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U.S. Presidents Random Quiz #2

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

This quiz covers presidents #16 through #30.

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Last updated: December 20, 2024
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The 25th President of the United States (1897-1901).
William McKinley
The 29th President of the United States (1921-1923).
Warren G. Harding
The 30th President of the United States (1923-1929).
Calvin Coolidge
The 26th President of the United States (1901-1909).
Theodore Roosevelt
Was a committed non-interventionist, declining to continue foreign policy initiatives begun by his predecessors.
Grover Cleveland
In his “Swing Around the Circle” campaign speaking tour in 1866, he compared himself to Jesus Christ, argued with hecklers and threatened to fire Cabinet secretaries who disagreed with him.
Andrew Johnson
In 1878, mediated a territorial dispute between Argentina and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco region. The territory was awarded to Paraguay, who renamed a city and a department in the President’s honor.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Upon discovery of a tumor in his mouth, a secret surgery was performed in 1893, during which parts of his upper left jaw and hard palate were removed.
Grover Cleveland
Sought to renegotiate the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to allow the U.S. to construct a canal through Panama without British involvement and to attempt to reduce British influence in the strategically located Kingdom of Hawai’i.
James A. Garfield
His most disastrous political miscalculation was to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when 11 out of 36 states were unrepresented in the Congress, and that it discriminated in favor of African Americans and against whites. (Congress overrode his veto.)
Andrew Johnson
Assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1865.
Abraham Lincoln
His Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, caused railroads to forfeit about 81 million acres of land for failing to extend their rail lines according to agreements with the government.
Grover Cleveland
His veto of the Volstead Act, designed to enforce Amendment XVIII (prohibition), was overridden by Congress.
Woodrow Wilson
Oklahoma (1907) was admitted to the Union during his presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt
Assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, N.Y.
William McKinley
The 20th President of the United States (1881).
James A. Garfield
Became the first President to help settle a labor dispute (the Coal strike of 1902).
Theodore Roosevelt
Sent troops to occupy Haiti (1915) and the Dominican Republic (1916), and authorized interventions in Cuba, Panama and Honduras, despite having criticized his predecessors’ foreign policies as being too imperialistic.
Woodrow Wilson
Investigated and prosecuted corruption in the Indian Service, General Land Office and Post Office Department.
Theodore Roosevelt
His address to Congress in 1923 was the first to be broadcast over the radio.
Calvin Coolidge
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