Rutherford Hayes

Question 12

1881

Answer 12

Republican James A. Garfield

Question 13

Why was James K. Polk so eager to provoke a war with mexico?

Answer 13

Polk wanted to claim California, New Mexico, and land near Texas’s south boarder. To begin war he accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on US soil, north of Rio Grande

Question 14

How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the war?

Answer 14

Added moral force to the union cause, strengthened the union both militarily and politically.

Question 15

How and why did the Reconstruction end? What were the effects of its end?

Answer 15

It was abandoned because of the compromise of 1877, election of 1878 was disputed, bribed, and negotiated. Rutherford Hayes inducted to white house.