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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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Successfully asked Congress for a declaration of war against the Barbary States, whose pirates threatened U.S. shipping in the Mediterranean.
Thomas Jefferson
The 5th President of the United States (1817-1825).
James Monroe
Died of gastroenteritis while still in office in 1850.
Zachary Taylor
The 8th President of the United States (1837-1841).
Martin Van Buren
The 11th President of the United States (1845-1849).
James K. Polk
During his presidency, tensions between Native Americans and Euro-Americans led to Tecumseh’s War, the Peoria War and the Creek War.
James Madison
Famously served at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
Andrew Jackson
Louisiana (1812) and Indiana (1816) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
James Madison
With Thomas Jefferson, co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party.
James Madison
Purchased Florida from Spain and set the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and Spanish territory.
John Quincy Adams
Arkansas (1836) and Michigan (1837) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
Andrew Jackson
Through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), ceded territory from Mexico that eventually became the states of California, Nevada and Utah; and parts of the states of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
James K. Polk
During his presidency, violence erupted on the border with Canada, when British subjects rose up in rebellion in 1837 and 1838.
Martin Van Buren
His daughter Maria Hester was the first president’s child to get married at the White House in 1820.
James Monroe
Sent rail magnate James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a potential railroad in 1853. The territory included in the Gadsden Purchase comprised the southern portion of what is today the state of Arizona and part of the southern portion of New Mexico.
Franklin Pierce
Signed bills subsidizing the Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago to Mobile, and a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Millard Fillmore
Lowered the national debt from $83 million to $57 million.
Thomas Jefferson
He, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson all died on an anniversary of U.S. independence.
James Monroe
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
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
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