Later Presidents Quiz

1. Which president approved the Agricultural Adjustment Acts, providing cash subsidies to farmers?
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
John F. Kennedy

2. Which president approved the fist federal income tax bill?
Warren G. Harding
Grover Cleveland
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson

3. Which president approved the Silver Purchase Act, allowing U.S. currency to be backed by silver?
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt

4. Which president presided over the Spanish-American War?
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison

5. Which president sponsored the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (a military alliance covering the United States and nearly all of Western Europe) to contain the communist threat?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy

6. Which president declared war against international terrorism?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
James Carter, Jr.

7. Which president filed 75 antitrust law suites, including a suit against the U.S. Steel Corporation?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge

8. Which president authorized the revenue-sharing program, sending federal funds to state and city governments?
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford

9. Which president approved the National Security Act, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Air Force?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman

10. Which president approved the welfare reform law, requiring welfare recipients to find employment and imposing time limits on welfare eligibility?
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon

11. Which president approved the repeal of the Silver Purchase Act, no longer allowing U.S. currency to be backed by silver?
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland

12. Which president established the first U.S. wildlife reserve?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding

13. Which president approved the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as a means of settling conflict?
Harry S. Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge

14. Which president approved the Budget and Accounting Act, placing limits on federal spending?
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Warren G. Harding
Harry S. Truman

15. Which president approved the Interstate Highway System which was the largest public-works project in U.S. history?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy

16. Which president cut off U.S. foreign aid to countries that violated human rights?
Gerald Ford
James Carter, Jr.
George Bush
William Jefferson Clinton

17. Which president approved the Interstate Commerce Act, establishing the first U.S. regulatory agency?
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft

18. Which president approved the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (a treaty with over 100 countries aimed at ending nuclear weapons testing)?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
James Carter, Jr.

19. Which president approved a campaign finance reform bill limiting the amount of money candidates for federal office can raise and spend in election campaigns?
James Carter, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gerald Ford

20. Which president approved the North American Free Trade Agreement, creating a free market between Canada, Mexico, and the United States?
George Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Ronald Reagan
James Carter, Jr.


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