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1. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
270
The government
Providing a backup place for military plane landing

2. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
George H. W. Bush
100
8
Eleanor

3. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Lyndon Johnson
Since birth
East of Africa
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November

4. Why did WWII begin?
World War I
Sexual harrassment
Abraham Lincoln
Germany invaded Poland

5. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
World War I
Dolley

6. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Lee Harvey Oswald
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Thomas Jefferson

7. Which president served the most terms?
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
Buffalo - New York

8. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
French and Indian War
New Mexico to California
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Thomas Jefferson

9. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
1914-1918

10. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
Self
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The Vice President
The north were comunists and the south were not

11. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
They were classmates in college
2
No
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged

12. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Daniel Inouye
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2

13. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The Civil War

14. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war

15. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
England
Dental; medical
George H. W. Bush
Alien and sedition acts

16. What date did WWII begin?
East of Africa
Monroe
Richard Nixon
September 1st - 1939

17. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Teddy Roosevelt
Universal health care
Eleanor

18. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
England - France - Russia - USA
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Ronald Reagan

19. What was reconstruction?
Dolley
In their state's capital
James Madison
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited

20. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Germany invaded Poland
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Robert E. Lee
Ronald Reagan

21. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
444
The Vice President
Dallas - Texas
Saving a picture of Washington during the war

22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Thomas Jefferson
8
Ronald Reagan

23. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
James Madison
Europe
East of Africa
Germany invaded Poland

24. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
1 million
The Vice President
In their state's capital

25. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Since birth
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
1

26. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Andrew Jackson

27. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Germany invaded Poland
November 22nd - 1963
1803
Jefferson Davis

28. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Free the slaves in the south
Barack Obama
14
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired

29. What was the league of nations?
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The Vice President

30. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The Vice President
Thus always to tyrants
Dolley
Bad

31. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The north were comunists and the south were not
Teddy Roosevelt
538

32. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
Polio
George H. W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't

33. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Conspiracy
George Washington
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David

34. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
He was shot
4
Peterson House; the next morning
Harry S Truman

35. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
December 7th - 1941
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

36. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Zapruder film
Mount Vernon - Virginia
James Madison
George H. W. Bush

37. Where was George Washington born?
4
Europe
William Henry Harrison
Mount Vernon - Virginia

38. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
William and Mary College
April 1917- November 1918
The Gettysburg Address
Saving a picture of Washington during the war

39. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
Robert E. Lee
Germany was attacking ships

40. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
The fourteen points
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Abigail
January 20th

41. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
$400000
Martha
Sexual harrassment
Harry S Truman

42. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
18
Georgia
1 million
Money goes to kids when a parent dies

43. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Abigail
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant

44. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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45. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Abigail
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
November 1863
1

46. How many years is a presidential term?
4
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Joe Biden
30

47. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Abraham Lincoln
Thus always to tyrants
The Vice President
William Jefferson Clinton

48. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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49. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
The north and the south were split up
John Adams
Abigail
No

50. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Teddy Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Enola Gay
USA

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