Presidents (Part 1) Flashcards
Name the President: Ambassador to France and the Dutch Republic
John Adams
Name the President: President from 1809 to 1817
James Madison
Name the President: Number: 41
George H. W. Bush
Name the President: 1868, 1872 - Republican
Ulysses S. Grant
Name the President: Number: 35
John F. Kennedy
Name the President: Crossed the Delaware with Washington in the famous painting
James Monroe
Name the President: Only President to have spoken English as a second language
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: 1988 - Republican
George H. W. Bush
Name the President: Beat: John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: Between: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Name the President: His Presidency led to the creation of the Whig party, named after anti-monarchists who saw him as a king
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Sent federal troops to quell Nat Turner’s slave rebellion
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: VP: None, One of four Presidents never have a VP (Chestur A Arthur, Millard Fillmore, and Andrew Johnson)
John Tyler
Name the President: May have had children with Sally Hemmings
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: Hero and General of the Mexican-American war
Zachary Taylor
Name the President: –1924 - Republican
Calvin Coolidge
Name the President: Between: Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Donald Trump
Name the President: 1860, 1864 - Republican, National Union
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Number: 39
Jimmy Carter
Name the President: VP: Dan Quayle
George H. W. Bush
Name the President: Nickname: Old Hickory
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Between: Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur
James A. Garfield
Name the President: 1880 - Republican
James A. Garfield
Name the President: Number: 10
John Tyler
Name the President: VP: Aaron Burr, George Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: VP: Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Name the President: President from 2017 to 2021
Donald Trump
Name the President: President from 1993 to 2001
Bill Clinton
Name the President: VP: Alben W. Barkley
Harry S. Truman
Name the President: VP: Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Name the President: 1852 - Democratic
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: Served as Secretary of State for Andrew Jackson’s first administration, but resigned during the Pettitcoat affair
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: Known for the “four great measures” of his administration: Walker Tariff, Reestablishment of the Treasury, Oregon, and California/NM from Mexico
James K. Polk
Name the President: Between: John Tyler and Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
Name the President: From Virginia:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Woodrow Wilson
Name the President: Secretary: Albert Gallatin (Treasury)
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: President during the Second Seminole War
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: Between: James Madison and John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
Name the President: Beat: Henry Clay
James K. Polk
Name the President: Won three consecutive popular votes, but lost one election to Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Beat: James M. Cox
Warren G. Harding
Name the President: President from 1945 to 1953
Harry S. Truman
Name the President: 1856 - Democratic
James Buchanan
Name the President: – - Republican (Not Chester A Arthur)
Gerald Ford
Name the President: “The Bank War” was during his Presidency
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Beat: Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S. Truman
Name the President: First President to live in the White House
John Adams
Name the President: Shot and killed by Charles J. Guiteau while in office
James A. Garfield
Name the President: Set the precedent that a VP becomes President upon a President’s death
John Tyler
Name the President: Number: 14
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: President from 1981 to 1989
Ronald Reagan
Name the President: Lost the popular vote but won with a Congressional Commission on the agreement he would end the Reconstruction era
Rutherford B. Hayes
Name the President: Only US President to remain a lifelong bachelor
James Buchanan
Name the President: Between: Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: Number: 46
Joe Biden
Name the President: Lived at Montpelier Plantation
James Madison
Name the President: defended British soldiers of the Boston Massacre
John Adams
Name the President: VP: Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Name the President: Number: 42
Bill Clinton
Name the President: Northen Democrat sympathetic to slave states in antebellum America
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: Nickname: Father of his Country
George Washington
Name the President: Number: 43
George W. Bush
Name the President: SCOTUS Appt: John Marshall
John Adams
Name the President: Elections: 1788, 1792; Ran unopposed
George Washington
Name the President: First Lady: Eliza McCardle
Andrew Johnson
Name the President: Beat: Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Name the President: On the two dollar bill
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: 2008, 2012 - Democratic
Barack Obama
Name the President: Secretary of State: William H Seward (not Johnson)
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Known for annexing Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican Cession after winning the Mexican-American War
James K. Polk
Name the President: Beat: Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern
Richard Nixon
Name the President: President during the Panic of 1893
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Wrote the Virginia Plan at the Constutional Convention
James Madison
Name the President: Organized the Demotratic-Republican Party with Jefferson
James Madison
Name the President: Spouse (No First Lady, died before office): Hannah Hoes
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: Second minister to France (after Franklin)
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: Presided over the creation of the Second Bank of the US
James Madison
Name the President: Beat: None (succeeded Nixon)
Gerald Ford
Name the President: Broke up the Great Railroad strike of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Name the President: Secretary of State: William H Seward (not Lincoln)
Andrew Johnson
Name the President: Beat: Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Name the President: Number: 37
Richard Nixon
Name the President: only President unanimously elected
George Washington
Name the President: Liberia’s capital is named after him, because he wanted to send free slaves back to Africa
James Monroe
Name the President: Elminiated the Whiskey excise
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: Number: 26
Theodore Roosevelt
Name the President: Beat: Alton B. Parker
Theodore Roosevelt
Name the President: Between: George W. Bush and Donald Trump
Barack Obama
Name the President: President from 1923 to 1929
Calvin Coolidge
Name the President: President from 1889 to 1893
Benjamin Harrison
Name the President: Number: 29
Warren G. Harding
Name the President: Signed the Adams-Onis Treaty, secruing Florida
James Monroe
Name the President: VP: Levi P. Morton
Benjamin Harrison
Name the President: Number: 16
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Only President to serve in the senate after his Presidency
Andrew Johnson
Name the President: President from 1850 to 1853
Millard Fillmore
Name the President: Suspended habeas corpus on domestic soil
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Intervened in the Pullman Strikes
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Son of another President (not George Bush)
John Quincy Adams
Name the President: Issued a “doctrine” with his name in it, limiting European activity in the Americas
James Monroe
Name the President: Beat: None (succeeded Garfield)
Chester A. Arthur
Name the President: From New Jersey:
Woodrow Wilson
Name the President: VP: Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Name the President: Number: 32
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Name the President: Helped draft the Bill of Rights
James Madison
Name the President: Was President during the first years of the Era of Good Feelings
James Madison
Name the President: Between: No one and John Adams
George Washington
Name the President: Beat: Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Name the President: Between: Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe
James Madison
Name the President: President during the US v Armistad SCOTUS case allowing a slave ship where the slaves freed themselves to go back to Africa, even though his own administration opposed it
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: 1884 - Democratic
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Number: 17
Andrew Johnson
Name the President: Between: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Name the President: – - Whig
Millard Fillmore
Name the President: 1848 - Whig
Zachary Taylor
Name the President: Won in 1832, lost in 1836 and 1840, failed to get nomination in 1844
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: Founded the Dmocratic-Rpublican party with James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: With Martin Van Buren, FDR, and Teddy Roosevelt, one of 4 NY Governors to become President
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Beat: None (succeeded Lincoln)
Andrew Johnson
Name the President: Beat: John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: VP: John C. Calhoun (1st)
John Quincy Adams
Name the President: One side of the SCOTUS case that established Judicial Review
James Madison
Name the President: VP: John C. Calhoun (2nd), Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: 1952, 1956 - Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Name the President: 1968, 1972 - Republican
Richard Nixon
Name the President: Appointed SCOTUS Chief Justice Roger B Tanney, who made the Dredd Scott decision
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Died on July 4, but not the same year as Adams and Jefferson
James Monroe
Name the President: First President elected without ever having held public political office
Zachary Taylor
Name the President: Number: 20
James A. Garfield
Name the President: Between: Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Name the President: Between: George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Name the President: President from 1881 to 1881
James A. Garfield
Name the President: –1948 - Democratic
Harry S. Truman
Name the President: Beat: Stephen A. Douglas, George B. McClellan
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: VP: Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon B. Johnson
Name the President: President during the US-French Quasi-War
John Adams
Name the President: VP: John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Name the President: President from 1845 to 1849
James K. Polk
Name the President: Won a contingent election decided by Congress after no candidate got a supermajority in the electoral college. Not 1800 or 1837
John Quincy Adams
Name the President: Refused to admit Texas as a slave state
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: Wanted Washington to be called “highness” or “Protector of Thier Liberties”
John Adams
Name the President: Between: William McKinley and William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Name the President: Secretary: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Treasury) - 1st
John Adams
Name the President: No VP – - Republican (not Gerald Ford)
Chester A. Arthur
Name the President: Number: 15
James Buchanan
Name the President: President from 1853 to 1857
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: President during Bleeding Kansas, the period of violence during Kansas becoming a state
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: Between: Grover Cleveland and Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Name the President: Number: 6
John Quincy Adams
Name the President: President from 2009 to 2017
Barack Obama
Name the President: Between: Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Name the President: Appointed SCOTUS Judges: William Johnson, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Thomas Todd
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: Popularity eroded due to the Panic of 1837
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: General in the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Signed a bill to admit Texas as a state just before the end of his Presidency
John Tyler
Name the President: Won the battle of Shiloh
Ulysses S Grant
Name the President: Won the Battle of New Orleans against the British
Andrew Jackson
Name the President: Elections: 1816, 1820 (Democratic-Republican)
James Monroe
Name the President: Neutrality Proclamation
George Washington
Name the President: Number: 34
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Name the President: The last President to be a member of the Whig Party while in office
Millard Fillmore
Name the President: 1892 - Democratic
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Failed to annex Florida
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: From Arkansas:
Bill Clinton
Name the President: Between: Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Between: Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Name the President: Son died in a train crash in beginning of his presidency, later became a heavy drinker
Franklin Pierce
Name the President: President from 1817 to 1825
James Monroe
Name the President: Along with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, born in 1946
George W. Bush
Name the President: Between: William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Name the President: Between: James Monroe and Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Name the President: President from 1877 to 1881
Rutherford B. Hayes
Name the President: VP: John Adams
George Washington
Name the President: VP: No VP, 1881-1884
Chester A. Arthur
Name the President: Last Founding Father to serve as President
James Monroe
Name the President: Shot at Ford’s Theater watching Our American Cousin
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Party: Democratic-Republican (1800 and 1804)
Thomas Jefferson
Name the President: From Vermont:
Calvin Coolidge
Name the President: Number: 36
Lyndon B. Johnson
Name the President: enacted the Direct Tax which led to Frie’s Rebellion
John Adams
Name the President: Number: 2
John Adams
Name the President: Debated Douglas in Senate campaign
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Nickname: Old Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
Name the President: Between: Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Name the President: Children: Robert, Edward, Willie, Tad
Abraham Lincoln
Name the President: Along with Bill Clinton and George W Bush, born in 1946
Donald Trump
Name the President: Served as a British officer in the French and Indian War
George Washington
Name the President: Number: 45
Donald Trump
Name the President: Beat: Lewis Cass
Zachary Taylor
Name the President: Signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, establishing the Maine-Canada border
John Tyler
Name the President: Number: 22
Grover Cleveland
Name the President: Between: Andrew Johnson and Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
Name the President: President from 1837 to 1841
Martin Van Buren
Name the President: VP: Daniel D Tompkins
James Monroe
Name the President: Attended Harvard in 1751
John Adams
Name the President: VP: James S. Sherman
William Howard Taft
Name the President: Signed the Alien and Sedition Acts
John Adams
Name the President: VP: Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson
Ulysses S. Grant
Name the President: Made people call him “Mr. President”
George Washington
Name the President: Instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in slavery tensions
Millard Fillmore