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He eliminated the tax on whiskey and bought the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon.
What is Thomas Jefferson
100
The panic of 1837 and opposed the opening of a new bank of America
What is Martin Van Buren
100
referred to as the "dark horse" President and "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"
What is James K. Polk
100
President during the Civil War and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
Won a Nobel Prize and built the Panama Canal
What is Theodore Roosevelt
200
The X Y Z affair ended the quasi war
What is John Adams
200
Charged this president with a corrupt bargain to get into office and proposed the highway and canal systems
What is John Quincy Adams
200
Signed the fugitive slave act and refused to join the republican party as the Whigs declined
What is Millard Fillmore
200
Was a Lawyer in Cincinnati and was born in Ohio
What is Rutherford B. Hayes
200
The only president to serve two terms non consecutively and signed the Interstate Commerce Act which regulated the railroad companies
What is Grover Cleveland
300
The Monroe doctorine and the "Good Feeling" tour
What is James Monroe
300
This President threatened to hang John C. Calhoun and partook in a number of duels against his foes
What is Andrew Jackson
300
tried of get new territories to bypass the territorial stage and apply for statehood to outlaw slavery, died July 9, 1850 in office
What is Zachary Taylor
300
General in Chief of the North and his cabinet part of the Whiskey Ring affair
What is Ulysses S. Grant
300
Signed the Tariff Act of 1883 and tried to combat political bosses
What is Chester A. Arthur
400
Warned the future generations of divided parties and chose neutrality in the French Revolution
What is George Washington
400
First president to die in office, died of pneumonia
What is William Henry Harrison
400
Passed the Kansas Nebraska Act and wanted to buy Cuba from Spain
What is Franklin Pierce
400
The first President to be overridden on an important bill and reconstructed the south while congress was not in session
What is Andrew Johnson
400
Went to college at Miami University and signed the Sherman Anti Trust Act
What is Benjamin Harrison
500
Declared war in 1812 and prohibited trade with both Britian and France
What is James Madison
500
"His accidency" first impeachment resolution taken up against the president
What is John Tyler
500
Tried to compromise with the seceding states and was the only president to never marry
What is James Buchanan
500
From Ohio and assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau
What is James Garfield
500
Declared war against the Spanish to help free the Cubans and enacted the highest tarriff in American history
What is William McKinley