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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






2. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






3. What are disability benefits?






4. Who is the current secretary of state?






5. What was the New Deal?






6. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






7. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






8. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






9. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






10. What month and day do we vote for the president?






11. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?


12. What is the Electoral College?






13. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






14. Which president started the two term tradition?






15. What were John Adams's last words?






16. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






17. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






18. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






19. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






20. What state was John Adams from?






21. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






22. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






23. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






24. Sedition acts






25. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






26. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






27. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






28. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






29. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






30. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






31. Which president was the youngest to serve?






32. Who balanced the budget?






33. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






34. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






35. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






36. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






37. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






38. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






39. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






40. Who was the first VP?






41. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






42. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






43. What was the nullification crisis?


44. Who introduced surviver benefits?






45. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






46. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






47. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






48. What war was George Washington in the military for?






49. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






50. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?