SOL Review: American Presidents

Question 1

What conservative President said that "gov't is not the solution, gov't is the problem?"

Accepted Answer

Ronald Reagan

Question 2

Which President was known for the infamous promise: "Read my lips: no new taxes!"

Accepted Answer

George H.W. Bush

Question 3

Which President was known for escalating U.S. troop presence in Vietnam in 1964?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 4

What President created the expectation of leaving after two terms, only broken by FDR?

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 5

What President overcame an ideological problem and agreed to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

Which of the following Presidents took office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 7

What man controversially lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush?

Accepted Answer

Al Gore

Question 8

Which President was known for the War on Poverty, as part of his "Great Society?"

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 9

Who chose to use atomic weapons on Japan, and later led at the start of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 10

Which of the following figures was NOT a military general prior to becoming President?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 11

What was the name of the scandal that forced Richard Nixon to leave office?

Accepted Answer

Watergate

Question 12

Who is the only President to have resigned from office?

Accepted Answer

Richard M. Nixon

Question 13

What President created the Peace Corps and challenged the U.S. to reach the moon in the 1960's?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 14

What man lead the United States during MOST of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 15

Which of the following men did NOT run for President in 1912?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 16

Who was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 17

The Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 began under which U.S President?

Accepted Answer

Jimmy Carter

Question 18

Who led the United States into World War I & proposed the Fourteen Points at its conclusion?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 19

What was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to combat the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The New Deal

Question 20

Who was President at the start of the Great Depression who famously did not do enough to help?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 21

Who became President as part of the Compromise of 1877, effectively ending Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 22

What President was responsible for leading the United States into the War of 1812?

Accepted Answer

James Madison

Question 23

Which of the following was NOT a component of Jacksonian Democracy (the Era of the Common Man)?

Accepted Answer

A reduction in hostilities towards Indian tribes.

Question 24

What President led the U.S. in the Persian Gulf War of 1991?

Accepted Answer

George H.W. Bush

Question 25

What man won the election of 1824, sometimes labeled as the "Corrupt Bargain?"

Accepted Answer

John Quincy Adams

Question 26

What man suffered impeachment proceedings against him after an alleged affair in the 1990s?

Accepted Answer

Bill Clinton

Question 27

Who was the first President of the United States of America?

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 28

What President famously issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 29

Which of the following was NOT a key part of Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal"?

Accepted Answer

Putting an end to Reconstruction in the South.

Question 30

What "Great Communicator" wanted a tougher stance against the USSR in the 1980s?

Accepted Answer

Ronald Reagan

SOL Review: American Presidents

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SOL Review: American Presidents

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