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During this man’s presidency, twenty-four stockbrokers met under a tree in Manhattan to sign the Buttonwood Agreement.

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George Washington

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After leaving North Carolina, the preacher Herman Husband fomented anger against a tax passed by this president.

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George Washington

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A two-year long economic panic during this man’s presidency was caused by a land speculation bubble driven by Robert Morris.

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George Washington

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During this man’s presidency, a “dinner-table bargain” led to the passage of the Funding Act, which allowed the federal government to assume state debts.

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George Washington

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Early in his career, this man served as an emissary to a Mingo chieftain known as the “Half King.”

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George Washington

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That chieftain, Tanacharison, helped this man win the Battle of Jumonville Glen.

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George Washington

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An expedition led by John Forbes culminated in this man’s forces’ capture of Fort Duquesne.

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George Washington

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This man led a heroic retreat at the Battle of Monongahela during the Braddock Expedition.

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George Washington

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This man gifted a bottle of rum to the Seneca Queen Alliquippa in thanks for the aid of her son, Kanuksusy.

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George Washington

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This man presided at Edward Braddock’s funeral after the Battle of Monongahela.

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George Washington

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He and James Mackay surrendered Fort Necessity to a French force

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George Washington

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This man was aided by the Mingo chief Tanacharison at the Battle of Jumonville Glen and exclaimed “It’s a fine fox chase my boys!” during the Battle of Princeton.

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George Washington

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This man declared that he had grown “almost blind in the service of my country” in a speech that ended the Newburgh Conspiracy, and he was the target of the conway Cabal.

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George Washington

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This general screamed at second-in-command Charles Lee during an oppressively hot battle which gave his horse heatstroke.

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George Washington

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This man miraculously evacuated 9000 troops across Brooklyn Ferry without a single loss of life.

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George Washington

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This man ordered Ezra Lee to attempt a submarine explosive attack on the HMS Eagle

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George Washington

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This man responded to praise from Moses Seixas in his “Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport.”

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George Washington

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This man said that “overgrown military establishments” are hostile to liberty in a speech explaining that North and South, and East and West, were in “unrestrained intercourse.”

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George Washington

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At one battle, this man constructed redoubts overlooking Brenton’s Ford but came under artillery fire from Wilhelm von Knyphausen.

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George Washington

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At another battle, Adam Stephen’s drunkenness caused this man’s forces to fire upon each other accidentally.

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George Washington

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This general lost one battle when his subordinate, Adam Stephen, was intoxicated during it.

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George Washington

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In one speech, this man stated “Let me conjure you … to express our utmost horror and detestation of the man who … attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.”

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George Washington

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During this man’s presidency, the Revenue Cutter Service was formed.

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George Washington

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One controversy during his term involved the arming of the Little Sarah.

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George Washington

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The constitutionality of one policy advanced by this leader was debated by the Pacificus and Helvidius letters; that policy was prompted by the Citizen Genet affair.

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George Washington

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During his tenure, the territory of the United States was expanded in the Treaty of Greenville.

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George Washington

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Douglas Freeman wrote a seven-volume biography of this man, who was also the subject of Henry Wiencek’s An Imperfect God.

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George Washington

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This president’s political opponents attacked him for handing over Hermione mutineer Thomas Nash to be hanged by the British in Jamaica.

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John Adams

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Publisher Matthew Lyon won reelection from jail after attacking the “selfish avarice” of this president.

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John Adams

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New taxes imposed by this man’s administration prompted an auctioneer to rally Pennsylvania Dutch farmers in Fries’s Rebellion.

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John Adams

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A bill signed into law by this president increased from five years to fourteen years the minimum time needed for naturalization

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John Adams

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This man faced a rebellion caused in part by the passage of the House Tax Law, in which around 100 people rode to Quakerstown and captured federal tax assessors.

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John Adams

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This man said “facts are stubborn things” during his defense of John Preston for his role in the Boston Massacre.

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John Adams

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This leader defended the Articles of Confederation in a 1787 Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States.

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John Adams

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This leader asked Benjamin Rush if his election was a “curse or blessing” after Alexander Hamilton convinced several electors to not vote for him.

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John Adams

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Later, Hamilton also attempted to convince electors to choose Charles Pinckney over this president

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John Adams

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The Treaty of Mortefontaine was signed under this man’s government, and he levied the Direct Tax to finance six naval frigates, which spurred Fries’ Rebellion.

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John Adams

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After this man annulled a Model Treaty that he earlier created, the Quasi War ensued.

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John Adams

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This man warned against the creation of an episcopate in America in his Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.

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John Adams

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In response to a request for advice from North Carolina, he wrote a pamphlet praising mixed constitutions, called Thoughts on Government.

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John Adams

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He received a letter asking him to “willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.”

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John Adams

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This Unitarian seconded a motion by Richard Henry Lee at the Second Continental Congress to force the first vote on declaring independence.

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John Adams

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During his tenure as ambassador to the Dutch Republic, this man was able to obtain a loan for 5 million guilder, and on another occasion he participated in the capture of the Martha.

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John Adams

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This man wrote that “the foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people” in a letter to George Wythe.

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John Adams

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44
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As part of his efforts to expand the navy, he commissioned the USS Constitution

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John Adams

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This president ratified a tax passed by Congress that levied a direct tax on houses, lands, and slaves, but one veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion got angry and led an uprising.

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John Adams

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In “My Head, My Heart,” this person wrote about meeting Maria Cosway.

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Thomas Jefferson

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The first US battle on foreign soil, the Battle of Derna, occurred under this president during the Barbary War.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This president sent James Monroe to negotiate a treaty with the French ambassador Nemours.

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Thomas Jefferson

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During this man’s Presidency, the captured USS Philadelphia was set on fire by Stephen Decatur.

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Thomas Jefferson

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A political cartoon depicts an act signed by this President as a turtle who bites a man shouting at the “cursed Ograbme;”

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man composed The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by cutting and pasting the non-supernatural parts of the New Testament.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man rejected the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty in the events leading up to the Chesapeake-Leopard affair.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This president’s conflict with the Karamanli dynasty was ended by the Treaty of Tripoli.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man wrote that Senators should be 30 years old and a citizen for 9 years in his A Manual of Parliamentary Practice.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This author of A Summary View of the Rights of British America was tutored by George Wythe in law.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man wrote a dialogue between his “head” and his “heart” in a letter to Maria Cosway.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man appointed Albert Gallatin as his Secretary of the Treasury, and while in office, this man signed into law a bill that officially banned the importation of slaves.

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Thomas Jefferson

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During his administration, Zebulon Pike was dispatched to explore the source of the Red River, and this man authorized the creation of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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Thomas Jefferson

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This man outlined a “majority of the whole” in a work arguing for a larger republic.

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James Madison

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This man wrote, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition” in an essay that claims, “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

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James Madison

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An essay by this man repeatedly invokes “factions.”

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James Madison

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This politician and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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James Madison

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As Secretary of State, this politician withheld the signed commissions of several last-minute appointees called the “Midnight Judges.”

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James Madison

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As his last act in one office, this man vetoed the Bonus Bill.

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James Madison

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This Princeton grad and owner of Paul Jennings helped write the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and staunchly opposed Macon’s Bill Number 2.

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James Madison

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In an earlier essay, this man compared getting rid of liberty to getting rid of air, when cautioning about efforts to abolish factions.

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James Madison

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This man argued that the “mischiefs” of a problem could be solved by either “removing its causes” or “controlling its effects.”

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James Madison

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One of this man’s propositions was altered by John Rutledge in the Committee of Detail.

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James Madison

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Senator William Giles opposed this man’s appointment of Albert Gallatin as Secretary of State.

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James Madison

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This man kept James Wilkinson as the governor of the Louisiana Territory despite his incompetence.

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James Madison

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This man argued for a “Necessary and Proper Clause” and defended the Supremacy Clause in Federalist Paper #44.

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James Madison

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This President ordered Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw land to be protected from settlers, though his general Andrew Jackson ignored that order.

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James Madison

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This owner of Paul Jennings was in office when his countrymen destroyed the ship Guerriere

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James Madison

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He retained his predecessor’s active Treasury secretary Albert Gallatin, and argued in one writing that “extend[ing] the sphere” of a country’s size protects liberty from harmful “factions.”

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James Madison

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This man appointed Gabriel Duvall to the Supreme Court as well as the man who wrote Commentaries on the Constitution, Joseph Story.

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James Madison

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This man used the name Helvidius to clash with Pacificus when debating the Proclamation of Neutrality.

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James Madison

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One article by this man predicted that a “proportion of fit characters” would arise and warned that property inequity would breed factionalism.

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James Madison

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His determined opponents included the Blue Lights and the Essex Junto.

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James Madison

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After two months in his highest office, he signed Macon’s Bill Number 2 to replace the Non-Intercourse Act.

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James Madison

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This future president negotiated the release of Thomas Paine from French prison and traveled with Robert Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

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James Monroe

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This president’s defeat of Rufus King led to the end of the First Party System due to the collapse of a rival party.

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James Monroe

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During this president’s tenure, the Adams-Onís treaty acquired Florida and the Missouri Compromise was signed.

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James Monroe

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The Roosevelt Corollary expanded a policy named for this president.

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James Monroe

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In his book A View of the Conduct of the Executive, this man defended his actions as Minister to France.

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James Monroe

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During this man’s presidency, overspeculation on frontier lands caused widespread foreclosures and a financial panic.

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James Monroe

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A treaty signed during this man’s presidency set one border at the Red River.

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James Monroe

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William Pinkney and this man failed to negotiate a renewal of Jay’s Treaty, and he helped Robert Livingston negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

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James Monroe

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as governor of his state, he called out the militia to suppress a slave rebellion led by Gabriel Prosser.

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James Monroe

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At the Battle of Trenton, this man severed an artery and was saved by volunteer doctor John Riker.

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James Monroe

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Earlier, this man dropped out of William and Mary and assisted Patriots in seizing weapon stores in Williamsburg in 1775.

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James Monroe

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This man was effectively both Secretary of State and Secretary of War after John Armstrong was fired after the burning of Washington.

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James Monroe

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This president’s only Supreme Court nominee was former Secretary of the Navy Smith Thompson.

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James Monroe

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In 1796, this man was recalled from his post as Ambassador to France because he hadn’t defended Jay’s Treaty vigorously enough for Washington’s Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering.

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James Monroe

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Nominated for the presidency in 1808 by a faction of the Tertium Quids of the Democratic-Republican party, this man only garnered votes in Virginia, which he had governed from 1799-1802.

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James Monroe

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This man served in the Continental Congress after studying law under Thomas Jefferson.

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James Monroe

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This man proposed a plan for the “general arrangement of the militia” which would have instituted military service for all males and created three corps divided by age.

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Henry Knox

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During the Revolutionary War, he directed the transfer of the arsenal captured at Fort Ticonderoga to Washington’s camp.

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Henry Knox

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In 1785, he succeeded Benjamin Lincoln in a position which put him in charge of Indian affairs

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Henry Knox

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this politician from Maine who was the first Secretary of War.

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Henry Knox

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100
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This man wrote a series of Letters on Silesia to his brother Thomas Boylston.

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John Quincy Adams

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This man was the only senator from his party to vote for the Louisiana Purchase, earning him a Profile in Courage.

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John Quincy Adams

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102
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With Roger Sherman Baldwin, this man argued for a group of Mende tribesmen led by Joseph Cinqué in the case U.S. v. The Amistad.

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John Quincy Adams

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In the final years of his life, this ex-president was the primary driving force behind the formation of the Smithsonian Institute and spoke against the Mexican-American War.

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John Quincy Adams

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This president enacted the first of two laws that the South Carolina legislature declared unconstitutional, sparking his successor’s nullification crisis.

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John Quincy Adams

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This president chose Richard Rush as his running mate during his campaign for re-election.

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John Quincy Adams

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106
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This president died while giving a speech in Congress opposing a proposal to honor Mexican-American veterans.

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John Quincy Adams

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107
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This politician’s son George Washington drowned in the Long Island Sound after possibly jumping off the Benjamin Franklin.

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John Quincy Adams

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108
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Due to his constant petitions against slavery, this man was the chief target of an 1836 gag rule which was eventually repealed in 1844.

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John Quincy Adams

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During one election, this man’s opponent accused him of providing prostitutes to the Czar while he served as Ambassador to Russia.

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John Quincy Adams

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This man is the only former president to become a member of the House of Representatives.

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John Quincy Adams

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This man’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory explains that liberty is necessary for the art of oration to survive.

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John Quincy Adams

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This President started the Chesapeake and Ohio Canals among others, and he also extended the Cumberland Road.

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John Quincy Adams

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This politician died shortly after giving a speech against granting swords to generals of the Mexican-American War.

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John Quincy Adams

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This man brought a petition to the House floor from twenty Washington D.C. slaves seeking freedom, part of his campaign against the gag rule.

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John Quincy Adams

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In exchange for an electoral vote from Louisiana, this man appointed James Brown as minister to France.

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John Quincy Adams

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William H. Crawford refused this president’s invitation to continue in his post as Secretary of the Treasury, so this president appointed Richard Rush instead.

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John Quincy Adams

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In 1834, this man ran for governor of his home state on the Anti Masonic ticket but lost to John Davis.

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John Quincy Adams

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This president appointed Robert Trimble to the Supreme Court, and was ousted as incumbent in an election that saw his opponent’s wife Rachel accused of bigamy.

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John Quincy Adams

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This man published the 11 essays in the collection “Letters of Publicola” which were critical of Paine’s Rights of Man

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John Quincy Adams

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He was denied re-appointment to the Senate after supporting Jefferson’s economic program and becoming the only New England Federalist to vote in favor of the Louisiana Purchase.

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John Quincy Adams

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Between appointments as diplomatic representative to Russia and Britain, he led the American side at Ghent.

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John Quincy Adams

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This general provoked outcry from the British government after capturing and executing Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister.

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Andrew Jackson

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This general forced the cession of 23 million acres of land in a treaty signed at a fort named for him.

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Andrew Jackson

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This general ended the Creek War by decisively defeating the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

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Andrew Jackson

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The Scott massacre prompted an invasion led by this man, during which he executed two British citizens

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Andrew Jackson

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He married Rachel Donelson before her divorce was final, and an assassination attempt on him failed after both of Richard Lawrence’s pistols misfired.

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Andrew Jackson

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“Hard Times” tokens were first minted by private banks during this leader’s tenure.

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Andrew Jackson

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This President ordered his Secretary of the Treasury, Levi Woodbury, to pass an act that forced the purchasing of public lands to be made with hard currency; that act was called the Specie Circular.

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Andrew Jackson

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In one song, soldiers led by this man made enemies “run through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.”

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Andrew Jackson

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130
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At his namesake fort, this man took William Weatherford’s surrender.

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Andrew Jackson

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The Age of this politician titles a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Arthur Schlesinger.

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Andrew Jackson

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He’s not Thomas Jefferson, but this president invited 10,000 ordinary people into the White House to eat a giant piece of cheese.

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Andrew Jackson

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This president’s enemies distributed the Coffin Handbills and spread rumors that his wife, Rachel, was a bigamist.

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Andrew Jackson

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This man was permanently scarred as a child soldier for refusing to clean the boots of a British officer.

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Andrew Jackson

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On constitutional grounds, he vetoed a bill to construct a road to Maysville, Kentucky.

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Andrew Jackson

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A fight over the constitutionality of two tariffs led this man to have a “Force Bill” passed.

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Andrew Jackson

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This general sided with a “white stick” faction against the “red stick” faction in a war that was ended by the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

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Andrew Jackson

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A cartoon shows this president fighting a green hydra, fulfilling his promise to destroy an institution he said “is trying to kill me.”

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Andrew Jackson

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This man, the only president to pay off the national debt,

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Andrew Jackson

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In spite of John Ross’ opposition, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot accepted this leader’s policies in the Treaty of New Echota.

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Andrew Jackson

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John Quincy Adams protected this man from censure after he ordered an invasion without authorization

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Andrew Jackson

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This man earned the nickname “King Mob” after he opened a government building to the general public.

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Andrew Jackson

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This president’s first term of office began the Second Party System, which saw the growth of party loyalty.

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Andrew Jackson

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This president’s predecessor passed the highest tariff in US history, the Tariff of Abominations, which resulted in this president’s vice president arguing for the right of states to nullify federal laws.

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Andrew Jackson

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This man provided ships for another man to start a colony on the Red River and later testified on behalf of that man, Aaron Burr.

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Andrew Jackson

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This man led the Bucktails, a group of Senators who opposed George Clinton.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s vice president claimed that he killed Tecumseh and was Richard Mentor Johnson.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man ran for president in 1848 as the Free Soil candidate.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man argued for abolitionism in the “Barnburner Manifesto.”

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s daughter-in-law was the youngest ever White House hostess.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s “regal splendor” was attacked in Charles Ogle’s Gold Spoon Oration.

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Martin Van Buren

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Supporters of this politician formed the OK club using the abbreviation of one of his nicknames.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s Vice-President, Richard Mentor

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Martin Van Buren

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This man founded the Albany Regency, which was an early political machine in the state of New York, and he was the only President whose first language was not English.

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Martin Van Buren

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James K. Polk offered this man the ambassadorship to London after unexpectedly defeating him for the Democratic nomination.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s presidency witnessed a conflict known as the Battle of Caribou on the Maine-New Brunswick border.

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Martin Van Buren

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One opponent of this man accused him of building hills in the shape of “an Amazon’s bosom.”

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Martin Van Buren

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He suffered a public relations blow when Kentucky Congressman Landaff Andrews offered to take a dining implement home.

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Martin Van Buren

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During this man’s presidency, Allan McNab and Alexander McLeod destroyed the Caroline.

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Martin Van Buren

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Due to this man’s economic policies, his entire party was dubbed the “Locofocos”.

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Martin Van Buren

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This president was elected over his eventual successor and Hugh L. White, two candidates put forth by the same party in different parts of the country.

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Martin Van Buren

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This man’s support for William H. Crawford’s candidacy drew him his first electoral vote, from Georgia for the vice presidency.

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Martin Van Buren

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163
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E.C. Booz’s distinctive whiskey bottles in support of this candidate are the source for the term “booze.”

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William henry harrison

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Supporters of this candidate pushing leather and tin spheres to campaign stops originated the phrase “keep the ball rolling.”

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William henry harrison

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This man sent Caleb Cushing to negotiate the Treaty of Wanghia.

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John Tyler

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166
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wo members of this man’s cabinet were killed, while he escaped injury, when the Peacemaker gun exploded aboard the USS Princeton.

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John Tyler

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This man served as Vice President under a man known as the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” candidate.

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John Tyler

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The Thornton Affair started a conflict during this man’s presidency.

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James Polk

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In a previous position, this man enforced the “gag rule” on petitions regarding slavery.

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James Polk

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This president reestablished the Independent Treasury System and lowered import duties via the Walker Tariff.

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James Polk

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This man is the only president to fulfill all of his campaign agenda.

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James Polk

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This president’s Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft, was responsible for founding the Naval Academy.

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James Polk

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The Spot Resolutions demanded that this president identify the exact location where blood was spilled in American soil.

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James Polk

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During the negotiation of a peace treaty, Nicholas Trist ignored this president’s attempt to recall him.

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James Polk

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This president defeated Henry Clay using the slogan “Fifty-four forty or fight!”

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James Polk

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This man’s political opponents published a fake travelogue titled Roorback’s Tour through the Southern and Western States that claimed he branded his initials on the 40 slaves he owned.

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James Polk

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As President, he created the Department of the Interior

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James Polk

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His political opponents asked “Who is [this man]” after he outmaneuvered Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren to gain the nomination at the 1844 Democratic Convention.

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James Polk

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This man passed a law instituting the practice of storing imported goods in warehouses, pending payment of duties.

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James Polk

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This man notably dispatched John Slidell to another country

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James Polk

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He restored Van Buren’s independent subtreasuries in the Independent Treasury Act

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James Polk

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This president settled a Nicaraguan canal dispute with the British in the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.

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Zachary Taylor

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This president’s Secretary of War, George Crawford, resigned after his implication in the Galphin Affair.

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Zachary Taylor

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Prior to his presidency, this man led a volunteer army against a far larger force led by Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista.

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Zachary Taylor

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This man relieved the Siege of Fort Texas with a victory at the Battle of Palo Alto, and earlier had defeated the Seminole Indians at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.

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Zachary Taylor

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This man employed the “Flying Artillery” tactic to lead his troops to victory at the Battle of Palo Alto

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Zachary Taylor

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This man ran as a Whig and defeated Lewis Cass and Martin van Buren in the 1848 presidential election.

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Zachary Taylor

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180
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This president’s secretary of State wrote a letter to Austria saying “The house of Hapsburg are but as a patch on the earth’s surface.”

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Millard Fillmore

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Shortly after that, this president met with Lajos Kossuth , the exiled leader of Hungary.

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Millard Fillmore

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This president’s second secretary of State was Edward Everett, who replaced Daniel Webster.

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Millard Fillmore

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This person is the only president to both become president due to his predecessor’s death and to fire his predecessor’s entire cabinet.

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Millard Fillmore

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Guy S. Hopkins wrote a hoax letter suggesting this person was a part of a plan to overthrow the government.

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Franklin Pierce

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Opponents of this person ridiculed his alcoholism and referred to him as the “hero of many a well-fought bottle.”

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Franklin Pierce

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Under the guidance of State Secretary William Marcy, this politician’s administration published a document pushing for the U.S. annexation of Cuba, the Ostend Manifesto.

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Franklin Pierce

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This man’s vice president is the only one to have been sworn in on foreign soil

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Franklin Pierce

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he was severely injured after his horse fell on his leg during the Battle of Contreras.

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Franklin Pierce

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Two weeks before this president’s inauguration, his oldest surviving son died in a train accident

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Franklin Pierce

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In his lone election, this man ran with William Rufus King as his running mate and defeated his commanding officer from the Mexican-American War, Winfield Scott.

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Franklin Pierce

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This president attended the trial and shook the hand of congressman Daniel Sickles, who was tried with killing Francis Scott Key’s great-nephew for having an affair with his wife.

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James Buchanan

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During this politician’s campaign, he was criticized for saying that ten cents a day was enough for a worker.

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James Buchanan

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Contemporaries like Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown implied that this man and William R. King were in a same-sex relationship, as they spent a decade as roommates.

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James Buchanan

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His attempts to replace Brigham Young as Governor of the Utah Territory became known as his namesake Blunder.

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James Buchanan

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Economic troubles during his presidency were sparked by the wreck of a ship carrying bullion, the Central America.

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James Buchanan

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This president’s party split during its next convention, leading to his vice president, John C. Breckinridge, being nominated along with Steven Douglas.

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James Buchanan

196
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This man’s “Lost Speech” was supposedly so good that reporters put their pencils down to listen.

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Abraham Lincoln

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In another speech, this man notes that, unlike his addressees, he has sworn an oath to protect the Constitution, and that a “momentous issue” lies in their hands.

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Abraham Lincoln

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In one political cartoon, this politician’s head is held by a rival candidate and is said to be a “fellow of infinite jest” in an imitation of Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick.

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Abraham Lincoln

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One of this man’s campaign slogans originated the phrase “Don’t Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream.”

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Abraham Lincoln

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During his second run for president, this politician defeated the nominee of the “Peace Democrats.”

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Abraham Lincoln

201
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In his first speech in one post, this man repeated the line “I am a plebeian!”

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Andrew Johnson

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As a Senator representing Tennessee, he was the only member of Congress to remain upon Confederate secession.

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Andrew Johnson

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He gave speeches in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis as part of his failed “swing around the circle” which led to the election of more Radical Republicans.

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Andrew Johnson

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While in the Senate, he pushed for the passage of the Homestead Act, and in 1862 he was made brigadier general of occupied Tennessee.

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Andrew Johnson

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In 1843, this man became the first Democrat to be elected to the House of Representatives from his district in Tennessee.

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Andrew Johnson

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According to Eric Foner, this man opposed “America’s Unfinished Revolution.”

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Andrew Johnson

204
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He served five months of a second Senate term before dying, and first term ended with his appointment as governor of Tennessee.

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Andrew Johnson

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He drank a great deal of whiskey before his inauguration to one office, resulting in a bizarre speech in which he repeatedly exclaimed “I’m a plebeian!”

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Andrew Johnson

206
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He is buried under a willow tree which he planted from a cutting taken at the tomb of Napoleon.

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Andrew Johnson

207
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A scandal during this man’s presidency was exposed after Henry McComb leaked damaging letters to The Sun.

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Grant

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James Frisk and Jay Gould’s attempted cornering of the gold market led to a panic dubbed Black Friday during this man’s presidency.

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Grant

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Oakes Ames was involved in a scheme in this man’s presidency in which Ames undersold railroad construction shares.

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Grant

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In one incident during this man’s presidency, his Secretary of the Treasury hired John Sanborn to collect $427,000 in unpaid taxes.

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Grant

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This man’s Secretary of War, William Belknap, was discovered to have taken kickbacks from traders at Fort Sill.

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Grant

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Rufus Ingalls helped negotiate a failed plan by this president to annex the territory of Santo Domingo.

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Grant

213
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Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Bristow helped break one scandal during this man’s presidency, which led to the indictment of Orville Babcock

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Grant

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This president’s Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, gave federal grants to his own son.

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Grant

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During his presidency, Bradley Barrow used a $40,000 bribe to stop an inquiry into postal fraud.

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Grant

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This man signed the two Force Acts prohibiting the use of terror to prevent people from voting.

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Grant

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This man signed the Fourth Coinage act which embraced the gold standard and led to the founding of the Greenback Party.

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Grant

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During this man’s presidency, a border west of the San Juan Islands was set via the Treaty of Washington, by which his secretary of state Hamilton Fish resolved the Alabama claims.

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Grant

219
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He also revised the Naturalization Act of 1790 to include African-born babies

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Grant

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He appointed the Seneca Indian Ely S. Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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Grant

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This president’s veto of the Inflation Bill led to a return to the gold standard the next year in the Specie Resumption Act.

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Grant

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This official appointed an ambassador to England who lent his name to the Emma silver mine.

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Grant

223
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This president negotiated an agreement that included the never-fulfilled “Scott Plan” to build railroads.

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Hayes

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William Archibald Dunning, who praised an agreement made by this president, names a school that viewed a period ended under this president a failure.

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Hayes

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This Ohio-born president believed in a government that treated people equally based on merit as shown by his appointment of reformer Carl Schurz to Secretary of the Interior.

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Hayes

226
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This president advocated for the gold standard and vetoed the Bland-Allison Act.

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Hayes

227
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This man unsuccessfully attempted to place his war buddy Stanley Matthews on the Supreme Court, although his successor would later succeed in doing so.

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Hayes

228
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The Battle of the Viaduct took place during this man’s presidency as part of a larger strike organized by the Workingmen’s Party, the Great Railroad Strike.

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Hayes

229
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This man banned (*) alcohol from the White House due to the influence of his wife, nicknamed “Lemonade Lucy.”

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Hayes

230
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During his lame-duck period, he appointed Nathan Goff, Jr., as Secretary of the Navy to replace Richard Wigginton Thompson, and other members of his cabinet included Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz and Attorney General Carl Devens.

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Hayes

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This president gave his only campaign speech to placate a rival faction at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

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Garfield

232
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This president received a personal request by one man to be appointed to a “Paris consulship”, which this president rebuffed.

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Garfield

233
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The Morey Letter painted this president as a supporter of Chinese immigration.

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Garfield

234
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This president attacked his opponent for claiming that tariffs were a “local issue” to win an election against Winfield Scott Hancock.

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Garfield

235
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This president ran alongside a corrupt Collector of the Port of New York at the behest of Roscoe Conkling.

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Garfield

236
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This man commanded the victorious side at the Battle of Middle Creek, and he published a proof of the Pythagorean theorem while in Congress.

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Garfield

237
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This politician is the only sitting member of the House of Representatives to be elected president

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Garfield

238
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his administration faced the Star Route scandal.

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Garfield

239
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William Henry Hunt was appointed Secretary of the Navy by this president, who called for the abandonment of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.

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Garfield

240
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Morrison Waite was made Chief Justice under this president, who appointed William Robertson as Collector of the Port of New York.

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Garfield

241
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During an earlier man’s presidency, this man refused ten shares offered by Oakes Ames during the Credit Mobilier Scandal.

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Garfield

242
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This politician detested porridge so much that he joked that the then-imprisoned and starving Sitting Bull should be fed his oatmeal as it was a worse fate.

A

Garfield

243
Q

During one event, this man was attacked by a man who had been passed over as consul to Paris by Secretary of State James G. Blaine.

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Garfield

244
Q

This man was treated by Dr. Willard Bliss who used cabinet members’ wives instead of trained nurses.

A

Garfield

245
Q

During one election, this president’s opposition forged a letter from him to a Massachusetts union supposedly voicing his support for Chinese immigration.

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Garfield

246
Q

This president ordered the investigation of the Star Route Frauds

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Garfield

247
Q

This man’s own rags-to-riches story from the position of canal boy was the subject of a Horatio Alger work, which was written for one of his campaigns for political office.

A

Garfield

248
Q

After being elected to the Senate, a compromise between the Stalwarts and Half-breeds secured him the Republican presidential nomination in 1880.

A

Garfield

248
Q

During his Civil War service in the Army of the Cumberland at Shiloh and Chickamauga, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio.

A

Garfield

249
Q

This man won popular support as mayor of Buffalo after he vetoed a street cleaning bill that would have selected a higher bidder due to political connections

A

Cleveland

250
Q

In reference to his illegitimate child, opponents of this politician answered the chant “Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa” with “Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”

A

Cleveland

251
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This president, a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, failed to reverse the national depression caused by the Panic of 1893

A

Cleveland

252
Q

The Wilson-Gorman Tariff, passed during this man’s presidency, enacted the first-ever peacetime income tax.

A

Cleveland

253
Q

The Dawes Severalty Act removed land rights from Indian tribes under this man.

A

Cleveland

253
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This man was attacked in the “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” speech, which swung Catholic voters to his side

A

Cleveland

254
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he was helped by the support of reformist, anti-corruption “Mugwumps.”

A

Cleveland

255
Q

One of this person’s campaigns was opposed by W.W. Dudley, who divided bribe-friendly voters in Indiana into “blocks of five”.

A

Cleveland

256
Q

This president used one of his many vetoes on the Texas Seed Bill, earning him the nickname “His Obstinacy”

A

Cleveland

257
Q

This man utilized the Schomburgk Line to quell a crisis in Venezuela, and he controversially opposed a train fare discount when governor of his home state.

A

Cleveland

258
Q

In the White House, this man refused to annex Hawaii

A

Cleveland

259
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This man withdrew the Frelinghuysen-Zavala Treaty from the Senate and campaigned against a federal elections bill he termed the “Force Bill”

A

Cleveland

260
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His first Vice President, Thomas Hendricks, died, leading to a revision of the Presidential Succession Act.

A

Cleveland

260
Q

The Klondike Gold Rush ended a depression during this man’s second term, the Panic of 1893.

A

Cleveland

261
Q

He vetoed a bill providing grain to drought-stricken Texan farmers, and oversaw the act establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission.

A

Cleveland

262
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This man’s friend William Wade Dudley allegedly tried to bribe voters in the “Blocks of Five” scandal.

A

Benjamin Harrison

263
Q

His presidency saw the arrival of the Statue of Liberty, and he sent federal troops to crush the Pullman Strike.

A

Cleveland

264
Q

During this man’s presidency, the stabbing of two American sailors in Chile resulted in the Baltimore Crisis.

A

Benjamin Harrison

265
Q

This president signed a bill providing pensions to Civil War veterans called the Dependent and Disability Pension Act.

A

Benjamin Harrison

266
Q

This president worked with the “Billion Dollar Congress” to pass the McKinley Tariff.

A

Benjamin Harrison

267
Q

This president endorsed the Federal Elections Bill to help blacks in the South vote, though it was filibustered by Congress.

A

Benjamin Harrison

268
Q

Under this man’s administration, John Sherman’s namesake Silver Purchase Act and Antitrust Act were both signed into law

A

Benjamin Harrison

269
Q

Supporters of this president had circulated a document showing British support for his opponent called the Murchison Letter.

A

Benjamin Harrison

270
Q

Industrialists supporting this president’s campaign were rewarded with the protectionist McKinley Tariff, and he signed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act into law

A

Benjamin Harrison

271
Q

This politician’s foreign policy was mocked in a letter written by Dupuy De Lome.

A

William McKinley

272
Q

This president’s Secretary of War Russell Alger was heavily criticized for purchasing “embalmed beef” from Chicago meatpacking companies.

A

William McKinley

273
Q

Under this president, the Teller Amendment forbade the U.S. from annexing Cuba.

A

William McKinley

274
Q

This man lost an election for Speaker of the House to the man who combated the “disappearing quorum,” Thomas Reed.

A

William McKinley

275
Q

The Wilson-Gorman Tariff replaced a fifty percent duty on imports that he framed as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

A

William McKinley

276
Q

He twice defeated the founder of The Commoner, and fellow Ohio native Mark Hanna aided his “front porch” campaign.

A

William McKinley

277
Q

A political cartoon depicts this man as a “straddle-bug”, literally straddling the currency question.

A

William McKinley

278
Q

During this man’s presidency, Congress passed the Teller Amendment in response to his declaration of war

A

William McKinley

279
Q

This man quietly had black Georgia postmaster Isaac Loften transferred after Loften was almost lynched.

A

William McKinley

280
Q

A few years after he lost the House speakership to Thomas Reed, his need to repay a debt almost derailed his governorship of Ohio.

A

William McKinley

281
Q

In one political cartoon, this man was depicted as a waiter offering a variety of imperialist dishes to Uncle Sam.

A

William McKinley

282
Q

His first vice-president, Garret Hobart, died in office, leaving a vacancy unfilled until the next election.

A

William McKinley

283
Q

Agreeing with John Burroughs, this author criticized writers of realistic animal fiction in the article “Nature Fakers.”

A

Theodore Roosevelt

284
Q

This man’s family home was Sagamore Hill on Long Island.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

285
Q

A copy of this man’s speech “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual” prevented a bullet shot by John Schrank from killing him.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

286
Q

This man’s first Secretary of State may have written the Bixby letter while he was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

287
Q

This man once joked that his predecessor had the backbone of “a chocolate eclair,”

A

Theodore Roosevelt

288
Q

he strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission with the Elkins and Hepburn Acts.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

289
Q

This man prevented Germany from gaining a foothold in Morocco at the Algeciras Conference

A

Theodore Roosevelt

290
Q

he was in office during the British bombarding of Venezuelan forts.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

291
Q

he helped make a secret treaty giving Japan permission to invade Korea.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

292
Q

He dispatched several warships to Morocco after the bandit Raisuli kidnapped the Greek-American Ion Perdicaris.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

293
Q

This politician railed against the “doctrine of ignoble ease” in a speech titled “The Strenuous Life.”

A

Theodore Roosevelt

293
Q

This author’s books include The Naval War of 1812 and a four-volume history of American westward expansion, The Winning of the West.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

294
Q

As president, his foreign policy initiatives included sending out the Great White Fleet and dispatching naval forces to support an independence movement against Colombia.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

295
Q

His vice president was Charles Fairbanks

A

Theodore Roosevelt

296
Q

This man ordered a number of black soldiers dishonorably discharged in the aftermath of the Brownsville Affair.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

297
Q

This president strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission by passing a law fining railroads offering rebates, the Elkins Act.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

298
Q

The Gentlemen’s Agreement was made with Japan during the presidency of this man, and the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed during his administration.

A

Theodore Roosevelt

299
Q

This man created controversy when he invited Booker T. Washington to the White House

A

Theodore Roosevelt

300
Q

With Prime Minister Katsura Taro, this man names an agreement which established de jure Japanese hegemony over Korea and protection of U.S. control of Philippines.

A

Taft

301
Q

As Chief Justice, this politician oversaw the case McGrain v. Daugherty which persecuted those involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

A

Taft

302
Q

With Philander Knox, this President established the policy of “Dollar Diplomacy” with Latin America

A

Taft

303
Q

This man made peace with General Enrique Castillo during his time as provisional governor of Cuba

A

Taft

304
Q

This man, who succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of War, lost his final election campaign after his predecessor ran for the Progressive Party.

A

Taft

305
Q

This man held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect Chinese-American Martha Lum’s right to attend school in Mississippi, and he overturned the Futures Trading Act in Hill v. Wallace

A

Taft

306
Q

This man was opposed by the National Progressive Republican League led by Robert LaFollette, and his administration passed the Payne–Aldrich Tariff.

A

Taft

307
Q

Jeffrey Tulis argued that this president created the modern “rhetorical presidency” by re-popularizing giving the State of the Union address directly to Congress.

A

Woodrow Wilson

308
Q

This president stressed that “the world must be made safe for democracy” in one speech.

A

Woodrow Wilson

309
Q

During this man’s presidency, the Polar Bear Expedition was ordered to Arkhangelsk.

A

Woodrow Wilson

310
Q

The Arabic and Sussex pledges were issued to appease this president, who passed the Keating-Owen Act and the Underwood Tariff.

A

Woodrow Wilson

311
Q

Late in this man’s presidency, the Justice Department arrested and deported radicals in the Palmer raids.

A

Woodrow Wilson

312
Q

Joseph Tumulty served as private secretary to this man, who was advised in foreign affairs by “Colonel” House.

A

Woodrow Wilson

313
Q

This man refused to create Villard’s proposed National Race Commission.

A

Woodrow Wilson

314
Q

This first president to hold a PhD defeated Champ Clark to win the Democratic nomination and became the first Southern-born candidate to win a presidential election since the Civil War.

A

Woodrow Wilson

315
Q

He passed the Adamson Act to avoid a rail strike, and his Treasury secretary, William McAdoo, created twelve decentralized, regional banks

A

Woodrow Wilson

315
Q

One act that this man passed limited “tying” agreements and price discrimination, so it was called “labor’s charter of freedom”.

A

Woodrow Wilson

316
Q

This man pushed for a piece of legislation which fixed an eight-hour work day for trainmen in order to prevent a strike, and he also pushed for a piece of legislation struck down by Hammer v. Dagenhart.

A

Woodrow Wilson

316
Q

In addition to advocating the Adamson Act and the Keating-Owen Act, this president signed the Glass-Owen Act, creating the Federal Reserve.

A

Woodrow Wilson

317
Q

Legislation passed during this man’s presidency included the Keating-Owen Act to limit child labor and the Underwood-Simmons Act to lower tariff rates, both of which were part of this man’s idea of a “New Freedom.”

A

Woodrow Wilson

318
Q

This man wrote that the presidency “will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it” in his work Constitutional Government in the United States.

A

Woodrow Wilson

319
Q

This man’s election bid was managed by his friend William McCombs, and during the National Convention in which he was nominated, he was supported by William Jennings Bryan.

A

Woodrow Wilson

320
Q

This man supported bills such as the Underwood Tariff, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and the Federal Reserve Act.

A

Woodrow Wilson

321
Q

He nominated both Robert Lansing and William Jennings Bryan to the post of Secretary of State

A

Woodrow Wilson

322
Q

This president signed the Thomson-Urrutia Treaty, which granted a $25 million settlement to Colombia.

A

Harding

323
Q

During this president’s administration, Charles R. Forbes inflated the cost of constructing hospitals in order to defraud the Veterans’ Bureau.

A

Harding

324
Q

This president’s cabinet included Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who instituted heavy tax cuts.

A

Harding

325
Q

This president’s campaign focused on a “return to normalcy”.

A

Harding

326
Q

This man gave the “The Republic must awaken” speech and popularized the word “bloviate.”

A

Harding

327
Q

This man’s Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, led the Washington Naval Conference.

A

Harding

327
Q

This man appointed American Relief Administration director Herbert Hoover, to be his Secretary of Commerce.

A

Harding

328
Q

This president appointed Harry Daugherty as Attorney General.

A

Harding

329
Q

This President sent federal troops to stop striking coal miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain.

A

Harding

330
Q

He supported the anti-lynching Dyer bill, but he had to force the resignation of the fraudulent Director of the Veterans’ Bureau, Charles R. Forbes.

A

Harding

331
Q

Early in this man’s administration, a flood largely destroyed the city of Pueblo, Colorado.

A

Harding

332
Q

This president personally presented a capsule of radium worth one hundred thousand dollars to Marie Curie.

A

Harding

333
Q

During his administration, the Nine Power Treaty was signed, reaffirming the earlier Open Door Policy for China.

A

Harding

333
Q

H.L. Mencken said that this man’s grammar was “so bad that a kind of grandeur creeps into it.”

A

Harding

334
Q

He was the editor of the Marion Daily Star and married the daughter of Democratic rival Amos Kling, who overlooked his infidelity with Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton.

A

Harding

334
Q

This president pardoned a raccoon sent to be eaten and kept it as a pet in the White House.

A

Calvin Coolidge

335
Q

This president repeatedly vetoed the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act against the wishes of his Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace.

A

Calvin Coolidge

335
Q

He sparked controversy when he refused to visit the victims of the Great Mississippi Flood

A

Calvin Coolidge

336
Q

he became president after defeating the first Democratic nominee from a slave state since the Civil War, John Davis.

A

Calvin Coolidge

337
Q

This president signed into law the Snyder Act, which granted full citizenship to Native Americans.

A

Calvin Coolidge

338
Q

This man won an election where he defeated the third-party (*) Progressive candidate Robert La Follette as well as John W. Davis.

A

Calvin Coolidge

339
Q

This leader arbitrated the Bread and Roses strike and backed the actions of Edwin Curtis during one event.

A

Calvin Coolidge

340
Q

led to his presidential inauguration being the first one broadcast live on radio.

A

Calvin Coolidge

341
Q

This man vetoed a farmer relief bill proposing the government buy surplus production for later sale, though he supported the Curtis-Crisp Act.

A

Calvin Coolidge

342
Q

the Washington Naval Treaty was ratified during his term, and during this man’s presidency the United States ratified an agreement outlawing warfare “as an instrument of national policy,” the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

A

Calvin Coolidge

342
Q

Before becoming president, he defeated Richard H. Long in a gubernatorial election, and restored Edwin Curtis to office after clashing with Mayor Andrew Peters during the Boston Police Strike.

A

Calvin Coolidge

343
Q

George H. Nash wrote a biography of this president, who vetoed a Nebraska senator’s Muscle Shoals Bill.

A

Herbert Hoover

344
Q

This president served as the head of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

A

Herbert Hoover

345
Q

This president formulated the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend money to banks and insurance companies.

A

Herbert Hoover

345
Q

Toward the end of this man’s term, disgruntled veterans occupied the Anacostia Flats to demand payment of their bonus certificates.

A

Herbert Hoover

346
Q

This man wrote that the German economy had “sunk to the lowest level in a hundred years” in a report requested by Harry Truman.

A

Herbert Hoover

347
Q

This man is credited with helping to avert a famine in the Soviet Union during his time as head of the American Relief Administration.

A

Herbert Hoover

348
Q

This man’s presidential campaign promised “a chicken in every pot.”

A

Herbert Hoover

349
Q

This president’s administration released a memorandum concerning the Monroe Doctrine that was written by his predecessor’s Undersecretary of State, J. Rueben Clark.

A

Herbert Hoover

350
Q

Harry Truman appointed this man to head a commission to reorganize the Executive Department.

A

Herbert Hoover

351
Q

A baby was among the dead after this president ordered a force led by Walter Waters to leave the Anacostia Flats

A

Herbert Hoover

352
Q

During this man’s time as the Secretary of Commerce, he ran the “Own Your Own Home” campaign which promoted single-family houses.

A

Herbert Hoover

353
Q

Some of this president’s domestic programs included the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

A

Herbert Hoover

354
Q

A speech by this politician told of people begging him “don’t frighten us by telling us the facts.”

A

FDR

355
Q

That speech by this politician posited the “spearhead of resistance to world conquest” as part of the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

A

FDR

355
Q

Under this president, the reporter Paul Comly French corroborated testimonies given during the McCormack–Dickstein Committee.

A

FDR

356
Q

An executive order signed by this president created the Fair Employment Practice Committee, which effectively desegregated part of the defense industry.

A

FDR

357
Q

In one document, these two leaders stated that their countries should “seek no [territorial] aggrandizement.”

A

FDR

358
Q

One of these two leaders was criticized for violating the Neutrality Act after purchasing from the other in the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement.

A

FDR

359
Q

This man was told “I’m glad it was me instead of you,” by accidental casualty Anton Cermak after an assassination attempt by Giusieppe Zangara.

A

FDR

360
Q

The Fifth Party System was created as a result of this president’s formation of a broad coalition of blue-collar workers, minorities, intellectuals, and white Southerners.

A

FDR

361
Q

At his son’s commencement at the University of Virginia, this president compared a foreign country’s declaration of war to backstabbing in his “stab-in-the-back” speech.

A

FDR

362
Q

A series of four Norman Rockwell paintings was inspired by this president’s speech describing the “Four Freedoms.”

A

FDR

363
Q

Among this president’s affairs included one with his wife’s secretary Lucy Mercer.

A

FDR

364
Q

Figures like Harry Hopkins were members of this man’s advisory committee the “Brain Trust,” and he delivered a record 307 Executive Orders.

A

FDR

365
Q

This man helped found the U.S. Naval Reserve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a position to which he was appointed by Woodrow Wilson.

A

FDR

365
Q

He was James M. Cox’s running mate in 1920, and eight years later he would succeed Al Smith as Governor of new York.

A

FDR

366
Q

Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds was one of the “Four Horsemen” who opposed this man

A

FDR

367
Q

This man called Alfred E. Smith “the Happy Warrior”.

A

FDR

368
Q

This man, in response to the “Four Horsemen” and “Black Monday,” called for the Judiciary Reorganization Bill, while his Executive Order 6201 led to the Gold Clause Cases.

A

FDR

369
Q

Due to exaggerated claims about his military achievements, this man was sometimes sarcastically called “Tail-Gunner.”

A

McCarthy

370
Q

Karl Mundt served in a position usually held by this man in a trial against him.

A

McCarthy

371
Q

This man succeeded Robert La Follette, Jr. in his highest ranking position

A

McCarthy

372
Q

The Tydings Committee was formed to investigate accusations this man made

A

McCarthy

373
Q

Yasuyo Yamasaki was killed at this battle, which prompted an evacuation from Kiska.

A

Battle of Attu

373
Q

A Seventh-Day Adventist named Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi served as a surgeon during this battle, as recollected in an extensive diary.

A

Battle of Attu

374
Q

Codenamed Operation Landcrab, this was the only land battle of World War Two that occurred in North America.

A

Battle of Attu

375
Q

During this battle, one officer failed to bring ammunition packs to help his side, contributing to their loss at this battle.

A

Battle of Little Bighorn

376
Q

Hundreds of troops at this battle ended up trapped at Minneconjou Ford after repeatedly attempting to cross a river.

A

Battle of Little Bighorn

377
Q

Recounts of this battle often feature the Lone Teepee, and leaders on one side were Frederick Benteen and Marcus Reno.

A

Battle of Little Bighorn

378
Q

Some villages paid a tax on food called the tasa to contribute to this industry.

A

Silver mining

379
Q

Pedro Romero de Terreros made his fortune in this industry in New Spain

A

Silver mining

380
Q

In the 17th century, Basques fought for control of this industry in the Vicuña War.

A

Silver mining

381
Q

One division of this organization was mockingly referred to as “Wisner’s Group of Weirdos”.

A

CIA

382
Q

The Family Jewels report documented some of this organization’s actions.

A

CIA

383
Q

Kermit Roosevelt was employed by this organization to arrange Operation Ajax, in which this organization helped to overthrow Mohammed Mossadegh.

A

CIA

384
Q

Diane Rehm once erroneously asked this man if he had dual citizenship.

A

Bernie Sanders

385
Q

The extension of the Bush Tax cuts led this man to filibuster for eight hours.

A

Bernie Sanders

386
Q

He gave a speech at Liberty University citing Matthew 7:12 and framing his support for family leave as “family values.”

A

Bernie Sanders

387
Q

During one election, this person used the Morgan-Ryan-Belmont resolution to prevent Speaker of the House Champ Clark from receiving the presidential nomination.

A

William Jennings Bryan

388
Q

Both Arthur Sewall and Thomas Watson were vice presidential nominees for this person in one election.

A

William Jennings Bryan

389
Q

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, this person resigned as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of state.

A

William Jennings Bryan

390
Q

Mark Hanna helped one opponent of this person run a successful “front porch” campaign from his home in Canton, Ohio.

A

William Jennings Bryan

391
Q

This person lost the 1912 presidential election to William Howard Taft.

A

William Jennings Bryan

392
Q

Workers of this resource engaged in the Battle of Orgreave, and the Colorado National Guard killed two dozen workers of this resource in the Ludlow massacre.

A

Coal

393
Q

This city was home to an intellectual debate club called the Junto, as documented in an “American life” by Walter Isaacson.

A

Philidelphia

393
Q

After murdering twenty-one Susquehannock in the Conestoga Massacre, the Paxton Boys marched to this city.

A

Philidelphia

394
Q

Bifocal glasses were invented in this city, which was taken after the Battle of Brandywine.

A

Philidelphia

395
Q

Jurisprudence arising out of this amendment established the only two ways to lose citizenshsip, and Lochner vs New York used this amendment to strike down a law setting maximum work hours.

A

Fourteenth Amendment

396
Q

One guarantee of this amendment is split into “procedural” and “substantive” types, and the phrase “fundamental rights” in this amendment has been interpreted to prevent state governments from depriving their citizens of protections offered in the Bill of Rights, a process known as incorporation.

A

Fourteenth Amendment

396
Q

On this man’s second voyage, he failed to replicate the route of Willem Barentsz’s last voyage when he did not pass at Novaya Zemlya.

A

Henry Hudson

397
Q

This man sailed on the Hopewell on an early expedition.

A

Henry Hudson

398
Q

This man was employed by the Muscovy Company.

A

Henry Hudson

399
Q

Eli Hart’s store of flour was attacked in the aftermath of this event after a fiery meeting of the Locofocos.

A

Panic of 1837

400
Q

Devaluation of paper currency occurred in this event due to the issuance of a presidential executive order that was favored by Thomas Hart Benton and the advocates of gold and silver.

A

Panic of 1837

401
Q

One policy employed by this institution caused construction workers to mail it wooden boards; that policy was Volcker disinflation.

A

Federal reserve

402
Q

The Federal Open Market Committee enacts this organization’s policy through open market operations.

A

Federal reserve

402
Q

This body, in addition to setting the discount window interest rate and reserve ratio

A

Federal reserve

403
Q

This city was the target of a Confederate arson attack on Evacuation Day in 1864.

A

NYC

403
Q

During the Civil War, the mayor of this city, Fernando Wood, suggested seceding to become the “Free City of Tri-Insula.”

A

NYC

404
Q

This president claimed that he would “never apologize for the United States of America” after the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian flight.

A

George H. W. Bush

404
Q

The police superintendent of this city survived more than 70 knife wounds during an event caused by anger over a $300 commutation fee.

A

NYC

405
Q

This court case was rebuked by a man who criticized the decision by saying “you seem to consider judges the ultimate arbiter of all constitutional questions.”

A

Marbury vs. Madison

405
Q

At the nominating convention for this president, a speech decrying the “prophets of doom” and declaring there was a “war… for the soul of America” was given by Pat Buchanan.

A

George H. W. Bush

406
Q

This case was decided a week before the related Stuart v. Laird, which focused on a law that would have led to the plaintiff of this case being named as Justice of the Peace.

A

Marbury vs. Madison

406
Q

This event was timed to coincide with Harry Hawk’s words, “you sockdologizing old mantrap.”

A

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

407
Q

After this event, Lewis Powell was caught hiding in the house of Mary Surratt.

A

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

407
Q

The perpetrator of this event hid in Zekiah Swamp before he went to the house of Richard Garrett, where he was later shot by Boston Corbett.

A

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

408
Q

This event interrupted a production of Our American Cousin, and its perpetrator may have said either “sic semper tyrannis” or “The South is avenged.”

A

assassination of Abraham Lincoln

409
Q

The S.S. Central America sank while carrying goods from this event.

A

California gold rush

409
Q

During this event, a group of Wintu Indians were killed in the Bridge Gulch Massacre.

A

California gold rush

410
Q

The newspaper editor Samuel Brannan was the first person to publicize this event with a headline about James Marshall and the American River.

A

California gold rush

410
Q

Rocker boxes were used to process large amounts of rocks and gravel during this event, during which Levi Strauss began selling dry goods and jeans.

A

California gold rush

411
Q

This author diverged with Benjamin Franklin in arguing for the importance of relationships for success in his lecture “Self-Made Men.”

A

Frederick Douglass

411
Q

In one work, this man described how a man named Bill refused to get involved in a fight between this man and Mr. Covey.

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