Important presidential facts – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Washington
answer
Farewell address warned against politcal parties and foreign allies
question
Monroe
answer
President during the Era of Good Feeling; devised the doctrine about staying out of Europe's business and vice versions
question
Teddy
answer
Big Stick Diplomacy!
question
Ford
answer
Republican; pardoned Nixon
question
Madison
answer
President after Jefferson; wrote the Bill of Rights
question
Jackson
answer
Considered the common man's president;hero of the war of 1812
question
Jefferson
answer
Democrat-Republican; president after John Adams
question
FDR
answer
Longest serving president
question
Polk
answer
"54-40 or fight!"
question
McKinnley
answer
Goldberg republican president whose election in 1896 effectively ended the populist movement
question
Tyler
answer
First VP to take over the presidency; only former president to side with the confederacy
question
Johnson
answer
Known for his vetoes; president Lincoln's successor; believed in presidential reconstruction
question
Hayes
answer
The election of this Republican president ended Reconstruction
question
Grant
answer
Famous Union general elected to two terms as president; had a corrupt administration
question
Cleveland
answer
First Democrat elected after the civil war
question
John Adams
answer
President during the XYZ Affair
question
Wilson
answer
President during WWI
question
J. Q. Adams
answer
President whom Andrew Jackson accused of being part of a "corrupt bargain"
question
Jackson
answer
First president elected after the property-owning restriction was lifted for voting
question
Taylor
answer
President who was the HERO of the Mexican-American war(not who was president)
question
Harrison
answer
Died in office after serving for about a month
question
Van Buren
answer
Known as the "Little Magician" and Jackson's right hand man
question
Garfeild
answer
Assassinated by a man who thought he deserved a government job based on the spoils system
question
Lincoln
answer
His 1860 election led to the succession of several southern states
question
FDR
answer
This president's policies ended up changing the make-up of the Democratic party to include African-Americans, labor union members, and Jewish citizens
question
Lincoln
answer
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
question
Harding
answer
Played poker with his "Ohio gang"; Tea Pot Dome scandal
question
McKinnley
answer
His assassination let to T.R. Taking over as the youngest president
question
Wilson
answer
Gave us the 14 Points and wanted to be part of the League of Nations
question
Taft
answer
Dollar Diplomacy; trust buster; later a Supreme Court justice
question
Wilson
answer
Moral Diplomacy; Progressive. Ran for reelection with the slogan "He kept us out of war"
question
Teddy
answer
Big Stick Diplomacy; added a corollary to the Monroe Doctorine
question
Nixon
answer
Visits China- achieves detente
question
Coolidge
answer
President during most of the roaring 20's; pro business
question
Truman
answer
Fair Deal
question
Teddy
answer
Square Deal
question
JFK
answer
New Frontier
question
FDR
answer
New Deal
question
LBJ
answer
Great Society
question
JFK
answer
Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis
question
Madison
answer
President after Jefferson; also Democratic-Republican
question
Reagan
answer
Star Wars; tax cuts; conservative Republican
question
Jefferson
answer
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
question
Hoover
answer
Shanty towns were named after him; blamed fir the Great Depression; Republican
question
Eisenhower
answer
Federal Highway Act-modern transcontinental RR; people stopped wearing hats
question
G. H. W. Bush
answer
First Gulf war- successfully proving we can win quickly and leave (unlike Vietnam)
question
G. W. Bush
answer
9/11
question
Clinton
answer
Soft Democrat; impeached; sexual scandal with Monica Lewinski
question
Jackson
answer
Eaton Affair
question
LBJ
answer
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
question
McKinnley
answer
Annexed Hawaii; president during Spanish-American war
question
Hayes
answer
Became president after a deal was made that would take federal troops out of the South and build a transcontinental RR in the South
question
Lincoln
answer
Railway Act of 1862
question
Jefferson
answer
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
question
Teddy
answer
Meat Inspection Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; conservation/ National Parks
question
Chester Arthur
answer
President after the assassination of Garfield
question
Clinton
answer
Considered first president of the "internet age"
question
FDR
answer
Fireside chats
question
Jackson
answer
Pet Banks
question
Madison
answer
President during the War of 1812
question
Eisenhower
answer
Little Rock 9
question
JFK
answer
Freedom Riders; James Meredith is admitted to the University of Mississippi
question
Reagan
answer
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
question
G. W. Bush
answer
Second Gulf War
question
Nixon
answer
Watergate; vietnamization
question
Truman
answer
Desegregated the armed forces
question
Eisenhower
answer
Appointed Earl Warren- a famously liberal Supreme Court justice
question
FDR
answer
Tried to add more justices to the Supreme Court, it was unpopular and failed
question
Cleveland
answer
"The people should support the government, but the government should not support the people"
question
FDR
answer
Lend-Lease Act
question
Wilson
answer
Ratified the 16th amendment (income tax)
question
Clinton
answer
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
question
Truman
answer
Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb to end war with Japan
question
Carter
answer
Brokered a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in the late 70s
question
Reagan
answer
Trickle down or "Voodoo" economics
question
Fillmore
answer
Last president to be a member of the Whig party
question
Teddy
answer
Bull-Moose party
question
Obama
answer
First African-American president
question
LBJ
answer
Used the Tonkin Gulf resolution as a "blank check" to escalate American involvement in the Vietnam war.
question
JFK
answer
Created the the Peace Corps
question
Jefferson
answer
Embargo Act of 1807
question
Nixon
answer
Only president to resign
question
Clinton
answer
First Democrat to serve two full terms since FDR
question
Cleveland
answer
Only presidents to serve two nonconsecutive terms
question
Nixon
answer
President who previously served on HUAC and Ike's VP
question
Carter
answer
OPEC oil Embargo (led to the shortage in the 1970)
question
G. W. Bush
answer
Reputation damaged by the handling of the hurricane Katrina aftermath
question
Wilson
answer
Democrat who won the 1912 election thanks to a three party split
question
Wilson
answer
the 18th amendment (prohibition) was ratified during his administration
question
Wilson
answer
The 19th amendment (woman's right to vote) was ratified during his administration
question
Ford
answer
President when the last Americans left Vietnam
question
Jackson
answer
Trail of Tears; Indian Removal Act
question
FDR
answer
21st amendment (repealed prohibition) was ratified during his administration
question
Clinton
answer
The second president to go through the impeachment process
question
G.W. Bush
answer
His 2000 election came down to a recount and a supreme court decision
question
JFK
answer
Only catholic president
question
Reagan
answer
Iran Contra Affair
question
Andrew Johnson
answer
First president to go through the impeachment process
question
Truman
answer
The Marshall plan was adopted during his presidency to help rebuild Europe and combat Soviet influences
question
Wilson
answer
The 17th amendment (direct election of senators) was ratified during his administration
