US Presidents Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Banking reforms, public works agencies, and Social Security are being discussed as parts of one administration's response to the Great Depression. Which administration is it?
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
Warren G. Harding's Return to Normalcy
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance program
2. An 1823 presidential message warned European powers against establishing new colonies in the Americas. Which president issued the policy associated with that warning?
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
James Monroe
3. A reformer supports regulating powerful corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving natural resources. Which president's Square Deal most closely matches those priorities?
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
4. Which president issued Executive Order 9981, directing the desegregation of the US armed forces?
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
5. Iraq invades Kuwait, and a US president organizes an international coalition that expels Iraqi forces during the 1991 Gulf War. Who was president?
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
6. Which statement most accurately describes the original scope of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
It immediately abolished slavery everywhere in the United States
It freed enslaved people only in Union-loyal border states
It granted citizenship to everyone formerly enslaved
It declared enslaved people free in Confederate areas still in rebellion
7. During which president's administration did the United States impose a naval quarantine after discovering Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
8. Which president resigned from office in 1974 as the Watergate investigation advanced?
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
9. A historian describes an 1803 agreement that greatly expanded US territory west of the Mississippi River. Which president completed that acquisition?
James Madison
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
10. A transportation historian is studying the president who signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, launching the Interstate Highway System. Which president should the historian examine?
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
11. A course examines the 1980s presidential agenda associated with supply-side economics, major tax cuts, and increased defense spending. Which president is the focus?
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
12. Which president signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010?
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
George W. Bush
13. After World War I, a president promoted an international organization intended to help prevent future wars, but the Senate rejected US membership. Who was the president?
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. Which president was impeached by the House in 1868 amid a Reconstruction-era conflict over removing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
15. A voting-rights exhibit highlights the president who signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after urging Congress to overcome discriminatory barriers. Who was he?
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Lyndon B. Johnson
16. Which action by George Washington established a presidential precedent that was later formalized by the Twenty-Second Amendment?
Delivering the State of the Union in writing
Leaving office voluntarily after two terms
Choosing a vice president from another party
Allowing Congress to appoint Cabinet members