US Presidents Quiz Bowl

Who was the first president?

George Washington (1789-1797)

Who was George Wahsington’s cabinet?

Vice President: John Adams

Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton

What were Washington’s major policy decisions?

1.) Judiciary Act

2.) Tariff of 1789

3.) Jay Treaty with England

4.) Pickney Treaty with Spain

5.) First Bank

What three major conflicts was Washington involved in as president?

1.) French Revolution

2.) Whiskey Rebellion

When did Washington give his farewell address?

In 1796

Who was the second president and party?

John Adams, Federalist (1797-1801)

Who was John Adams vice president?

Thomas Jefferson

What were 4 major policy decisions by John Adams?

1.) Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

2.) Naturalization Act

3.) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798)

4.) Midnight Judges (last minute judge appointments)

What president was involved in the XYZ affair?

Johns Adams, nearly caused war with France

Who was the third president and party?

Thomas Jefferson, Democrat-Republican

Who was Thomas Jefferson’s VP and Secretary of State?

VP: Aaron Burr, Secretary of State: James Madison

What major policy decisions did Thomas Jefferson make?

1.) Louisiana Purchase

2.) 12th amendment

3.) Embargo Act

4.) Non-intercourse Act

Under what president did Marbury v Madison occur?

Thomas Jefferson

Who was the fourth president and party?

James Madison, Democrat-Republican

Who was James Madison’s VP & Secretary of State?

VP: George Clinton, Secretary of State: John Monroe

What were James Madison’s major policy decisions?

1.) Macon Act of 1810

2.) Berlin and Milan Decrees

3.) Orders in Council

4.) First Protective Tariff

5.) Hartford Convention

What were two war-related events that occurred under James Madison?

1.) War Hawks

2.) War of 1812

Name presidents of the Critical Era (1788-1815)

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison

Who was the fifth president and party?

James Monroe, Democrat-Republican (1817-1825)

Who was James Monroe’s VP and Secretary fo State?

VP: Daniel Tomkins

Secretary of State: John Quincy Adams

What major court decisions happened under James Monroe?

McCulloch v Maryland
Dartmouth College Case
Gibbons v Ogden

What were 4 major policy decisions that occurred under James Monroe?

1.) Acquisition of Florida from Spain with Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819

2.) Missouri Compromise of 1820

3.) Monroe Doctrine of 1823

4.) Sectional Tariff of 1824

5.) Corrupt Bargain election of 1824

Who was the sixth president & party?

John Quincy Adams, Democrat-Republican (1825-1829)

Who were John Quincy Adams’ vice president and secretary of state?

VP: John Calhoun

Secretary of State: Henry Clay

What 3 major events occurred under John Quincy Adams?

1.) Eerie Canal in NYC

2.) Tariff of Abominations of 1828

3.) Calhoun’s Exposition & Protest of 1828

Who was the seventh president and party?

Andrew Jackson, Democrat (1829-1837)

Who was Andrew Jackson’s vice president?

John Calhoun, later Martin van Buren

What 2 political changes in government occurred under Jackson?

1.) Jacksonian Democracy

2.) Formation of Whig Party in 1832

What were two major events that occurred under Jackson?

1.) Tariffs of 1832 and 1833

2.) Creation of Second Bank of the US (expired in 1836)

Who was the eight president and party?

Martin Van Buren, Democrat (1837-1841)

Who was Van Buren’s VP?

Richard Johnson

What major event occurred under Martin Van Buren?

Panic of 1837 over overspeculation in land, no Bank of the United States, and bad state government finances

Name all the presidents in the Era of Good Feelings & Common Man (1815-1840)

James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren

Who was the ninth president and party?

William Henry Harrison, Whig Party (1841)

Who was William Henry Harrison’s Vice President and Secretary of State?

VP: John Tyler

Secretary of State: Daniel Webster

Who was the tenth president and party?

John Tyler, Anti-Jackson Democrat (1841-1845)

Who was John Tyler’s Secretary of State?

Secretary of State: Daniel Webster

What were 3 major events that occurred under John Tyler?

1.) Webster-Ashburton Treaty

2.) Veto of 3rd Bank of the United States

3.) Establishment of Canadian border at 45 parallel

Who was the eleventh president and party?

James Polk, Democrat (1845-1849)

Who was James Polk’s VP?

VP: George Dallas

What war occurred under James Polk?

Mexican War in 1846, settled with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848

What were two border changes that occurred under James Polk?

Texas becomes a state, Oregon boundary established

What failed act occurred under Polk to keep slavery out of new territory?

Wilmot Proviso Act of 1846

Who was the twelfth president and party?

Zachary Taylor, Whig Party (1849-1850)

Who was Zachary Taylor’s VP?

Millard Fillmore

Who was the thirteenth president? (Zachary Taylor’s VP)

Millard Fillmore, Whig Party (1850-1853)

Who was Millard Fillmore’s Secretary of State?

Daniel Webster

What were 2 major policy decisions that occurred under Fillmore?

1.) Compromise of 1850

2.) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850

Under what president is the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin published in 1852?

Millard Filmlore

Who was the fourteenth president and party?

FranklingPiece, Democrat (1853-1857)

Who was Franklin Pierce’s VP?

William King

What 5 major events occurred under Franklin Pierce?

1.) Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854

2.) Japan opens to world trade in 1853

3.) Underground Railroad established

4.) Bleeding Kansas

5.) Ostend Manifesto, US offers to buy Cuba for 100 billion dollars from Spain or take it by force

Who was the fifteenth president and party?

James Buchanan, Democrat (1857-1861)

Who was James Buchanan’s VP?

John Brekenridge

What were 3 major events that occurred under James Buchanan?

1.) Dred Scott v Stanford in 1857

2.) Lincoln-Douglas Debates

3.) South Carolina secession in 1860

Who was the sixteenth president and party?

Abraham Lincoln, Republican (1861-1865)

Who was Abraham Lincoln’s VP and Secretary of State & Treasury?

VP: Andrew Johnson

State: William Seward

Treasury: Salmon P Chase

What major events occurred under Abraham Lincoln?

1.) Civil War (1861-1865)

2.) Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

3.) Homstead Act of 1862

4.) Ten Percent Plan

5.) Morill Act creates agricultural colleges

6.) Assasination by John Wilks Booth April 1865

Who was the seventeenth president?

Andrew Johnson, Republican (1865-1869)

Who was Andrew Johnson’s Secretary of State?

Willian Seward

What two amendments were ratified under Andrew Johnson?

13 & 14th Amendments

What major events occurred under Andrew Johnson?

1.) Formation of Black Codes & KKK

2.) Amnesty Plan of 1865

3.) Military Reconstruction Plan of 1867

4.) Tenure of Office Act of 1868

5.) Impeachment Trial of 1868

Who was the eighteenth president?

Ulysses Grant, (1869-1877)

Who was Ulyss’s Grant’s VP and Secretary of State

VP: Calfax Wilson

Secretary of State: Hamilton Fish

What major events occurred under Ulysses Grant?

1.) Transcontinental Railroad of 1869

2.) 15th Amendment in 1870

3.) Tweed Ring

4.) Panic of 1873

5.) Credit Mobilier Scandal

6.) Whiskey Ring

Name all the presidents of the Antebellum Era?

William Harrison, John Tyler, James Pock, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant

Who was the ninteenth president and party?

Rutherford B Hayes, Republican (1877-1900)

Who was Rutherford Hayes’ VP?

William Wheeler

What were two major events that occurred under Hayes?

1.) Bland-Allison Act

2.) Troops withdraw from the South as a result of the Compromise of 1877

Who was the twentieth president and party?

James Garfield, Republican (1881)

Who was James Garfield’s VP and Secretary of State?

VP: Chester Arthur

Secretary of State: James A. Blaine

Who assasinated James Garfield?

Julius Guiteau

Who was the twenty-first president?

Chester A. Arthur, Republican (1881-1885)

Who was Chester A Arther?

James A Blaine

What major act was passed under Chester A Arther?

Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883

Who was the twenty-second president?

Grover Cleveland, Democrat (1885-1889)

What major events happened under Grover Cleveland?

Knights of Labor of 1886

Haymarket Riot of 1886

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Washburn v Illinois case in 1886

Who was the twenty third president and party?

Benjamin Harrison, Republican (1889-1893)

Who was Benjamin Harrison’s VP and Secretary of State?

VP: Levi Morton

Secretary of State: James A Blaine

What major events occurred under Benjamin Harrison?

1.) Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

2.) Populist Party Platform of 1892

3.) North & South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, & Washington become states

4.) McKinely Tariff of 1890

Who was the twenty fourth president and party?

Grover Cleveland, Democrat (1893-1897)

Who was Grover Cleveland’s VP in his second term?

Adlai Stevenson

What major events occurred under Grover Cleveland’s second term?

1.) Panic of 1893

2.) Hawaiian Incident

3.) Venezuelan Boundary Affair of 1895

4.) Pullman Strike of 1894

5.) American Federation of Labor

6.) Wilson-Gorman Tariff in 1894

Who was the twenty-fifth president and party?

William McKinley, Republican (1897-1901)

Who was William McKinley’s two VPS and secretary of state

VP: Garet Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of State: John Hay

What major events occurred under William McKinley?

1.) New Imperialism

2.) Spanish-American War (1898-1899)

3.) Open Door Policy of 1899

4.) Boxer Rebellion of 1900

5.) McKinley assassination by Leon Czolgosz in 1901

Who was the twenty-sixth president and party?

Theodore Roosevelt, Republican (1901-1909)

Who was Theodore Roosevelt’s VP and Secretary of State

VP: Charles Fairbanks

Secretary of State: John Hay, Elihu Root

What major events occurred under Theodore Roosevelt?

1.) Panama Canal

2.) Big Stick Diplomacy

3.) Square Deal

4.) 3 C’s (consumer protection, conservationism, control of corps)

5.) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

6.) Portsmouth Treaty of 1905

7.) Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan in 1904

8.) Hague Conference in 1899 and 1907

9.) Pure Food & Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, Muckrakers

10.) Venezuelan Debt Controversy

11.) Dominican Republic crisis

12.) Algerius Conference over Morrocco

Who was the twenty seventh presidents and party?

William Taft, Republican (1909-1913)

Who was William Taft’s VP?

James Sherman

What major events occurred William H Taft?

Paine-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

Pinchot-Ballinger controversy

16th Amendment about income tax

Dollar Diplomacy

Who was the twenty-eight president and party?

Woodrow Wilson, Democrat (1913, 1921)

Who was Woodrow Wilson’s VP?

Thomas Marshall

What major events happened under Woodrow Wilson?

1.) 17th, 18th, 19th Amendment

2.) Federal Reserve System & Federal Trade Commission of 1914

3.) Clayton Anti-Trust Act

4.) Troops in Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, and Mexico

5.) Sinking of the Lusitania

6.) World War I

7.) Zimmerman Telegram

8.) Treaty of Versailles

9.) New Freedom

Name the presidents of the Gilded Age (1877-1900)

Rutherford B Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H Taft, Woodrow Wilson