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Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st President to not represent a political party | George Washington |
| General during the American Revolution | George Washington |
| 1st President to be put on a stamp and the one dollar bill | George Washington |
| 1st vice president of the US | John Adams |
| President during the XYZ affair | John Adams |
| Died on July 4, 1826 with Thomas Jefferson | John Adams |
| Invented the coat hanger | Thomas Jefferson |
| Purchase the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for 15 million dollars | Thomas Jefferson |
| Principal author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| President during War of 1812 | James Madison |
| White House was burned to the ground by British during his term | James Madison |
| Shortest President at 5'4'' | James Madison |
| Florida seceded from Spain during his term | James Monroe |
| Formed the nation of Liberia in Africa | James Monroe |
| Created the Monroe Doctrine that sets American foreign policy to this day | James Monroe |
| Was a Harvard professor | John Q. Adams |
| 1st Ambassador to Russia | John Q. Adams |
| Would skinny dip in the Potomac River | John Q. Adams |
| Only President to kill a man in a duel | Andrew Jackson |
| Only President to serve in the military during the American Revolution and War of 1812 | Andrew Jackson |
| General during the War of 1812, won the Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
| 1st President born a US citizen | Martin Van Buren |
| 1st President to die in office | William Harrison |
| Annexed Texas from Mexico | John Tyler |
| Had the most children (15) | John Tyler |
| Only President to not name a Vice President | John Tyler |
| Acquired California from Mexico | James Polk |
| General in the Mexican-American War | Zachary Tayler |
| Nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" | Zachary Tayler |
| Passed the Compromise of 1850 | Millard Fillmore |
| Sent Commodore Perry to Japan to open relations | Franklin Pierce |
| Only President to remain a bachelor during his term | James Buchanan |
| South Carolina seceded from the Union during his term | James Buchanan |
| 1st President to be assassinated | Abraham Lincoln |
| Created the Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln |
| Missed being impeached by 1 vote in the Senate | Andrew Johnson |
| Secretary of State Seward bought Alaska from Russia during his term | Andrew Johnson |
| Issued pardons to all Confederate Officers and Politicians | Andrew Johnson |
| Union General was received Lee's sword at Appomattox Courthouse ending Civil War | Ulysses Grant |
| Established Yellowstone as 1st National Park | Ulysses Grant |
| Compromise of 1887 let him "steal the election" according to the democrats | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| 2nd President to get assassinated | James Garfield |
| Created the Pendleton Act | Chester A. Arthur |
| President that dedicated the Statue of Liberty | Grover Cleveland |
| Broke the Pullman Strike | Grover Cleveland |
| Only President from Indiana | William Harrison |
| Assassinated by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz | William McKinley |
| 1st President to ride in an automobile (to hospital after being shot) | William McKinley |
| Created McKinley Tariffs | William McKinley |
| Youngest acting President in U.S. history | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Purchased the Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1st President to travel outside of the U.S. while in office (Panama) | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Heaviest President at 322 lbs. | William Taft |
| Got stuck in White House bathtub | William Taft |
| President during WWl | Woodrow Wilson |
| 19th Amendment is passed giving women's suffrage | Woodrow Wilson |
| Created Fourteen Points to fix Europe after WWl | Woodrow Wilson |
| Lost the entire White House china set in a poker game | Warren G. Harding |
| Was caught in a closet with a young female intern by his wife | Warren G. Harding |
| Corrupt friends brought into Washington creating numerous scandals | Warren G. Harding |
| Used laissez faire economics | Calvin Coolidge |
| Cleaned up Washington after Harding Era | Calvin Coolidge |
| Choir Boy | Calvin Coolidge |
| President during the Great Depression started by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Herbert Hoover |
| Only President to win an election 4 times | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Created the New Deal Economic Program to try and stop the Great Depression | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President during WW2 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Gave the order to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Harry S. Truman |
| Created the Marshall Plan to fix Europe after WW2 | Harry S. Truman |
| Created the CIA | Harry S. Truman |
| General in charge of D-Day in WW2 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Created NASA in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik satelite | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Sent troops to Alabama to protect African American students | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| President during Cuban Missile Crisis | J. F. K |
| Was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald | J. F. K |
| 1st Catholic President | J. F. K |
| Vietnam War during his term | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Installed a buzzer in the oval office to warn when his wife was coming | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Resigned due to Watergate Investigation | Richard Nixon |
| 1st President to travel to all 50 states and China during term | Richard Nixon |
| Only US President to resign | Richard Nixon |
| Was a model while in college at Michigan | Gerald Ford |
| Only Vice-President and President without winning an election | Gerald Ford |
| 1st President to claim to have seen a UFO | Jimmy Carter |
| Returned the Panama Canal to Panama | Jimmy Carter |
| Place embargo on Soviet Union and boycotted Moscow Olympics 1980 | Jimmy Carter |
| Only President that was divorced | Ronald Reagan |
| Oldest President to win an election | Ronald Reagan |
| Was President when the Berlin Wall fell symbolizing the end of the cold war. | Ronald Reagan |
| President during the Persian Gulf War | George H.W. Bush |
| 1st President to be a Rhodes Scholar | Bill Clinton |
| Impeached and then acquitted in the Monica Lewinski scandal | Bill Clinton |
| President during 9/11 | George W. Bush |
| Fought war in Afgahnistan | George W. Bush |
| Fought war in Iraq to get rid of Sad am Hussain | George W. Bush |
| 1st African American President | Barack Obama |
| Passed National Healthcare | Barack Obama |
| Created Gay Marriage Rights | Barack Obama |
| Name at least five presidents that were generals | Eisenhower, Grant, Washington, Jackson, Taylor, William Harrison, Garfield, Arthur, Pierce, Johnson, Hayes |
| What is a Presidential Mandate and give 3 examples from past Presidents and one Presidential candidate | Donald Trump- build a wall, Marco Rubio- Gun Control, Bernie Sanders- Tax cuts for Middle Class, Abraham Lincoln- Unifty the country, Barack Obama- pull troops from overseas, FDR- The New Deal, Nixon-Take troops out of Vietnam |
| List the seven Roles of the President and give an example of a past president who fulfilled this role in his presidency | Chief of State-Washington Chief of Executive-JFK Chief Diplomat-Nixon Commander-In-Chief-Abraham Lincoln;George W. Bush Chief Legislature- Abraham Lincoln;Barack Obama Chief of Party-Gerald Ford Chief Guardian of the Economy-FDR |
| Qualifications for a President | 35 years old 14 years a US Resident A Natural Born Citizen |
| Terms of a President | Four, seven, and eleven year terms were suggested at the convention and several of the Framer's suggested a limit of one or two terms The 22nd Amendment now limits presidents to two four-year terms or a total of 10 years in office |
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