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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The 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809).	Thomas Jefferson
Initiated at least fourteen indictments of political rivals under the Sedition Act and brought lawsuits against five prominent newspapers that criticized the government.	John Adams
The 1st President of the United States (1789-1797).	George Washington
The 10th President of the United States (1841-1845).	John Tyler
Sent rail magnate James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a potential railroad in 1853. The territory included in the Gadsden Purchase comprised the southern portion of what is today the state of Arizona and part of the southern portion of New Mexico.	Franklin Pierce
The goals of his administration were (1) reestablish the Independent Treasury System; (2) reduce tariffs; (3) acquire some or all of the Oregon Country; and (4) acquire California and its harbors from Mexico.	James K. Polk
Purchased Florida from Spain and set the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and Spanish territory.	John Quincy Adams
Signed bills subsidizing the Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago to Mobile, and a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.	Millard Fillmore
Died (probably of pneumonia) exactly one month after taking office in 1841, having endured doctors’ ministrations of mustard plasters, laxatives, bloodletting, heated cups, castor oil, laudanum, opium and camphor.	William Henry Harrison
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
Established a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere and held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.	James Monroe
The eldest son of the second President of the United States.	John Quincy Adams
The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861).	James Buchanan
Wrote in opposition to the Stamp Act using the pseudonym “Humphrey Ploughjogger.”	John Adams
Presided over border dispute tensions between the state of Texas and the New Mexico Territory.	Zachary Taylor
Sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry to the Japanese shogunate to effect a trade deal (1854).	Franklin Pierce
His daughter Maria Hester was the first president’s child to get married at the White House in 1820.	James Monroe
During his presidency, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford further stoked distrust between North and South, especially when it became apparent that the court’s decision had been leaked to the President in advance.	James Buchanan
As a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, introduced the Bill of Rights during the first Congress.	James Madison
Died of gastroenteritis while still in office in 1850.	Zachary Taylor

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