US Presidents #2

Question 1

Supported the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 1

Millard Fillmore

Question 1

15

Answer 1

James Buchannan

Question 2

Wrote Gettysburg Address

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln

Question 3

12

Answer 3

Zachary Taylor

Question 3

was impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the US Senate

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson

Question 5

11

Answer 5

James K. Polk

Question 5

President during Civil War

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

19

Answer 5

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 6

Issued Emancipation Prolamation

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

Purchased first ever used machine guns at the end of the Civil War with his own money

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Supported the Compromise of 1850 which further complicated the slavery issue but allowed California to join the Union

Answer 9

Millard Fillmore

Question 10

Supported the Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise

Answer 10

Franklin Pierce

Question 11

President during Reconstruction

Answer 11

Andrew Johnson

Question 12

ended military occupation in the South

Answer 12

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 13

13

Answer 13

Millard Fillmore

Question 13

Was shot and killed by an assassin (Charles Julius Guiteau). His presidency only lasted 200 days.

Answer 13

James A. Garfield

Question 14

First President to die by an assassin - John Wilkes Booth

Answer 14

Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

Insituted Civil Service Reform as an attempt to end political favors from the Spoil Sport System

Answer 15

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 16

His Presidency was filled with scandle

Answer 16

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 18

16

Answer 18

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

Was President during the first half of the Gold Rush

Answer 20

James K. Polk

Question 21

14

Answer 21

Franklin Pierce

Question 22

War with Mexico 1848 - Mexican American War, also known as Mr. Polk’s War

Answer 22

James K. Polk

Question 23

General during War with Mexico

Answer 23

Zachary Taylor

Question 23

First President to appoint African Americans to federal positions

Answer 23

James A. Garfield

Question 25

Was considered a Northerner with Southern sympathies and that is the only way he won the Presidency. It made him ineffective and disliked by many

Answer 25

James Buchannan

Question 26

Was a preacher before he became President

Answer 26

James A. Garfield

Question 27

20

Answer 27

James A. Garfield

Question 29

18

Answer 29

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 30

Helped draft Ostend Manifesto - reasons why the US should purchase Cuba from Spain

Answer 30

James Buchannan

Question 31

17

Answer 31

Andrew Johnson

Question 32

Most Identifiable Union general during the Civil War and accepted General Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Courtmous

Answer 32

Ulysses S. Grant