Presidents Test Part 1

Question 1

George Washington

Answer 1

No Party / Federalist
1789-1797
- Hamilton Economic Plan
- Neutrality Act

Question 2

John Adams

Answer 2

Federalist
1797-1801
- XYZ Affair / Quasi War
- Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Democratic-Republican
1801-1809
- Louisiana Purchase
- Burr Conspiracy

Question 4

James Madison

Answer 4

Democratic-Republican
1809-1817
- Second Bank of the United States
- Hartford Convention

Question 5

James Monroe

Answer 5

Democratic-Republican
1817-1825
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Monroe Doctrine

Question 6

John Quincy Adams

Answer 6

Democratic-Republican
1825-1829
- Tariff of Abominations
- American Temperance Society formed

Question 7

Andrew Jackson

Answer 7

Democrat
1829-1837
- Peggy Eaton Affair
- Indian Removal Act
- Nat Turner Rebellion
- Gag Rule

Question 8

Martin Van Buren

Answer 8

Democrat
1837-1841
- Trail of Tears
- 1838 Mormon War

Question 9

William Henry Harrison

Answer 9

Whig
1841
- Dies of pneumonia
- Poor man

Question 10

John Tyler

Answer 10

Whig / Anti-Whig
1841-1845
- Dorr Rebellion
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- Invention of the Telegraph

Question 11

James K. Polk

Answer 11

Democrat
1845-1849
- Oneida Community formed
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Mexican-American War

Question 12

Zachary Taylor

Answer 12

Democrat
1849-1850
- Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
- Free Soil Party formed

Question 13

Millard Fillmore

Answer 13

Whig
1850-1853
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- DC slave trade abolished
- Fugitive Slave Act intensifies

Question 14

Franklin Pierce

Answer 14

Democrat
1853-1857
- Republican Party formed
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Ostend Manifesto
- Gadsden Purchase
- Dred Scott

Question 15

James Buchanan

Answer 15

Democrat
1857-1861
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- South Carolina secedes

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

Republican
1861-1865
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- 13th Amendment -- abolishes slavery

Question 17

Andrew Johnson

Answer 17

Democrat
1865-1869
- 14th Amendment – enfranchises blacks
- Purchase of Alaska

Question 18

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 18

Republican
1869-1877
- KKK Act
- Invention of the telephone
- Whiskey Ring
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Knights of Labor founded

Question 19

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 19

Republican
1877-1881
- Jim Crow Laws begin
- Light bulb is invented
- Great Railroad Strike

Question 20

James A. Garfield

Answer 20

Republican
1881
- Gets shot, dies
- Stalwart vs Half-Breeds

Question 21

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 21

Republican
1881-1885
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Brooklyn Bridge built
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Edison Electric Light Co.

Question 22

Grover Cleveland

Answer 22

Democrat
1885-1889
- Dawes Act
- Wounded Knee Massacre
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward"

Question 23

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 23

Republican
1889-1893
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Populist Party formed
- Hull House
- Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"