• 1. 
    The energy crisis of the late 1970's occurred during which presidential administration?

  • Jimmy Carter
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Gerald Ford
  • 2. 
    Which president initiated the “Good Neighbor Policy” and pledged not to intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • 3. 
    Which president repealed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in the Department of Defense?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George W. Bush
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • 4. 
    Which president is the only leader to have served in both the White House and Supreme Court?

  • John Adams
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 5. 
    Which president ended a period of “détente” with the Soviet Union by adopting a more confrontational stance and trying to “rollback” communist influence during the 1980s?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Gerald Ford
  • Jimmy Carter
  • 6. 
    Which president initiated a period of “peaceful coexistence” with the Soviet Union and negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties in the 1970s?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Gerald Ford
  • 7. 
    Which president was implicated in the Watergate scandal?

  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Bill Clinton
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Richard Nixon
  • 8. 
    Which president implemented the policy of “dollar diplomacy”?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William McKinley
  • 9. 
    Which president signed the Defense of Marriage Act?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George W. Bush
  • 10. 
    Which president signed the Patient and Affordable Care Act which required all Americans to have health insurance?

  • George H.W. Bush
  • George W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • Bill Clinton
  • 11. 
    Which president implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement?

  • George W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George H.W. Bush
  • 12. 
    Which president was the second to have been successfully impeached by the House of Representatives?

  • Andrew Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • Gerald Ford
  • Bill Clinton
  • 13. 
    Which president led the nation throughout most of World War II?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Harry S. Truman
  • 14. 
    Which president added a “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the US could intervene in order to end unrest in another country?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William McKinley
  • William Howard Taft
  • 15. 
    Which president gave the “Day of Infamy” speech?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • George W. Bush
  • 16. 
    Which president led the nation for almost the entire duration of the Korea War?

  • Harry S. Truman
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 17. 
    Which president made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

  • Harry S. Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • 18. 
    Which president led the nation during the Iran hostage crisis?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Richard Nixon
  • Gerald Ford
  • 19. 
    Which president signed the No Child Left Behind Act?

  • Barack Obama
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • George W. Bush
  • 20. 
    Which president began to normalize the US-Cuban relationship after more than 50 years of hostility?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • George W. Bush
  • 21. 
    Which president was known as the “conservation president” for his expansion of the national park system?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William McKinley
  • 22. 
    Which president initiated the “New Deal” in an effort to end the Great Depression?

  • Herbert Hoover
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 23. 
    Which president led the nation to victory during the first Gulf War in the 1990s?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • George W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • 24. 
    Which president’s administration was marred by scandals including the Teapot Dome scandal and extramarital affairs?

  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Warren G. Harding
  • James Garfield
  • 25. 
    Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • 26. 
    Which president convened the Washington Naval Conference in 1921 to limit battleship construction?

  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Herbert Hoover
  • 27. 
    Which president won Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I, making him the second president to receive the award?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 28. 
    Which president created the Peace Corps?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Harry S. Truman
  • 29. 
    Which president appointed Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Justice, to the Supreme Court?

  • George W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • 30. 
    Which president signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913?

  • William McKinley
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • 31. 
    Which president ended 25 years of hostility by opening relations with Communist China?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • 32. 
    Which president hosted peace talks, known as the Dayton Accords, which led to peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

  • Bill Clinton
  • Barack Obama
  • George H.W. Bush
  • George W. Bush
  • 33. 
    Which president implemented the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in the Department of Defense?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • George W. Bush
  • 34. 
    Which president withdrew US ground troops from the Vietnam War?

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Gerald Ford
  • 35. 
    Which president advocated the adoption of the Kellogg-Briand Pact which sought to outlaw war in 1928?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Warren G. Harding
  • 36. 
    Which president created the interstate highway system?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 37. 
    Which president proposed the 14 Points at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Harry S. Truman
  • 38. 
    Which president initiated the War on Terror following the 9/11 attacks?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • George W. Bush
  • 39. 
    Which president was elected to the White House four times?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Grover Cleveland
  • 40. 
    Which president pledged to land a man on the moon within a decade?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Richard Nixon
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 41. 
    Which president implemented the Great Society and the War on Poverty?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • 42. 
    Which president won the Nobel Peace prize in 2009 for his efforts to encourage nuclear non-proliferation, making him the fourth president to receive the award?

  • George W. Bush
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • Barack Obama
  • 43. 
    Which president appointed Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice, to the Supreme Court?

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Barack Obama
  • 44. 
    Which president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • Warren G. Harding
  • 45. 
    Which president was criticized for cracking down on the “Bonus Army” in 1932 — a group of WWI veterans who sought financial aid during the Great Depression?

  • Warren G. Harding
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Herbert Hoover
  • 46. 
    Which president ordered federal troops to enforce desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 47. 
    Which president was criticized for his “court packing” scheme — an attempt to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • 48. 
    Which president initiated the “War on Drugs”?

  • Richard Nixon
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Jimmy Carter
  • 49. 
    Which president guided the nation through the end of the Cold War into a “new world order”?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George W. Bush
  • 50. 
    Which president implemented the policy of containment against the Soviet Union in the Cold War?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 51. 
    Which president won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote peaceful solutions after leaving the White House, making him the third president to receive the award?

  • Gerald Ford
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Jimmy Carter
  • George H.W. Bush
  • 52. 
    Which president stepped up the “War on Drugs” in order to counter “crack” cocaine during the 1980s?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Gerald Ford
  • 53. 
    Which president approved the Bay of Pigs invasion and confronted the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Harry S. Truman
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • 54. 
    Which president escalated the Vietnam War by deploying large numbers of conventional ground troops following the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • 55. 
    Which president introduced the Cold War concept of the “Domino Theory?”

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • 56. 
    Which president was the first to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game?

  • Warren G. Harding
  • William Howard Taft
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • 57. 
    Which president was in office at the start of the Great Recession?

  • Bill Clinton
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Barack Obama
  • George W. Bush
  • 58. 
    Which president appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice, to the Supreme Court?

  • Jimmy Carter
  • Barack Obama
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Ronald Reagan
  • 59. 
    Which president implemented supply-side economics during the 1980s?

  • Jimmy Carter
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Gerald Ford
  • Ronald Reagan
  • 60. 
    Which president was known as the “trust-buster” for his aggressive prosecution of anti-competitive business practices?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William McKinley
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • Grover Cleveland
  • 61. 
    Which president was the first to take office by ascending from the vice-presidential office through constitutional succession?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • William Henry Harrison
  • John Tyler
  • Andrew Johnson
  • 62. 
    Which president introduced Thanksgiving as a national holiday?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • 63. 
    Which president’s administration was marred by a number of scandals, including the Gold Ring, the Whiskey Ring, and the Sanborn contract?

  • Andrew Johnson
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • 64. 
    Which president ordered Commodore Perry to open relations with Japan?

  • James Buchanan
  • James K. Polk
  • Millard Filmore
  • Frankl Pierce
  • 65. 
    Which president’s administration is most closely associated with the “Era of Good Feelings?”

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John F. Kennedy
  • John Adams
  • James Monroe
  • 66. 
    Which president was accused of agreeing to a “corrupt bargain” that prevented Andrew Jackson from securing the White House in 1824?

  • John Quincy Adams
  • Martin Van Buren
  • James Monroe
  • James Madison
  • 67. 
    Which president implemented an Indian removal policy that led to the Trail of Tears?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Andrew Jackson
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • 68. 
    Which president signed the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Monroe
  • John Quincy Adams
  • James Madison
  • 69. 
    The election of which president led to the end of Reconstruction in the South in 1877?

  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • James A. Garfield
  • 70. 
    Which president improperly used his influence to sway the 1857 Supreme Court decision

  • James Buchanan
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Millard Filmore
  • 71. 
    Which president signed the Alien & Sedition Acts?

  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 72. 
    Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson
  • 73. 
    During which presidential administration did the XYZ affair and the Quasi-War with France occur?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • 74. 
    Which president led the nation during the War of 1812?

  • James Monroe
  • James Madison
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • 75. 
    Which president signed the Dawes Act, which allotted land to individual Indians and encouraged cultural assimilation in 1887?

  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • 76. 
    Which president created the First Bank of the United States?

  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 77. 
    Which man was the only one who served as president in two non-consecutive terms?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 78. 
    Which president was the first to have his voice recorded and also ordered the installation of electric lights in the White House?

  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William McKinley
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • 79. 
    Which president repealed most of the Alien & Sedition Acts?

  • James Monroe
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 80. 
    Before becoming president, which statesman drafted the Bill of Rights?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • 81. 
    Which president led the nation to victory in the Mexican-American War?

  • Millard Filmore
  • James K. Polk
  • Zachary Taylor
  • John Tyler
  • 82. 
    Which president instituted civil service reform that awarded federal jobs based on merit instead of political connections in 1883?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Chester A. Arthur
  • 83. 
    Which president resolved the “nullification crisis” of 1828–1832?

  • Martin Van Buren
  • Andrew Jackson
  • James Monroe
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 84. 
    The Second Barbary War occurred during which presidential administration?

  • James Buchanan
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • James Monroe
  • 85. 
    Which president successfully suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion?

  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • 86. 
    Which president signed the Compromise of 1850?

  • Millard Filmore
  • James K. Polk
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Franklin Pierce
  • 87. 
    Which president successfully negotiated a treaty to acquire Alaska from Russia in 1867?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Andrew Johnson
  • 88. 
    Which president used federal troops to suppress the Pullman Strike of 1894?

  • Grover Cleveland
  • William McKinley
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • William Howard Taft
  • 89. 
    The First Barbary War occurred during which presidential administration?

  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • 90. 
    Which president was the first to be filmed by a motion-picture camera?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William McKinley
  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • 91. 
    Which president used federal troops to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

  • Chester A. Arthur
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • Grover Cleveland
  • 92. 
    Which president signed the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railways Act of 1862?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • James Buchanan
  • 93. 
    Which president was commander in chief during the Northwest Indian War?

  • George Washington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • James Madison
  • 94. 
    Which president was the only one who was officially a member of the Federalist Party?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • 95. 
    Which president annexed Texas?

  • James K. Polk
  • Martin Van Buren
  • Andrew Jackson
  • John Tyler
  • 96. 
    Which president vetoed an effort to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Martin Van Buren
  • James Monroe
  • 97. 
    Which president was the second to be assassinated while in office?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • William Henry Harrison
  • William McKinley
  • James A. Garfield
  • 98. 
    Which president successfully negotiated with Britain a resolution to the Oregon boundary dispute?

  • John Tyler
  • James K. Polk
  • Millard Filmore
  • Zachary Taylor
  • 99. 
    Which president annexed Hawaii in 1898?

  • William McKinley
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • 100. 
    Which president signed a bill banning the importation of slaves to the United States?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Quincy Adams
  • George Washington
  • 101. 
    Which president negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • John Adams
  • George Washington
  • 102. 
    Which president was the first to be attacked by an assassin while in office?

  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 103. 
    Which president was the first to face an impeachment vote in the US Senate?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Richard Nixon
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 104. 
    Which president was the first to have impeachment proceedings initiated against him?

  • John Tyler
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 105. 
    Aaron Burr launched his conspiracy during which presidential administration?

  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • 106. 
    Which president issued a warning during his farewell address against “foreign entanglements” and the “baneful effects of the Spirit of Party?”

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • 107. 
    Which president was in office for the shortest amount of time?

  • James A. Garfield
  • Andrew Johnson
  • William Henry Harrison
  • William McKinley
  • 108. 
    Which president negotiated the Gadsden Purchase in 1854?

  • Franklin Pierce
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Millard Fillmore
  • James K. Polk
  • 109. 
    Which president led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William McKinley
  • Grover Cleveland
  • William Howard Taft
  • 110. 
    Which president first established a doctrine that European intervention in the western hemisphere would be regarded as a threat to American security?

  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • James Monroe
  • James Madison
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
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