Republican Presidents of the United States Quiz

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Abraham Lincoln (16th president)
He was the first Republican president and served during the Civil War from 1861-1865. He was the first president to be assassinated (killed by stage actor John Wilkes Booth) after winning his re-election. He was shot in the head on April 15, 1864 at Ford's Theatre when he and his wife were attending a play named "Our American Cousin". He was succeeded by his vice-president, Andrew Johnson who was a Democrat.

Ulysses S. Grant (18th president)
He was commanding general in the Union Army before he became the president. He served two terms from 1869 to 1877. He stabilized the post-war national economy, supported the Reconstruction, ratified the 15th Amendment and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan.

Rutherford B. Hayes (19th president)
He served one term from 1877 to 1881. He oversaw the end of Reconstruction, reformed the civil service and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War.

James Garfield (20th president)
In 1881, he was the second American president to be assassinated while on office for only six months. He was killed by Charles J. Guiteau, who wanted revenge against him for "an imagined political debt". Guiteau was sentenced to be hang one year after the incident.

Chester Alan Arthur (21st president)
He was the vice-president who succeeded Garfield. Arthur was a lawyer who practiced in New York. He served from 1881 to 1885. During his term, the Pendleton Act was created to allow the Civil Service Commission to hire people for government based on ability rather than political support.

Benjamin Harrison (23rd president)
He was the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison. He served one term from 1898 to 1893, in between the two non-successive term of Democratic president Grover Cleveland. During his term, his administration implemented the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act.

William McKinley (25th president)
He served from 1897 to 1901. After he re-elected in 1901, he became the third president in office to be assassinated. He was shot by an anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He died on September 14, 1901, from complications of bullet wounds. The Spanish-American War (April-December 1898) occurred during his presidency. The U.S. became a predominant force in the Caribbean after the war. The U.S gained Cuba, Guam and the Philippines from Spain.

Theodore Roosevelt (26th president)
As the vice-president he succeeded McKinley in 1901, which he served until 1909. In 1906, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for his efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

William Howard Taft (27th president)
He served one term from 1909 to 1913. After his term, he served as Professor of Law at Yale until Warren Harding appointed him as the tenth Chief Justice of the U.S. from 1921, which he served until his death in 1930. To him, this appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don't remember that I ever was a President."

Warren G. Harding (29th president)
He served from 1921 to 1923. In 1923, he became the sixth president to die while in office. He died from a heart attack in San Francisco during his western tour. During his term, he vetoed a bill designed to give a bonus to WWI veterans, but he oversaw the creation of the Veterans Bureau. He approved several bills to address the farm crisis, promoted new technologies like the radio and aviation along with Herbert Hoover (Sec. of Commerce).

Calvin Coolidge (30th president)
As the vice-president, he succeeded Harding and served from 1923 to 1929. During his presidency, the total federal debt was reduced by one-quarter due to the strong economy and restrained government spending. He signed the Immigration Act of 1924 which restricted immigration into the U.S.

Herbert Hoover (31st president)
He served one term from 1929 to 1933 which coincided with the start of the Great Depression Era started when the stock market crashed in 1929. After the Wall Street crash, he announced plan to keep the Federal budget balanced by tax cuts and increased public spendings.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th president)
During WWII, he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He served from 1953 to 1961. During his term, he obtained a truce in Korea in 1953 to end the Korean War. He also worked incessantly to reduce the tensions of the Cold War.

Richard Nixon (37th president)
He served from 1969 to 1974. During his term, he ended the American war in Vietnam, improved relations with the U.S.S.R and China. In 1972, he became the first American president in office to visit China. In 1974, he became the first American president to resign while in office.

Gerald Ford (38th president)
As vice-president, he succeeded Nixon and served from 1974 to 1977. During his term, he presided over the worst economy in four decades since the Great Depression. He controversially granted a presidential pardon to Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal.

Ronald Reagan (40th president)
During that time, he was the oldest man to be elected into office at the age of nearly 70. He served two terms from 1981 to 1989. His administration initiated a massive buildup of the military; promoted new technologies such as missile defense system.

George H.W. Bush (41st president)
He served one term from 1989 to 1993. During his administration, he oversaw the peaceful ending of the Cold War and played a crucial role to stabilize the dissolution of the U.S.S.R, avoiding a potential war between the two superpowers.

George W. Bush (43rd president)
He served two terms from 2001 to 2009. During his term, military actions were taken against Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2001, he approved the creation of the Office of Homeland Security after the September 11 attack.

Donald J. Trump (45th president)
He became the oldest person after Ronald Reagan to be elected into office at the age of 71. He served one term from 2017 to 2021. During his term, his administration implemented trade barriers on China, which signaled the start of a trade war against China.