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US Presidents

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1.   

Who was the only president sworn into office by his father?

    John Quincy Adams
    Benjamin Harrison
    Calvin Coolidge

2.   

Who was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms?

    Martin Van Buren
    Grover Cleveland
    Millard Fillmore

3.   

Who was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson
    Jimmy Carter

4.   

Who designed the Virginia Capitol and the University of Virginia? Historians consider him to be one of the leading architects of his time.

    Thomas Jefferson
    James Madison
    James Monroe

5.   

Who was the first member of the Republican Party to become president?

    James Madison
    Franklin Pierce
    Abraham Lincoln

6.   

Who is often called the Father of the Constitution? He helped design the checks and balances that operate among Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

    John Adams
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Madison

7.   

Who won a second term as president with 525 electoral votes, more electoral votes than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history?

    Franklin Roosevelt
    Richard Nixon
    Ronald Reagan

8.   

Who was the first president to be nominated by a national political convention?

    John Quincy Adams
    Andrew Jackson
    William Henry Harrison

9.   

Who was the first president elected by a margin of only one electoral vote?

    Rutherford B. Hayes
    Harry S. Truman
    George W. Bush

10.   

Who was the only man in the history of the United States to serve first as president, then as chief justice of the Supreme Court?

    James Buchanan
    Grover Cleveland
    William Taft

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