Q 01/05

Before Jackson, every U.S. president had come from Massachusetts or which other state?

A) New York

B) Virginia

C) Pennsylvania

D) Maryland

Answer · why

B) Virginia

Virginia. Four of the first five presidents were Virginia planters, a run nicknamed the Virginia dynasty; Jackson, the seventh, was a self-made Tennes...

Q 02/05

Which nickname did Jackson earn for marching his volunteers home from Natchez in 1813?

A) Old Rough and Ready

B) Old Fuss and Feathers

C) Old Hickory

D) Old Tippecanoe

Answer · why

C) Old Hickory

Old Hickory. Told to disband his volunteers far from home without pay or supplies, Jackson refused and led them back to Tennessee himself; the men sai...

Q 03/05

The Battle of New Orleans was fought fifteen days after a peace treaty was signed in which European city?

A) The Hague

B) Ghent

C) London

D) Amiens

Answer · why

B) Ghent

Ghent. The treaty was signed there on Christmas Eve 1814, but word took weeks to cross the Atlantic, so the armies at New Orleans fought on with the p...

Q 04/05

What was the name of Jackson's plantation home near Nashville, where he is buried?

A) Monticello

B) Belle Meade

C) Montpelier

D) The Hermitage

Answer · why

D) The Hermitage

The Hermitage. Jackson bought the 425-acre farm in 1804 after failed land deals nearly bankrupted him and forced the sale of a larger estate, then gre...

Q 05/05

The Waxhaws region, Jackson's 1767 birthplace, straddles the border of which two states?

A) Virginia and Kentucky

B) Georgia and Tennessee

C) Virginia and Maryland

D) North and South Carolina

Answer · why

D) North and South Carolina

North and South Carolina. Nobody is sure which side of the line he was born on: Jackson himself said South Carolina, at an uncle's plantation, so both...