• 1. 
    Which U.S. president signed the most comprehensive civil rights law in the country’s history?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Harry Truman
  • 2. 
    Which future U.S. president’s correspondence helped establish the consensus for calling a constitutional convention?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • 3. 
    Which U.S. president won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism during World War II?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Donald Trump
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 4. 
    Which U.S. first lady rescued a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the White House when British troops occupied and burned Washington, D.C., in August 1814?

  • Dolley Madison
  • Abigail Adams
  • Elizabeth Monroe
  • Martha Washington
  • 5. 
    Which of these U.S. presidents was not a lawyer by profession?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Bill Clinton
  • John Adams
  • 6. 
    Which dissident political faction nominated former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912?

  • American Labor Party
  • Dixiecrats
  • Republican Party
  • Bull Moose Party
  • 7. 
    Which U.S. president’s refusal to support U.S. Supreme Court decisions led to the Trail of Tears?

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Donald Trump
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 8. 
    Which U.S. president’s acting first lady was his niece?

  • James Buchanan
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Martin Van Buren
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • 9. 
    Which future U.S. president made the “Checkers” speech in 1952?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • Dwight D. Einsenhower
  • Gerald Ford
  • 10. 
    Which U.S. first lady participated more in political affairs, including weekly business lunches with the president and occasional attendance at cabinet meetings, than her predecessors?

  • Nancy Reagan
  • Michelle Obama
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Rosalynn Carter
  • 11. 
    Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson
  • George Washington
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • 12. 
    Which U.S. president helped found the Democratic Party?

  • James Madison
  • Martin Van Buren
  • John F. Kennedy
  • George Washington
  • 13. 
    Which military leader was the first to become U.S. president by a direct appeal to the mass of voters?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • John Quincy Adams
  • George Washington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 14. 
    Which U.S. first lady is thought to have been responsible for making her husband’s political views notably more conservative?

  • Edith Roosevelt
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Martha Washington
  • Barbara Bush
  • 15. 
    Who was the only U.S. president to serve two discontinuous terms?

  • John Tyler
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 16. 
    The phrase “New Frontier” was associated with the programs of which U.S. president?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Barack Obama
  • John F. Kennedy
  • 17. 
    Which U.S. president rebuilt European economies after World War II and sent U.S. forces to South Korea to stem the advance of communism in the world?

  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Gerald Ford
  • Richard Nixon
  • 18. 
    Who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?

  • Jack Ruby
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Leon Czolgosz
  • 19. 
    Which U.S. president was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • 20. 
    Which U.S. president was made a virtual prisoner in the White House because of the public’s opposition to his Vietnam policies?

  • Gerald Ford
  • Richard Nixon
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • 21. 
    Which two former U.S. presidents and friends died within a few hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence?

  • James Madison and James Monroe
  • Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
  • George Washington and John Adams
  • John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
  • 22. 
    Which U.S. president did not reside at the White House?

  • John Adams
  • Gerald Ford
  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • 23. 
    Which U.S. president resigned from office because of his role in the Watergate scandal?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Gerald Ford
  • George H.W. Bush
  • 24. 
    Which U.S. president’s administration was marred by the Iran-Contra Affair?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Richard Nixon
  • George W. Bush
  • Warren G. Harding
  • 25. 
    Which U.S. first lady was responsible for restoring the original elegance of the White House in the 1960s?

  • Melania Trump
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Jacqueline Kennedy
  • Edith Roosevelt
  • 26. 
    Which U.S. president was the first to die in office?

  • James A. Garfield
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Millard Fillmore
  • 27. 
    Who was the U.S. president during the War of 1812?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • James Monroe
  • John Adams
  • 28. 
    Who adopted “White House” as the official name for the residence of the president of the United States?

  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Adams
  • 29. 
    Who is the only U.S. president to be elected to office four times?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Harry Truman
  • 30. 
    Which U.S. president was referred to by his opponents as “His Fraudulency” after a contested election in 1876?

  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Grover Cleveland
  • George Washington
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 31. 
    Which U.S. president observed that the best way to conduct foreign policy was to “speak softly and carry a big stick”?

  • George Washington
  • George W. Bush
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • 32. 
    Which U.S. first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?

  • Betty Ford
  • Edith Wilson
  • Florence Harding
  • Hillary Clinton
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