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U.S. Presidents Random Quiz #1

Use the hint to identify the appropriate president. The same president may be the answer to multiple questions. You will be given a different random selection of hints every time you take the quiz. Collect them all!

This quiz covers presidents #1 through #15.

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Last updated: January 23, 2024
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Posthumously promoted by Congress, in 1976, to General of the Armies.
George Washington
7th Senior Officer of the United States Army (1789-1797).
George Washington
As a lawyer, defended in court six British soldiers implicated in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
The 14th President of the United States (1853-1857).
Franklin Pierce
Established a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere and held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.
James Monroe
The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861).
James Buchanan
The 12th President of the United States (1849-1850).
Zachary Taylor
Expanded U.S. trade through reciprocity agreements with Denmark, Prussia and the Federal Republic of Central America and trade agreements with the Kingdom of Hawai’i and the Kingdom of Tahiti, but was frustrated by Britain’s 1825 ban on U.S. trade with the British West Indies.
John Quincy Adams
Louisiana (1812) and Indiana (1816) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
James Madison
The 4th President of the United States (1809-1817).
James Madison
Citizens of Maine clashed with citizens of New Brunswick in 1841 over a territorial dispute involving 12,000 square miles, resulting in this president sending his Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, to negotiate with British emissary Lord Ashburton.
John Tyler
Presided over the War of 1812 with Great Britain.
James Madison
The 9th President of the United States (1841).
William Henry Harrison
Lowered the national debt from $83 million to $57 million.
Thomas Jefferson
During his presidency, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford further stoked distrust between North and South, especially when it became apparent that the court’s decision had been leaked to the President in advance.
James Buchanan
His domestic agenda (later called the American System) was designed to unite disparate regional interests in the promotion of a thriving national economy, but was not well-received in Congress.
John Quincy Adams
During his presidency, tensions between Native Americans and Euro-Americans led to Tecumseh’s War, the Peoria War and the Creek War.
James Madison
Despite his misgivings, he signed the bill that created the Department of the Interior in 1849.
James K. Polk
The 5th President of the United States (1817-1825).
James Monroe
Texas (1845), Iowa (1846) and Wisconsin (1848) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
James K. Polk
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