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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
Minnesota (1858), Oregon (1859) and Kansas (1861) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
James Buchanan
Only President born in New Hampshire.
Franklin Pierce
Alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
Franklin Pierce
His wife Dolley was the only First Lady to be given an honorary seat on the floor of Congress, and was the first American to reply to a telegraph message.
James Madison
His administration marked the beginning of the Native American removal policy.
Andrew Jackson
The first recipient of an official transatlantic telegram, in 1858. The 98-word telegram from Queen Victoria took 16 hours to send.
James Buchanan
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
He, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson all died on an anniversary of U.S. independence.
James Monroe
The 10th President of the United States (1841-1845).
John Tyler
His administration ended up on the losing side of the Supreme Court case United States v. The Amistad, which resulted in a victory for enslaved Africans aboard a Spanish schooner seized by the U.S.
Martin Van Buren
Presided over the War of 1812 with Great Britain.
James Madison
During his administration, Captain John C. Frémont symbolically claimed the Rocky Mountains and the West for the U.S. (1842).
John Tyler
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 purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France during his administration doubled the size of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
The only former president to have been elected to the House of Representatives after his presidency.
John Quincy Adams
His daughter Maria Hester was the first president’s child to get married at the White House in 1820.
James Monroe
Died of gastroenteritis while still in office in 1850.
Zachary Taylor
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
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