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A. His conquering of Spanish Florida while not at war with Spain.

B. He fought the British during the Revolutionary War.

C. He tried to place a woman, Eloise Henderson, as his Vice President.

D. His policies of ethnic cleansing Indian tribes.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Jackson's presidency was his policy regarding American Indians. Jackson was a leading advocate of a policy known as Indian removal, which involved the ethnic cleansing of several Indian tribes.

A. Mark Eaton.

B. John C. Calhoun

C. Henry Clay.

D. Martin Van Buren

In the 1832 presidential election, Jackson easily won re-election as the candidate of the Democratic Party against Henry Clay, of the National Republican Party. Jackson jettisoned Vice President John C. Calhoun because of his support for nullification and involvement in the Eaton Affair, replacing him with long-time confidant Martin Van Buren of New York.

A. John Quincy Adams.

B. Martin Van Buren.

C. William H.  Crawford.

D. Thomas Jefferson.

The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between incumbent President John Quincy Adams and chief rival Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson received 56.0% of the popular vote while John Quincy Adams received 43.6%.

A. Ronald Reagan.

B. Woodrow Wilson.

C. Andrew Jackson.

D. Martin Van Buren.

President Jackson is the only president in United States history to have paid off the national debt. However, this accomplishment was short lived. A severe depression from 1837 to 1844 caused a ten-fold increase in national debt within its first year.

A. Jackass.

B. Action Jackson.

C. Iron Andrew.

D. Child killer.

During the election, Jackson's opponents referred to him as a "jackass." Jackson liked the name and used the jackass as a symbol for a while, but it died out. However, it later became the symbol for the Democratic Party.

A. Florida.

B. California.

C. Texas.

D. All of the above.

During the 1st Seminole War Jackson found letters that indicated that the Spanish and British were secretly assisting the Indians. He believed that the United States would not be secure as long as Spain and the United Kingdom encouraged Indians to fight. Jackson captured Pensacola, Florida, and deposed the Spanish governor.

A. Captain in the North Carolina militia.

B. Colonel in the Tennessee militia.

C. Major in the South Carolina militia.

D. General in the New York militia.

Jackson was appointed commander of the Tennessee militia in 1801, with the rank of colonel.

A. Old Hickory.

B. Action Jackson.

C. Salty Daddy.

D. Silver Fox.

Jackson was a strict officer but was popular with his troops. It was said he was "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname Old Hickory.

A. None.

B. 9.

C. 44.

D. 150.

Jackson owned a farm where the primary crop was cotton, grown by enslaved workers. Jackson started with nine slaves, by 1820 he held as many as 44, and later held up to 150 slaves.

A. South Carolina.

B. North Carolina.

C. Tennessee.

D. Florida.

In 1797, Jackson was elected U.S. Senator as a Democratic-Republican for the state of Tennessee.

A. His brother died of smallpox while in British captivity.

B. He was slashed by a British sword.

C. His entire family died due to the war with the British.

D. All of the above.

During the American Revolutionary War, Andrew and his brother Robert Jackson were captured by the British and held as prisoners of war; they nearly starved to death in captivity. When Andrew refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed at him with a sword, giving him scars on his left hand and head, as well as an intense hatred for the British. While imprisoned, the brothers contracted smallpox. Robert died a few days after their mother secured their release. Jackson's entire immediate family died from war-related hardships which Jackson blamed on the British, and he was orphaned by age 14.

A. March 15, 1762.

B. March 15, 1767.

C. March 15, 1772.

D. March 15, 1777.

President Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767.

A. 5^th.

B. 7^th.

C. 9^th.

D. 11^th.

Andrew Jackson  was the 7^th President of the United States (1829 - 1837).

A. Assassinated by a Southern Minister.

B. Kicked by a donkey in the head.

C. Throat cancer.

D. Tuberculosis.

In 1881, Grant learned at the same time that he was suffering from throat cancer. Today, it is believed that Grant suffered from a T¹N¹ carcinoma of the tonsillar fossa.

A. The 15^th Amendment.

B. Amnesty Act of 1872.

C. Civil Rights Act of 1875.

D. Species Act of 1875.

President Grant supported amnesty for former Confederates and signed the Amnesty Act of 1872 to further this. He favored a limited number of troops to be stationed in the South - sufficient numbers to protect Southern African Americans and suppress the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) but not so many as to create resentment in the general population.

A. Howard Taft.

B. Andrew Johnson.

C. Horatio Seymour.

D. Edwin M. Stanton.

Grant defeated former New York governor Horatio Seymour with a lead of 300,000 votes out of a total of 5,716,082 votes cast. However, Grant commanded an Electoral College landslide, receiving 214 votes to Seymour's 80. When he assumed the presidency, Grant had never before held elected office and, at the age of 46, was the youngest person yet elected president.

A. Recruit and train new troops.

B. Commander of the Illinois Brigade.

C. Army Cook.

D. He sat out the Civil War and did nothing.

Shortly after Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for 75,000 militia volunteers. Grant helped recruit a company of volunteers and accompanied it to Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Grant accepted a position offered by Illinois Governor Richard Yates to recruit and train volunteers, which he accomplished with efficiency.

A. Farmer.

B. Assistant in a leather shop.

C. Bills collector.

D. All of the above.

At age 32, Grant struggled through seven lean years. From 1854 to 1858, he labored on a family farm near St. Louis, Missouri. From 1858 - 1859 he was a bill collector in St. Louis. Failing at everything, he asked his father for a job, and in 1860 was made an assistant in the leather shop owned by his father in Galena, Illinois.

A. Julie Boggs Dent.

B. Jellie Root.

C. Agnes Parker.

D. Hillary Bestow King.

Ulysses S. Grant married Julie Boggs Dent on August 22, 1848.

A. He simply followed orders and published no opinion.

B. He believed it to be just.

C. For personal reasons he was very gung-ho towards killing the enemy.

D. He opposed the war.

Ulysses S. Grant was a remarkably close observer of the war. In the 1880s he wrote that the war was unjust, accepting the theory that it was designed to gain land open to slavery. He wrote in his memoirs about the war against Mexico: "I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."

A. Yale.

B. Harvard.

C. Boston College.

D. United States Military Academy.

At the age of 17, Grant entered the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York.

A. April 27, 1822.

B. April 27, 1825.

C. April 27, 1827.

D. April 27, 1829.

Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822.

A. 15^th.

B. 16^th.

C. 17^th.

D. 18^th.

Ulysses S. Grant is the 18^th President of the United States..

A. Prostate Cancer.

B. AIDS.

C. Alzheimer's Disease.

D. Lou Gehrig's Disease.

In August 1994, at the age of 83, Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, an incurable neurological disorder which ultimately causes brain cells to die. President Reagan passed away on June 5, 2004.

A. "Just Say NO!"

B. "This is your Brain on Drugs."

C. "Smoke it if you got it."

D. "I never inhale."

First Lady Nancy Reagan made the War on Drugs one of her main priorities by founding the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign, which aimed to discourage children and teenagers from engaging in recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying "no."

A. George Bush.

B. Bill Clinton.

C. Walter Mondale.

D. Jimmy Carter.

Reagan's opponent in the 1984 presidential election was former Vice President Walter Mondale. That November, Reagan was re-elected, winning 49 of 50 states. The president's landslide victory saw Mondale carry only his home state of Minnesota (by 3800 votes) and the District of Columbia. Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in United States history, and received 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%.

A. Germany.

B. The Soviet Union.

C. Canada.

D. China.

President Reagan escalated the Cold War. Reagan ordered a massive buildup of the United States Military and implemented new policies towards the Soviet Union. Together with Britain's prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union in ideological terms.  In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan famously called the Soviet Union "an evil empire."

A. A chicken in every pot.

B. Reaganomics.

C. Great Leap Forward.

D. The New Deal.

Reaganomics refers to the economic policies promoted by President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to:

1) reduce the growth of government spending,
2) reduce marginal tax rates on income from labor and capital,
3) reduce government regulation of the economy,
4) control the money supply to reduce inflation.

A. John F Kennedy.

B. James Monroe.

C. Zachary Taylor.

D. Ronald Reagan.

President Ronald Reagan was released from the hospital on April 11, 1981 and recovered relatively quickly,  becoming the first serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt. The attempt had great influence on Reagan's popularity; polls indicated his approval rating to be around 73%. Reagan believed that God had spared his life so that he may go on to fulfill a greater purpose.[

A. John Hinckley Jr.

B. Arthur Bremer.

C. Lee Harvey Oswald.

D. John Wilkes Booth.

On March 30, 1981, Reagan, along with his press secretary James Brady and two others, were shot by a would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch, the bullet instead pierced his left lung.

A. Bill Clinton.

B. Gerald Ford.

C. George Bush.

D. Dick Cheney.

After receiving the Republican nomination, Reagan selected one of his primary opponents, George H.W. Bush, to be his running mate.

A. Richard Nixon.

B. Barry Goldwater.

C. George Bush.

D. Gerald Ford.

Ford narrowly won, with 1,187 delegates to Reagan's 1,070.

A. Illinois Congress.

B. California Senator.

C. California Governor.

D. American Vice President.

Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California in 1967. His campaign  emphasized two main themes: "to send the welfare bums back to work," and in reference to burgeoning anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at the University of California at Berkeley, "to clean up the mess at Berkeley."

A. The power of religion.

B. Small government is good government.

C. Everyone is equal.

D. Business should be highly taxed.

President Ronald Reagan was a true conservative and believed that small government was best. His speeches were  constantly themed around his small government and pro-business ideals.

A. American Broadcasting Company.

B. General Electric.

C. Ford Motors.

D. The Walt Disney Company.

Reagan was hired as the host of General Electric Theater, a series of weekly dramas that became very popular. His contract required him to tour GE plants ten weeks out of the year, often demanding of him fourteen speeches per day.

A. She was listed as a communist and needed help.

B. They acted together in the film, Brother Rat.

C. She was his SAG secretary.

D. They attended the same church.

Reagan met actress Nancy Davis  in 1949 after she contacted him in his capacity as president of the Screen Actors Guild to help her with issues regarding her name appearing on a communist blacklist in Hollywood (she had been mistaken for another Nancy Davis).

A. Jane Wyman.

B. Nancy Davis.

C. Roz Parker.

D. Michelle Kim.

Ronald Reagan married Jane Wyman on on January 26, 1940. Wyman filed for divorce in 1948, citing a distraction due to her husband's SAG union duties; the divorce was finalized in 1949, making him the only U.S. president to have been divorced.

A. Theodore Roosevelt.

B. Bill Clinton.

C. Ronald Reagan.

D. John Quincy Adams.

President Ronald Reagan married Jane Wyman in 1940. Wyman filed for divorce in 1948, citing a distraction due to her husband's SAG union duties; the divorce was finalized in 1949, making him the only U.S. president to have been divorced. President Reagan married Nancy Davis in 1952.

A. Screen Actors Guild.

B. Motion Pictures Association of America.

C. Republican party.

D. National Football League Player's Association.

Reagan was first elected to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, serving as an alternate. Following World War II, he resumed service and became 3rd Vice president in 1946. The adoption of conflict-of-interest bylaws in 1947 led the SAG president and six board members to resign; Reagan was nominated in a special election for the position of president. He would subsequently be chosen by the membership to seven additional one-year terms, from 1947 to 1952 and in 1959. Reagan led SAG through eventful years that were marked by labor-management disputes, the Taft-Hartley Act, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings and the Hollywood blacklist era.

A. Big Red 1.

B. 18th AAF Base Unit.

C. 12th Wing of the Illinois National Guard.

D. 22nd Tank Division.

President Reagan was assigned to  the 1st Motion Picture Unit (officially, the "18th AAF Base Unit") in Culver City, California. By the end of the war, his units had produced some 400 training films for the AAF.

A. Italy.

B. France.

C. England.

D. United States.

President Reagan joined the military on April 29^th, 1937. Due to Reagan's nearsightedness, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas.

A. Love is on the Air.

B. Santa Fe Trail.

C. Knute Rockney, All American.

D. Hellcats of the Navy.

Ronald Reagan's first screen credit was the starring role in the 1937 movie Love Is on the Air, and by the end of 1939 he had already appeared in 19 films.

A. California Angels.

B. Brooklyn Dodgers.

C. Chicago Cubs.

D. New York Yankees.

Due to his persuasive voice, Reagan moved to WHO radio in Des Moines as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games. His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games that the station received by wire.

A. Actor.

B. Janitor.

C. Sports announcer.

D. Delivery driver.

After graduating from Eureka in 1932, Reagan  got a job broadcasting University of Iowa home football games for the Hawkeyes. He was paid $10 per game.

A. Harvard.

B. Yale.

C. UCLA.

D. Eureka College.

Reagan attended Eureka College, in Eureka, Illinois, where he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, majored in economics and sociology, and was very active in sports, including football.

A. 37^th.

B. 39^th.

C. 40^th.

D. 41^th.

Ronald Reagan was the 40^th President of the United States.

A. February 6, 1911.

B. February 6, 1916.

C. February 6, 1921.

D. February 6, 1926.

Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois on February 6, 1911.

A. Bill Clinton.

B. William Howard Taft.

C. Abraham Lincoln.

D. Barack Obama.

This is a picture of the 44^th President of the United States, Barack Obama (2009 - ?).

A. Jimmy Carter.

B. George W. Bush.

C. Ronald Reagan.

D. Barack Obama.

This is a picture of the 43^rd President of the United States, George W. Bush (2001 - 2009).

A. George H.W. Bush.

B. Gerald Ford.

C. Bill Clinton.

D. Richard Nixon.

This is a picture of the 42^nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton (1993 - 2001).

A. George H. W. Bush.

B. Barack Obama.

C. Bill Clinton.

D. George W. Bush.

This is a picture of the 41^st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush (1989 - 1993).

A. Bill Clinton.

B. Ronald Reagan.

C. George H. W. Bush.

D. George W. Bush.

This is a picture of the 40^th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989).

A. John F. Kennedy.

B. Jimmy Carter.

C. Bill Clinton.

D. George W. Bush.

This is a picture of the 39^th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter (1977 - 1981).

A. Gerald Ford.

B. Lyndon B. Johnson.

C. Ronald Reagan.

D. Barack Obama.

This is a picture of the 38^th President of the United States, Gerald Ford (1974 - 1977).

A. James Buchanan.

B. Gerald Ford.

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Bill Clinton.

This is a picture of the 37^th President of the United States, Richard Nixon (1969 - 1974).

A. Woodrow Wilson.

B. Richard Nixon.

C. Ronald Reagan.

D. Lyndon B. Johnson.

This is a picture of the 36^th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 - 1969)

A. John F. Kennedy.

B. Lyndon B. Johnson.

C. Gerald Ford.

D. Jimmy Carter.

This is a picture of the 35^th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (1961 - 1963).

A. Herbert Hoover.

B. Theodore Roosevelt.

C. Woodrow Wilson.

D. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

This is a picture of the 34^th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953 - 1961).

A. Harry S. Truman.

B. Woodrow Wilson.

C. Abraham Lincoln.

D. John F. Kennedy.

This is the picture of the 33^rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman (1945 - 1953).

A. Calvin Coolidge.

B. Warren G. Harding.

C. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

D. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

This is a picture of the 32^nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 - 1945).

A. Ronald Reagan.

B. Herbert Hoover.

C. Dwight Eisenhower.

D. Harry S. Truman.

This is a picture of  the 31^st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover (1929 - 1933).

A. Herbert Hoover.

B. William Howard Taft.

C. Grover Cleveland.

D. Calvin Coolidge.

This is a picture of the 30^th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge (1923 - 1929).

A. Warren G. Harding.

B. Herbert Hoover.

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

D. Andrew Johnson.

This is a picture of the 29^th President of the United States, Warren G. Harding (1921 - 1923).

A. Calvin Coolidge.

B. James K. Polk.

C. Woodrow Wilson.

D. Chester A. Arthur.

This is the picture of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1921).

A. William Howard Taft.

B. William McKinley.

C. Warren G. Harding.

D. Calvin Coolidge.

This is a picture of the 27^th President of the United States, William Howard Taft (1909 - 1913).

A. Benjamin Harrison.

B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Theodore Roosevelt.

This is a picture of the 26^th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1901 - 1909).

A. Ulysses S. Grant.

B. William McKinley.

C. Theodore Roosevelt.

D. Grover Cleveland.

This is a picture of the 25^th President of the United States, William McKinley (1897 - 1901).

A. Chester A. Arthur.

B. Andrew Johnson.

C. Benjamin Harrison.

D. Franklin Pierce.

This is a picture of the 23^rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison (1889 - 1893).

A. Grover Cleveland.

B. William McKinley.

C. Calvin Coolidge.

D. William Howard Taft.

This is a picture of the 22^nd and 24^th President of the United States, Grover Cleveland.

A. James Buchanan.

B. Harry S. Truman.

C. Warren G. Harding.

D. Chester A. Arthur.

This is a picture of the 21^st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur (1881 - 1885).

A. Grover Cleveland.

B. James A. Garfield.

C. Benjamin Harrison.

D. Woodrow Wilson.

This is a picture of the 20^th President of the United States, James A. Garfield (1881 - 1881).

A. Franklin Pierce.

B. Andrew Jackson.

C. William Howard Taft.

D. Rutherford B. Hayes.

This is a picture of the 19^th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 - 1881).

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. Ulysses S. Grant.

C. Rutherford B. Hayes.

D. Benjamin Harrison.

This is a picture of the 18^th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1877).

A. James A. Garfield.

B. James K. Polk.

C. Zachary Taylor.

D. Andrew Johnson.

This is a picture of the 17^th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson (1865 - 1869).

A. Abraham Lincoln.

B. Ulysses S. Grant.

C. Grover Cleveland.

D. William McKinley.

This is a picture of the 16^th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865).

A. James Madison.

B. Andrew Jackson.

C. James Buchanan.

D. Theodore Roosevelt.

This is a picture of the 15^th President of the United States, James Buchanan (1857 - 1861).

A. Franklin Pierce.

B. Chester A. Arthur.

C. James A. Garfield.

D. John Adams.

This is a picture of the 14^th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce (1853 - 1857).

A. James Buchanan.

B. James K. Polk.

C. Millard Fillmore.

D. Rutherford B. Hayes.

This is a picture of the 13^th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853).

A. Franklin Pierce.

B. Zachary Taylor.

C. James A. Garfield.

D. Rutherford B. Hayes.

This is a picture of the 12^th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor (1849 - 1850).

A. Martin Van Buren.

B. Ulysses S. Grant.

C. James K. Polk.

D. Rutherford B. Hayes.

This is a picture of the 11^th President of the United States, James K. Polk (1845 - 1849).

A. John Tyler.

B. Zachary Taylor.

C. Abraham Lincoln.

D. Andrew Johnson.

This is a picture of the 10^th President, John Tyler (1841 - 1845).

A. William Henry Harrison.

B. James K. Polk.

C. James Buchanan.

D. Andrew Johnson.

This is a picture of the 9th President of the United States, William Henry Harrison (1841 - 1841).

A. James Monroe.

B. John Tyler.

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Martin Van Buren.

This is a picture of the 8^th President of the United States, Martin Van Buren (1837 - 1841).

A. George Washington.

B. Andrew Jackson.

C. Millard Fillmore.

D. Franklin Pierce.

This is a picture of the 7^th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson (1829 - 1837).

A. John Adams.

B. John Quincy Adams.

C. Andrew Jackson.

D. James Madison.

This is a picture of the 6^th President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (1825 - 1829).

A. Zachary Taylor.

B. John Tyler.

C. John Quincy Adams.

D. James Monroe.

This is a picture of the 5^th President of the United States, James Monroe (1817 - 1825).

A. George Washington.

B. James Madison.

C. William Henry Harrison.

D. James K. Polk.

This is a picture of the 4^th President of the United States, James Madison (1809 - 1817).

A. Thomas Jefferson.

B. James Monroe.

C. Andrew Jackson.

D. Martin Can Buren.

This is a picture of the 3^rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809)

A. George Washington.

B. John Adams.

C. Thomas Jefferson.

D. James Madison.

This is a picture of the 2^nd President of the United States, John Adams (1797 - 1801).

A. George Washington.

B. John Adams.

C. Thomas Jefferson.

D. James Madison.

This is a picture of the 1^st President of the United States, George Washington (1789 - 1797).

A. He suffered a heart attack.

B. He suffered a stroke.

C. He was shot.

D. He was hit by a car.

 While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating both his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt.[66] He spoke for ninety minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."

A. Republican.

B. Democrat.

C. Progressive.

D. Anarchist.

Late in 1911, Roosevelt broke with Taft and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination. But Roosevelt had delayed too long, and Taft had already won the support of most party leaders in the country. Roosevelt, along with key allies created the Progressive Party. It was popularly known as the "Bull Moose Party," which got its name after Roosevelt told reporters, "I'm as fit as a bull moose."

A. Charles Fairbanks.

B. John Hay.

C. William McKinley.

D. He had no Vice President.

Theodore Roosevelt was William McKinley's Vice President when McKinley was shot and killed. Since he became President by no election there was no Vice President to elect.

A. George Washington.

B. James Polk.

C. Theodore Roosevelt.

D. George H. W. Bush.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to travel outside the country, when he visited Panama. He was also the first President to ride in an automobile.

A. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

B. "Good to the last drop."

C. "I am a part of everything that I have read"

D. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." is a quote from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The other quotes are from Theodore Roosevelt. He was the first President to coin an internationally recognized trademark, although not deliberately, with his offhand remark, "good to the last drop," about some coffee drunk at the Maxwell House Hotel in Tennessee.

A. The Great White Fleet.

B. Buffalo Soldiers.

C. The Rough Riders.

D. Roosevelt's Raptors.

As Roosevelt's administration drew to a close, the president dispatched a fleet consisting of four US Navy battleship squadrons and their escorts, on a worldwide voyage of circumnavigation from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909. With their hulls painted white (except for the beautiful gilded scrollwork) and red, white, and blue banners on their bows, these ships would come to be known as the Great White Fleet. Roosevelt wanted to demonstrate to his country and the world that the US Navy was capable of operating in a global theater, particularly in the Pacific.

A. Nicaragua.

B. Panama.

C. Belize.

D. Uruguay.

At the time, Panama was a province of Colombia. Colombia first proposed the Panama canal and signed a treaty for an agreed-upon sum.  While the Colombian negotiating team had signed the treaty, ratification by the Colombian Senate became problematic. The Colombian Senate asked for ten million dollars over the original agreed upon price. The U.S. refused to re-negotiate the price. Roosevelt decided in 1903 to support Panamanian separation from Colombia. On November 3, the Republic of Panama was created, with its constitution written in advance by the United States. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. signed a protection treaty with Panama.

A. Alton B. Parker.

B. Chester Arthur.

C. Mark Hanna.

D. John Muir.

When an effort to draft former president Grover Cleveland failed, the Democrats were without a candidate and finally settled on obscure New York judge Alton B. Parker. The outcome was never in doubt. Roosevelt crushed Parker 56%-38% in the popular vote and 336-140 in the Electoral College, sweeping the country outside the perennially Democratic Solid South.

A. Won the 1904 election.

B. Led a military coup against the President McKinley .

C. President McKinley was impeached.

D. President McKinley was assassinated.

At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, President McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz.Roosevelt took the oath of office in Buffalo.

A. George Bush.

B. Bill Clinton.

C. Howard Taft.

D. Theodore Roosevelt.

Weighing over 300 pounds on average, Taft was physically the heaviest American president ever elected. Taft is also, to date, the last U.S. president to wear facial hair.

A. Theodore Roosevelt.

B. Abraham Lincoln.

C. William McKinley.

D. Howard Taft.

William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected.

A. Grover Cleveland.

B. Abraham Lincoln.

C. William McKinley.

D. James Polk.

Theodore Roosevelt was William McKinley's running mate.

A. Vice President.

B. Mayor of New York.

C. Governor of New York.

D. New York Police Commissioner.

On leaving the Army, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898 as a Republican.

A. Rough Riders.

B. Minutemen.

C. Green Berets.

D. Navy Seals.

With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteers from cowboys from the Western territories to Ivy League friends from New York, forming the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The newspapers called them the "Rough Riders."

A. Brigadier General of the Army.

B. Secretary of the Air Force.

C. Colonel in the US Calvary.

D. Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. (Because of the inactivity of Secretary of the Navy John D. Long at the time, this basically gave Roosevelt control over the department.) Roosevelt was instrumental in preparing the Navy for the Spanish-American War and was an enthusiastic proponent of testing the U.S. military in battle, at one point stating "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one".

A. New York Stock Exchange.

B. New York City Police Commissioners.

C. Republican Party.

D. Red Cross.

Roosevelt became president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners in 1895. During his two years in this post, Roosevelt radically reformed the police department. The police force was reputed as one of the most corrupt in America. The NYPD's history division records that Roosevelt was "an iron-willed leader of unimpeachable honesty, (who) brought a reforming zeal to the New York City Police Commission in 1895."

A. Alice Hathaway Lee.

B. Edith Kermit Carow.

C. Rozamund Agnes Parker.

D. Nancy Kay Carr.

In 1886 Theodore Roosevelt traveled to London and married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow.They had five children: Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bulloch "Archie", and Quentin.

A. He was passionate for a return to politics.

B. To join the navy.

C. He tired of bad weather that wiped out his cattle.

D. He had inherited a large fortune.

After the uniquely severe U.S. winter of 1886-1887 wiped out his herd of cattle and his $60,000 investment (together with those of his competitors), he returned to the East, where in 1885 he had built Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, New York. It would be his home and estate until his death.

A. California.

B. Oregon.

C. Wyoming.

D. North Dakota.

Leaving the convention, his idealism quite disillusioned by party politics, Roosevelt indicated that he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the wild Badlands of the Dakota Territory that he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition.

A. Alice Hathaway Lee.

B. Edith Kermit Carow.

C. Rozamund Agnes Parker.

D. Nancy Kay Carr.

Alice Hathaway Lee (July 29, 1861 - February 14, 1884) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of their child, Alice. Roosevelt's wife, Alice died of an undiagnosed (since it was camouflaged by her pregnancy) case of kidney failure called, two days after Alice Lee was born.

A. The Naval War of 1812.

B. The History of George Washington.

C. The Missionaries of New York.

D. A Field Guide of New York's Wildlife.

While at Harvard, Roosevelt began a systematic study of the role played by the nascent US Navy in the War of 1812. Reading through literature on the subject, Roosevelt found both American and British accounts heavily biased and that there had been no systematic study of the tactics employed in the war. Although a challenge for a young man with no formal military or naval education, he did his own research using original source materials and official US Navy records. Unlike previous American and British books that ignored quantifiable facts to push a specific agenda, Roosevelt's carefully researched book was akin to today's modern doctoral dissertations, complete with carefully researched drawings.

It is today considered one of the first modern American historical works.  "The Naval War of 1812" was immediately accepted by reviewers and the newly established Naval War College adopted it for study, and the Department of the Navy ordered a copy placed in the libraries of ever

A. October 27th, 1848.

B. October 27th, 1858.

C. October 27th, 1868.

D. October 27th, 1878.

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City, the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

A. James A. Garfield.

B. Grover Cleveland.

C. William Howard Taft.

D. Woodrow Wilson.

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908) was both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885 - 1889 and 1893 - 1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.

A. Bill Clinton.

B. Ronald Reagan.

C. Zachary Taylor.

D. Theodore Roosevelt.

Originating from a story from one of Roosevelt's hunting expeditions, teddy bears are named after him.

A. 18th.

B. 22nd.

C. 24th.

D. 26th.

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States.

A. Alien and Sedition Acts.

B. Stamp Act.

C. Jay Treaty.

D. XYZ Affair.

The the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were signed by Adams in 1798, cracked down on political immigrants and domestic opponents.These Acts were composed of four separate and distinct units:

The Naturalization Act, passed on June 18
The Alien Act, passed on June 24
The Alien Enemies Act, passed on July 6
The Sedition Act, passed on July 14.

These four acts were brought about to suppress Republican opposition. The Naturalization Act changed the period required to naturalize the foreign born to American citizenship to 14 years. Since most immigrants voted republican they thought by initiating this act it would decrease the proportion of people who voted republican. The Alien Friends Act and the Alien Enemies Act allowed the president to deport any foreigner that he thought was dangerous to the country.

A. Quasi-War.

B. American - Spanish War.

C. American Civil War.

D. War of 1812.

When Adams entered office, he realized that he needed to protect Washington’s policy of staying out of the French and British war. After the Jay Treaty, the French became angry and began seizing American merchant ships that were trading with the British in what became known as the "Quasi-War." Adams sent a commission to negotiate an understanding with France.

A. Whigs.

B. Federalists.

C. Democrats.

D. Republicans.

During the presidential campaign of 1796 Adams was the presidential candidate of the Federalist Party. The Federalists wanted Adams as their presidential candidate to crush Thomas Jefferson's bid.

A. Longest speech.

B. Cast the most tie-breaking votes.

C. Most appointees.

D. All of the above.

As president of the Senate, Adams cast 29 tie-breaking votes; a record that only John C. Calhoun came close to tying, with 28. His votes protected the president's sole authority over the removal of appointees and influenced the location of the national capital.

A. John Q. Public.

B. President's lap Ddog.

C. Honest John.

D. His Rotundity.

In the first year of Washington's administration, Adams became deeply involved in a month-long Senate controversy over what the official title of the President would be. Adams favored grandiose titles such as "His Majesty the President" or "His High Mightiness" over the simple "President of the United States" that eventually won the debate. The pomposity of his stance, along with his being overweight, led to Adams earning the nickname "His Rotundity."

A. Preside over the Senate.

B. Preside over Congress.

C. Give advice and input to President George Washington.

D. Assume responsibility over Cabinet.

Adams's main task while in office was presiding over the Senate. Subsequent Vice Presidents were also generally not powerful or significant members of their President's administrations until after the Second World War.

A. Gave the rules for a distinct judicial branch.

B. Featured a bicameral legislature.

C. Gave a distinct executive with a partial veto.

D. All of the above.

Massachusetts's new constitution, ratified in 1780 and written largely by Adams himself, structured its government most closely on his views of politics and society. It was the first constitution written by a special committee and ratified by the people. It was also the first to feature a bicameral legislature, a clear and distinct executive with a partial (2/3) veto (although he was restrained by an executive council), and a distinct judicial branch.

A. Declaration of Independence.

B. A treaty of commerce with France.

C. Thoughts on Government.

D. Massachusetts's Constitution.

Between September 1 and October 30, 1779, John Adams drafted the Massachusetts Constitution together with Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin.

A. Resolution of Independence.

B. True Sentiments of America.

C. Thoughts on Government.

D. A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States.

At that time several Congressmen turned to Adams for advice about framing new governments. Adams got tired of repeating the same thing, and published the pamphlet Thoughts on Government (1776), which was subsequently influential in the writing of many state constitutions. Many historians argue that Thoughts on Government should be read as an articulation of the classical republican theory of mixed government.

A. Benjamin Franklin.

B. John Adams.

C. Thomas Jefferson.

D. James Madison.

John Adams was President from 1797 - 1801 when he lost the office to Thomas Jefferson.

A. Virginia.

B. New York.

C. Massachusetts.

D. Pennsylvania.

Massachusetts sent Adams to the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and from 1775 to 1778. In June 1775, with a view of promoting the union of the colonies, he nominated George Washington of Virginia as commander-in-chief of the army then assembled around Boston. His influence in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning, he sought permanent separation from Britain.

A. Molasses Act of 1733.

B. Sugar Act of 1764

C. Stamp Act of 1765.

D. Alien and Sedition Acts.

Adams first rose to prominence as an opponent of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was imposed by the British Parliament to assuage British war debts as well as the expense of keeping a standing army in the American colonies.

A. Abigail Smith.

B. Mary Heart.

C. Constantine Clinton.

D. Agnes Brickell.

In 1764, Adams married Abigail Smith (1744 - 1818), the daughter of a Congregational minister, Rev. William Smith, at Weymouth, Massachusetts.

A. October 30, 1730.

B. October 30, 1735.

C. October 30, 1740.

D. October 30, 1745.

John Adams, Jr., the eldest of three sons, was born on October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, to John and Susanna Boylston Adams.

A. Vice President.

B. Ambassador to France.

C. Attorney General.

D. Postmaster General.

Adams's revolutionary credentials secured him two terms as George Washington's vice president and his own election as the second president.

A. 1st.

B. 2nd.

C. 3rd.

D. 4th.

John Adams was an American politician and the second President of the United States (1797 - 1801), after being the first Vice President (1789 - 1797) for two terms. He is regarded as one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.

A. July 4th, 1826.

B. July 4th, 1831.

C. July 4th, 1836.

D. July 4th, 1844.

Jefferson died on the Fourth of July, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

A. Georgetown.

B. College of William&Mary.

C. University of Virginia.

D. Virginia Tech.

After leaving the Presidency, Jefferson  became increasingly concerned with founding a new institution of higher learning, specifically one free of church influences where students could specialize in many new areas not offered at other universities. Jefferson believed educating people was a good way to establish an organized society, and also felt schools should be paid for by the general public, so less wealthy people could obtain student membership as well.His dream was realized in 1819 with the founding of the University of Virginia.

A. Spanish American War.

B. First Barbary War.

C. World War I.

D. French Revolution.

Jefferson began and won the First Barbary War (1801 - 1805), America's first significant overseas war. This was the first of two wars fought between the United States of America (briefly joined by a small Swedish fleet) and the North African states known collectively as the Barbary States. These were the independent Sultanate of Morocco, and the three Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, which were quasi-independent entities nominally belonging to the Ottoman Empire.

A. James Madison.

B. Aaron Burr.

C. Alexander Hamilton.

D. George Clinton.

Working closely with Aaron Burr of New York, Jefferson rallied his party, attacking the new taxes especially, and ran for the Presidency in 1800. Consistent with the traditions of the times, he did not formally campaign for the position. Prior to the passage of the 12th Amendment, a problem with the new union's electoral system arose. He tied with Burr for first place in the electoral college, leaving the House of Representatives (where the Federalists still had some power) to decide the election.

A. Benjamin Franklin.

B. James Madison.

C. John Adams.

D. Aaron Burr.

As the Democratic-Republican candidate in 1796 he lost to John Adams, but had enough electoral votes to become Vice President (1797 - 1801).

A. Democratic-Republican Party.

B. Democratic Party.

C. Republican Party.

D. Federalists.

Jefferson and James Madison founded and led the Democratic-Republican Party. He worked with Madison and his campaign manager John J. Beckley to build a nationwide network of Republican allies to combat Federalists across the country.

A. Vice President.

B. Secretary of State.

C. Attorney General.

D. Postmaster General.

After returning from France, Jefferson served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington (1790 - 1793).

A. Was not welcome.

B. Was serving as the US Ambassador to France.

C. Did not wish to attend.

D. Was in jail.

Because Jefferson served as minister to France from 1785 to 1789, he was not able to attend the Philadelphia Convention. He generally supported the new constitution despite the lack of a bill of rights.

A. President of the United States.

B. Vice President of the United States.

C. Secretary of State.

D. Governor of Virginia.

Jefferson served as governor of Virginia from 1779 - 1781. As governor, he oversaw the transfer of the state capital from Williamsburg to the more central location of Richmond in 1780. He was Virginia's 2nd Governor.

A. New York.

B. Pennsylvania.

C. Rhode Island.

D. Virginia.

In September 1776, Jefferson returned to Virginia and was elected to the new Virginia House of Delegates. During his term in the House, Jefferson set out to reform and update Virginia's system of laws to reflect its new status as a democratic state.

A. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Trumbull, and George Washington.

B. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.

C. Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Trumbull, and George Washington.

D. John J. Beckley, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and  George Wythe.

The Committee of Five included John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.

A. A Summary View of the Rights of British America.

B. The Deceleration of Independence.

C. The Bill of Rights.

D. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedoms.

Following the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, he wrote a set of resolutions against the acts, which were expanded into A Summary View of the Rights of British America, his first published work. Previous criticism of the Coercive Acts had focused on legal and constitutional issues, but Jefferson offered the radical notion that the colonists had the natural right to govern themselves. Jefferson also argued that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and had no legislative authority in the colonies. The pamphlet helped provide the theoretical framework for American independence, and marked Jefferson as one of the most thoughtful patriot spokesmen.

A. Archaic.

B. Obsessive.

C. Enlightened.

D. Humble.

As a political philosopher, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment and knew many intellectual leaders in Britain and France.

A. April 13, 1733.

B. April 13, 1738.

C. April 13, 1743.

D. April 13, 1748.

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743.

A. 2nd.

B. 3rd.

C. 4th.

D. 5th.

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the US having served from 1801-1809.

A. George Washington.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Abraham Lincoln.

D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) is not one of the heads on Mount Rushmore. The fourth head is that of President Theodore Roosevelt.

A. Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

B. I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

C. History is written by the victors.

D. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

"History is written by the victors." is a quote from Winston Churchill. All of the other are quotes from FDR.

A. April 12, 1935.

B. April 12, 1940.

C. April 12, 1945.

D. April 12, 1950.

On March 30, 1945, Roosevelt went to Warm Springs to rest before his anticipated appearance at the founding conference of the United Nations. On the afternoon of April 12, Roosevelt said, "I have a terrific headache" and was carried into his bedroom. The doctor diagnosed that he had suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Later that day, he died.

A. Henry Wallace.

B. Harry Truman.

C. George Marshall.

D. Thomas Dewey.

Aware of the risk that Roosevelt would die during his fourth term, the party regulars insisted that Henry A. Wallace, who was seen as too pro-Soviet, be dropped as Vice President.Roosevelt replaced Wallace with the little-known Senator Harry S. Truman. In the 1944 election, Roosevelt and Truman won 53% of the vote and carried 36 states, against New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

A. Sicily.

B. Hong Kong.

C. English Channel.

D. Morocco and Algeria.

The Allies undertook the invasions of French Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) in November 1942, of Sicily (Operation Husky) in July 1943, and of Italy (Operation Avalanche) in September 1943. The Allied invasion across the English Channel (Operation Overlord) began on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

A. Declaration of War on Japan.

B. Declaration of War on Germany.

C. Law for drafting Americans into the Armed Services.

D. The internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of the Japanese Empire, there was growing pressure to imprison Japanese and Japanese-Americans on the West Coast of the United States. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which imprisoned the "Issei" (first generation of Japanese who immigrated to the US) and their children, "Nisei" (who were US citizens).

A. Germany bombing London.

B. Japan occupying French Indochina.

C. Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

D. Germany attacking the Soviet Union.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, destroying or damaging 16 warships, including most of the fleet's battleships, and killing more than 2,400 American military personnel and civilians.  Antiwar sentiment in the United States evaporated overnight and the country united behind Roosevelt. It is at this time Roosevelt gave the famous "Infamy Speech."

A. No law had been passed limiting Presidential terms.

B. He used emergency war powers.

C. He ran as Vice President under Tom Pelltier. Once Pelltier was sworn in he stepped down and FDR assumed the position.

D. He only ran for two terms.

The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the 22nd Amendment after his presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796. Roosevelt moved the convention to Chicago where he had strong support from the city machine (which controlled the auditorium sound system). At the convention the opposition was poorly organized. Roosevelt sent a message saying that he would not run, unless he was drafted, and that the delegates were free to vote for anyone. The delegates were stunned; then the loudspeaker screamed "We want Roosevelt... The world wants Roosevelt!" The delegates went wild and he was nominated by 946 to 147.

A. Lend-Lease.

B. Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

C. Marshall Plan.

D. Munich Agreement.

On September 2, 1940, Roosevelt openly defied the Neutrality Acts by passing the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, which gave 50 American destroyers to Britain in exchange for military base rights in the British Caribbean islands and Newfoundland. This was a precursor of the March 1941 Lend-Lease agreement which began to direct massive military and economic aid to Britain, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union.

A. US public opinion favored joining the Germans and fight the British.

B. The Soviet Union declared war on Germany and FDR couldn't fight along side a communist country.

C. US had a policy of isolationism.

D. The US declared war on Germany the day after the UK had.

The rejection of the League of Nations treaty in 1919 marked the dominance of isolationism from world organizations in American foreign policy. Despite Roosevelt's Wilsonian background he and acted with great care not to provoke isolationist sentiment.

A. Herbert Hoover.

B. Huey Long.

C. Alf Landon

D. Robert Wagner.

In the 1936 presidential election, Roosevelt campaigned on his New Deal programs against Kansas Governor Alf Landon, who accepted much of the New Deal but objected that it was hostile to business and involved too much waste. Roosevelt and Garner won 60.8% of the vote and carried every state except Maine and Vermont. The New Deal Democrats won even larger majorities in Congress.

A. Federal emergency Relief Administration.

B. Federal Trade Commission.

C. Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

D. Civilian Conservation Corps.

The most popular of all New Deal agencies, and Roosevelt's favorite, was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which hired 250,000 unemployed young men to work on rural local projects.

A. Woodrow Wilson.

B. Joseph P. Kennedy.

C. Herbert Hoover.

D. Alf Landon.

In 1932 FDR beat incumbent Herbert Hoover by a wide margin (57.4% to 39.7%).

A. Vice President of the United States of America.

B. Governor of New York.

C. Senator representing New York.

D. Mayor of New York.

Franklin D. Roosevelt served as governor of New York from 1929 until his elected as President of the United States in 1932. His term as governor provided him with a high-visibility position in which to prove himself as well as provide a major base from which to launch a bid for the presidency.

A. Cancer.

B. Hepatitis.

C. Guillain-Barré syndrome.

D. Tuberculosis.

Though widely believe that he suffered from polio, in 2003, a peer-reviewed study found that it was more likely that Roosevelt's paralytic illness was actually Guillain-Barré syndrome, not poliomyelitis (polio).

A. March of Dimes.

B. Red Cross.

C. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.

D. The Free Masons.

FDR helped to found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now known as the March of Dimes). His leadership in this organization is one reason he is commemorated on the dime.

A. Fiorello La Guardia.

B. Jimmy Walker.

C. Woodrow Wilson.

D. James Cox.

The 1920 Democratic National Convention chose Roosevelt as the candidate for Vice President of the United States on the ticket headed by Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, helping build a national base, but the Cox-Roosevelt ticket was heavily defeated by Republican Warren Harding in the presidential election

A. Post Master General.

B. Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

C. Attorney General.

D. Ambassador to the League of Nations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He served under Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. As assistant secretary, Roosevelt worked to expand the Navy and founded the United States Navy Reserve.

A. Buttons.

B. Adolph.

C. Fala.

D. Rex.

Roosevelt's dog, Fala, also became well-known as a companion of Roosevelt's during his time in the White House, and was called the "most photographed dog in the world." His original name was Big Boy; Franklin renamed him Murray the Outlaw of Falahill after John Murray of Falahill, a famous Scottish ancestor. This was later shortened to "Fala."

A. Massachusetts.   

B. New Jersey.

C. Connecticut.

D. New York.

In 1910, Roosevelt ran for the New York State Senate from the district around Hyde Park in Dutchess County, which had not elected a Democrat since 1884. He entered the Roosevelt name, with its associated wealth, prestige and influence in the Hudson Valley, and the Democratic landslide that year carried him to the state capital of Albany, New York.

A. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

B. Eleanor Prooste.

C. Mary Stanford.

D. Helen Peace.

FDR, aged 23, married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, aged 20, his fifth-cousin once removed, on March 17, 1905 (St. Patrick's Day).

A. Lend-Lease.

B. Allowed the British royal family to take refuge in the US.

C. Captured German fortresses in South America.

D. Nothing. The US had a policy of neutrality before they were attacked in Pearl Harbor.

As Britain warred with the Axis nations, Roosevelt provided Lend-Lease aid to the British war effort before America's entry into World War II in December, 1941.Lend-Lease  was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies.

A. Chicken in Every Pot.

B. The Great Leap Forward.

C. The New Deal.

D. America Moves Forward.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Roosevelt created the New Deal to provide relief for the unemployed, recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic and banking systems. Although recovery of the economy was incomplete until World War II, several programs he initiated, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), continue to have instrumental roles in the nation's commerce. Some of his other legacies include the Social Security system and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

A. December 30, 1880.

B. January 30, 1882.

C. February 18, 1888.

D. March 9, 1891.

FDR was born on January 30, 1882.

A. 21st.

B. 29th.

C. 32nd.

D. 37th.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States of America.

A. George Washington.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

D. Bill Clinton.

FDR was elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.

A. Cancer.

B. Tuberculosis.

C. Pneumonia.

D. Natural causes.

While the official cause of death is pneumonia, modern doctors believe that Washington died largely because of his treatment, which included calomel and bloodletting, resulting in a combination of shock from the loss of five pints of blood, as well as asphyxia and dehydration.

A. Assumed the role of Commander-in-chief.

B. Traveled the world.

C. Wrote his memoirs.

D. Died.

On July 4, 1798, Washington was commissioned by President John Adams to be Lieutenant General and Commander-in-chief of the armies raised or to be raised for service in a prospective war with France. He served as the senior officer of the United States Army between July 13, 1798 and December 14, 1799. He participated in the planning for a Provisional Army to meet any emergency that might arise, but did not take the field.

A. Republican.

B. Democrat.

C. Federalists.

D. None.

Washington was not a member of any political party and hoped that they would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation. His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.

A. True

B. False

Washington reluctantly served a second term as president. He refused to run for a third, establishing the customary policy of a maximum of two terms for a president which later became law by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

A. John Adams.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Dick Cheney.

D. Elbridge Gerry.

Adams's revolutionary credentials secured him two terms as George Washington's vice president and his own election as the second president.

A. John Adams.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Dick Cheney.

D. Elbridge Gerry.

Adams's revolutionary credentials secured him two terms as George Washington's vice president and his own election as the second president.

A. 50%

B. 75%

C. 92%

D. 100%

The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to receive 100% of the electoral votes.

A. George Washington.

B. John Adams.

C. Paul Revere.

D. Nobody.

During this period, the United States was governed without a President under the Articles of Confederation, the forerunner to the Constitution.

A. Treaty of Trent.

B. Treaty of Philadelphia.

C. Treaty of Paris.

D. Treaty of Madrid.

 The Treaty of Paris (signed September, 1783) recognized the independence of the United States. Washington disbanded his army and, on November 2, gave an eloquent farewell address to his soldiers.

A. Major.

B. General.

C. Major General.

D. He was not offered a commission.

Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775; the next day, on the nomination of John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was appointed Major General and elected by Congress to be Commander-in-chief.

A. Martha Dandridge Custis.

B. Martha Jefferson.

C. Sally Fairfax.

D. Eleanor Parke

On January 6, 1759, Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis.

A. Druids.

B. Knights of Columbus.

C. Freemasons.

D. Klu Klux Klan.

At age 21, in Fredericksburg, Washington became a Master Mason in the organization of Freemasons, a fraternal organization that was a lifelong influence.

A. Newspaper editor.

B. Surveyor.

C. Lawyer.

D. Soldier.

In his youth, Washington worked as a surveyor, and acquired what would become invaluable knowledge of the terrain around his native Colony of Virginia.

A. Manchester, England.

B. Washington D.C.

C. Hamilton, Bermuda.

D. Colonial Beach, Virginia.

George Washington was born on the family's Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

A. April 9, 1730.

B. May 15, 1731.

C. February 22, 1732.

D. December 22, 1735.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.

A. Jack Ruby.

B. Fidel Castro.

C. The Mafia.

D. Lee Harvey Oswald.

President Johnson created the Warren Commission,chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination. It concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin.

A. was non-existent.

B. remained the same.

C. increased dramatically.

D. decreased dramatically.

Kennedy increased the number of U.S. military in Vietnam from 800 to 16,300.

A. Doctors without Borders.

B. Green Peace.

C. The Peace Corps.

D. The Boy Scouts of America.

The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924 on March 1, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act.

A. He ordered the invasion of Cuba.

B. He made an agreement with the Soviets and placed American Jupiter Missiles in Estonia.

C. He ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union.

D. He ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) of Cuba.

Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine in which the U.S. Navy inspected all ships arriving in Cuba. He began negotiations with the Soviets and ordered the Soviets to remove all defensive material that was being built on Cuba. Without doing so, the Soviet and Cuban peoples would face naval quarantine. A week later, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a  lasting agreement. Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles subject to U.N. inspections if the U.S. publicly promised never to invade Cuba and quietly removed US missiles stationed in Turkey.

A. Vodka.

B. MiG fighter jets.

C. Nuclear missiles.

D. Electronic spy equipment.

The USSR began shipping intermediate range nuclear missiles to Cuba.

A. Cuban Missile Crisis.

B. Bay of Pigs.

C. Tonkin Gulf Incident.

D. Berlin Wall Crisis.

On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered the previously planned invasion of Cuba to proceed. With support from the CIA, in what is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1,500 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles returned to Cuba in the hope of deposing Castro. However, Kennedy ordered the invasion to take place without U.S. air support. By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors.

A. Robert McNamara.

B. Dean Rusk.

C. Lyndon Johnson.

D. Robert Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy (RFK) was appointed United States Attorney General by his brother JFK. He held the post from 1961 to 1964.

A. Lyndon Johnson.

B. Ronald Reagan.

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Dwight Eisenhower.

On Tuesday, November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century. In the national popular vote Kennedy led Nixon by just two-tenths of one percent (49.7% to 49.5%), while in the Electoral College he won 303 votes to Nixon's 219 (269 were needed to win).

A. Adlai Stevenson.

B. Robert F. Kennedy.

C. Hubert Humphrey.

D. Lyndon Johnson.

Kennedy asked Johnson to be his Vice Presidential candidate, despite opposition from many liberal delegates and Kennedy's own staff. He needed Johnson's strength in the South to win what was considered likely to be the closest election since 1916.

A. Hubert Humphrey.

B. Stuart Symington.

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Lyndon Johnson.

On January 2, 1960, Kennedy officially declared his intent to run for President of the United States. In the Democratic primary election, he faced challenges and defeated Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

A. He won by a small margin.

B. He won by a huge margin.

C. He lost.

D. He did not run.

In 1958, Kennedy was re-elected to a second term in the United States Senate, defeating his Republican opponent, Boston lawyer Vincent J. Celeste, by a wide margin.

A. Mayor of Boston.

B. Governor of Massachusetts.

C. Vice-President.

D. President.

In the 1956 presidential election, presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson left the choice of a Vice Presidential nominee to the Democratic convention, and Kennedy finished second in that balloting to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Despite this defeat, Kennedy received national exposure that would prove valuable in subsequent years. It was probably a good thing he did not win the nomination as it would have difficult to win running against Eisenhower in 1956.

A. He delivered a speech in support of Senator McCarthy.

B. He voted against the resolution.

C. He voted for the resolution.

D. He did not place a vote.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was a friend of the Kennedy family. In 1954, when the Senate was poised to condemn McCarthy, John Kennedy drafted a speech calling for McCarthy's censure, but never delivered it. When on December 2, 1954, the Senate rendered its highly publicized decision to censure McCarthy, Senator Kennedy was in the hospital. Though absent, Kennedy could have "paired" his vote against that of another senator, but chose not to. The episode seriously damaged Kennedy's support in the liberal community, especially with Eleanor Roosevelt, as late as the 1956 and 1960 elections.

A. Jacqueline Bouvier.

B. Marilyn Monroe.

C. Jenny Onassis.

D. Candy Florence.

Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on September 12, 1953.

A.  U.S. Representative.

B. U.S. Senator.

C. Governor of Massachusetts.

D. President of the United States of America.

In 1952, he defeated incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. for the U.S. Senate.

A. U.S. Representative.

B. U.S. Senator.

C. Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts.

D. President.

When in 1946 U.S. Representative James Michael Curley vacated his seat in an overwhelmingly Democratic district to become mayor of Boston, Kennedy ran for the seat, beating his Republican opponent by a large margin. He was a congressman for six years.

A. Led the attack that sank a Japanese destroyer.

B. Shot down more than 25 German planes.

C. He led his men to capture and hold an island in the South Pacific.

D. He saved the crew of his PT boat after they were hit by a Japanese destroyer.

On August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, the PT-109, was taking part in a nighttime patrol near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. It was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.Kennedy was thrown across the deck, injuring his already-troubled back. Nonetheless, he swam, towing a wounded man, to an island and later to a second island where his crew was subsequently rescued. For these actions, Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

A. He agreed with Prime Minister Chamberlain that Germany should be appeased.

B. The US should enter the war on the side of the UK as soon as they declared war.

C. The US should declare war on Japan for their attacks in Asia.

D. The US should join the Germans and unify Europe.

While JFK's father was Ambassador to the UK he had his political ambitions abruptly ended  during the Battle of Britain in November 1940, after publishing  his controversial remarks suggesting that "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here, [in the US]." Kennedy rejected the warnings of Winston Churchill that compromise with Nazi Germany was impossible; instead he supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement in order to stave off a second world war.

A. Ambassador to Canada.

B. Commanded a PT boat.

C. Flew spitfires.

D. Led the invasion of Italy.

United States Ship PT-109 was a PT boat last commanded by then-Lieutenant (Junior Grade) (LTJG) John F. Kennedy  in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy's actions to save his surviving crew after the sinking of the PT-109 made him a war hero, which proved helpful in his political career.

A. Boston College.

B. Yale.

C. New York University.

D. Harvard.

John F. Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international affairs in June 1940.

A. Canada.

B. The United Kingdom.

C. France.

D. Brazil.

Kennedy Sr. (JFK's father) served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II.

A. Abraham Lincoln.

B. John F. Kennedy

C. Richard Nixon.

D. Quincy Adams.

JFK was a member of Scout Troop 2 at Bronxville from 1929 to 1931 and was to be the first Scout to become President.

A. 25th

B. 30th

C. 35th

D. 40th

John Fitzgerald  Kennedy  was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

Behind the glamorous facade, the Kennedys also experienced many personal tragedies.  Jacqueline had a miscarriage in 1955 and a stillbirth in 1956. Their newborn son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, died in August 1963. Kennedy had two children who survived infancy. They were Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.

A. Mormon.

B. Roman Catholic.

C. Protestant.

D. Jewish.

JFK was the first Catholic President of the USA.

A. April 9, 1916

B. May 29, 1917

C. December 25, 1917

D. Jan 3, 1918

Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at 3:00 p.m., the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, and Rose Fitzgerald.

A. State of the Union.

B. The Fourteen Points.

C. Gettysburg Address.

D. What is an American?

The Gettysburg Address is one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago...", Lincoln referred t

A. James Earl Ray

B. John Hinkley

C. John Wilkes Booth

D. Lee Harvey Oswald

Originally, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After attending an April 11 speech in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed Booth changed his plans and determined to assassinate the president.

A. 1st.

B. 10th.

C. 16th.

D. 20th.

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America.

A. Georgetown.

B. Chicago City College.

C. University of North Carolina.

D. He never studied in a university.

Lincoln's formal education consisted of about 18 months of schooling, but he was largely self-educated and an avid reader. He wished to be a lawyer. He would go without sleep in order to study. He would borrow books from a neighbor in the evening, read them by the light of the fireplace, and take them back in the morning. In 1836 he passed the test and became a lawyer.

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

In 1846 Lincoln was elected to one term in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig.

A. Betsy Ross.

B. Mary Todd.

C. Sarah Bush Johnston.

D. Andrea Washington.

On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky.

A. True

B. False

Yes, Abraham Lincoln was the first American President to be assassinated.

A. Whig.

B. Democrat.

C. Republican.

D. National Union.

Lincoln was not a member of the Democratic party. He was a member of the following parties: Whig (1832-1854), Republican (1854-1864), National Union (1864-1865).

A. Illinois.

B. New York.

C. Kansas.

D. Kentucky.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre  Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky.

A. Feb 15, 1806

B. Jan 1, 1807 

C. Feb 12, 1809

D. Mar 23, 1810

He was born on Feb 12, 1809.

A. Change.

B. Charge.

C. Challenge.

D. Chastity.

Due to the unpopular presidency of George Bush, Barack Obama professed the promise of "Change" for America. He was also known for stating, "Yes we can" in his speeches running up to the election.

A. In front of the Lincoln Memorial.

B. In front of Ground Zero (World Trade Center)

C. Illinois's Old State Capitol building.

D. In front of his Chicago church.

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "House Divided" speech in 1858

A. Jack Ryan.

B. John McCain.

C. Alan Keyes.

D. Hillary Clinton.

Obama's expected opponent in the general election, Republican primary winner Jack Ryan, withdrew from the race in June 2004 due to a scandal. Two months later, Alan Keyes accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination to replace Ryan. In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes' 27%, the largest victory margin for a statewide race in Illinois history.

A. 2004 Democratic National Convention.

B. 2007 Democratic Primary.

C. 2008 Presidential election.

D. 2008 Presidential acceptance speech.

In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. He criticized heavily partisan views of the electorate and asked Americans to find unity, saying, "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America." Though it was not televised by the three major broadcast news networks, a combined 9.1 million viewers saw Obama's speech, which was a highlight of the convention and elevated his status as a star in the Democratic Party.

A. 2004 Democratic National Convention.

B. 2007 Democratic Primary.

C. 2008 Presidential election.

D. 2008 Presidential acceptance speech.

In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. He criticized heavily partisan views of the electorate and asked Americans to find unity, saying, "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America." Though it was not televised by the three major broadcast news networks, a combined 9.1 million viewers saw Obama's speech, which was a highlight of the convention and elevated his status as a star in the Democratic Party.

A. Hillary Clinton.

B. Bobby Rush.

C. Rod Blagojevich.

D. Richard Daley.

In 2000, he lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.

A. 1994

B. 1995

C. 1996

D. 1997

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District, which then spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn.

A. The Harvard Law Review.

B. The Center for Neighborhood Technology.

C. The Gamaliel Foundation.

D. Illinois's Project Vote.

From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote, a voter registration drive with a staff of ten and 700 volunteers; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

A. Future President.

B. Dreams From My Father.

C. Communities First.

D. Color of the Law.

Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations, though it evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.

A. Tuberculosis.

B. AIDS.

C. Ovarian Cancer.

D. SARS.

His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, died of ovarian cancer in 1995 at the age of 52.

A. Barack Hussein Obama

B. Barack Asama Obama

C. Barack George Obama

D. Barack Barry Obama

Barack Obama's full name is Barack Hussein Obama II.

A. Michelle Robinson.

B. Michelle Dickinson.

C. Michelle Kim.

D. Michelle King

Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson whom he had met in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.

A. Harvard.

B. Oxford.

C. University of Chicago Law School

D. Columbia University.

For twelve years, Obama served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School teaching constitutional law. He was first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996 and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.

A. International Business Machines (IBM).

B. Business International.

C. Halliburton.

D. Bear Stearns.

His first job after receiving his B.A. was with Business International.

A. University of Hawaii.

B. Occidental College.

C. Harvard.

D. Columbia University.

Barrack Obama was not registered as a student at the University of Hawaii. He studied at LA's Occidental College for 2 years after which he transferred to Columbia University in NY graduating with a B.A. in political science specializing in international relations. Later he returned to school to attend Harvard Law School.

A. Chicago.

B. New York.

C. Los Angeles.

D. Houston.

After high school he moved to Los Angeles to attend college. This was in 1979.

A. Indonesian government demanded his family return to Indonesia.

B. Step father wanted to return to his home nation with his new family.

C. He was expelled from his school in the US so his mother decided to move away.

D. His mother tired of life in America and decided to leave.

When Soeharto came to power in Indonesia he demanded all students studying abroad to return home. This included Barack Obama's step father who was a citizen. He brought his family with him.

A. Korean.

B. French.

C. American.

D. Indonesian.

After her divorce, Ann Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii.

A. Cancer.

B. War.

C. Plane crash.

D. Automobile accident.

He died of an automobile accident in 1982.

A. African history.

B. American literature.

C. Russian language.

D. Economics.

Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham met at a Russian language class.

A. Nigeria.

B. Kenya.

C. Italy.

D. Canada.

Barack Obama Sr. was from Kenya.

A. Memphis.

B. Chicago.

C. St. Louis.

D. Honolulu.

Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women&Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A. August 4, 1961

B. September 11, 1958

C. December 9, 1959

D. April 9, 1960

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961.