John Tyler Trivia Questions And Answers
Who was the 10th President of the United States?
A: John Tyler.
John Tyler was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig
ticket with who?
A: William Henry Harrison.
President Tyler sought to strengthen and preserve the Union
through what?
A: Territorial expansion.
Though initially a Democrat, Tyler’s opposition to
Andrew
Jackson and Martin Van Buren led him to ally with what party?
A: The Whig Party.
Harrison's demise caused Tyler to be the first vice
president to succeed to the presidency without being what?
A: Elected to the office.
Upon Harrison’s death, Tyler immediately did what?
A: Moved into the White House, took the oath of office, and assumed full
presidential powers.
Tyler was a strict constructionist and found much of the
Whig platform to be what?
A: Unconstitutional, and vetoed several of his party's bills.
Early into his term most of Tyler's Cabinet did what?
A: Resigned, and the Whigs expelled him from the party.
President Tyler dedicated his last two years in office to
what?
A: The annexation of Texas.
When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Tyler sided
with which side?
A: The Confederate government.
Most historians consider Tyler an obscure president, with
little presence in the what?
A: American cultural memory.
On what date was John Tyler born?
A: On March 29, 1790.
The Tyler family traced its lineage to whom?
A: Colonial Williamsburg in the 17th century.
John Tyler’s father, John Tyler, Sr., was commonly known as
Judge Tyler and was a friend and college roommate of whom?
A: Thomas Jefferson.
With his two brothers and five sisters, where was John
Tyler was raised?
A: On Greenway Plantation, a 1,200-acre (5 km2) estate with a six-room mansion
his father had built.
Tyler was an unhealthy child, thin and prone to what?
A: Diarrhea.
At the age of twelve, what school did Tyler enter?
A: The preparatory branch of the elite College of William and Mary.
John graduated from the school's collegiate branch in what
year, at the age of seventeen?
A: 1807.
Tyler acquired a lifelong love of what author?
A: Shakespeare.
John Tyler’s political opinions were shaped by whom?
A: Bishop James Madison, the college's president.
After graduation Tyler studied law with his father, and
later with what former United States Attorney General?
A: Edmund Randolph.
At what age was John admitted to the bar?
A: At the age of 19, in violation of the rules: the judge who examined him
neglected to ask his age.
In 1811, at the age of 21, Tyler was elected by his fellow
Charles City County residents to the what?
A: House of Delegates.
In 1813, Tyler’s father died, and Tyler inherited his
father's plantation and how many slaves?
A: Thirteen.
Tyler was a slaveholder for his entire life, at one point
keeping how many slaves at Greenway.
A: Forty.
Although Tyler regarded slavery as an evil, he did not
attempt to justify it, and he never did what?
A: Freed any of his slaves.
After two years of being restless and bored at home
practicing law, Tyler sought election to what?
A: The House of Delegates in 1823.
What was John Tyler's most enduring effort in his second
legislative tenure?
A: Saving the College of William and Mary, which suffered from waning enrollment
and risked closure.
In December 1825 Tyler was nominated for what position?
A: Governor of Virginia.
Tyler’s most visible act as governor was delivering the
funeral address for whom?
A: Former president Jefferson, a Virginian, who had died on July 4, 1826.
