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1. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Abigail
Woodrow Wilson
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
22 - 24

2. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
England; sailors; products
Teddy Roosevelt
6'4'

3. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Thomas Jefferson
Germany was attacking ships
Maine and Nebraska
Saving a picture of Washington during the war

4. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Enola Gay
Monticello - Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower

5. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Teddy Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The Vice President
James Madison

6. Who was Deep Throat?
0
November 22nd - 1963
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Electors

7. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt

8. Why did WWII begin?
60; unconstitutional
Germany invaded Poland
Dental; medical
The north and the south were split up

9. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton
Massachusetts
William Jefferson Clinton

10. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams

11. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
The south

12. What is Camp David?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A 2nd home for the president
Bad
England - France - Russia - USA

13. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Universal health care
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Eleanor

14. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
$400000
Perjury and obstruction of justice

15. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
132
Mom
George Washington
Thus always to tyrants

16. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

17. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Acting
Conspiracy
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
4

18. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
4
Yes
Buffalo - New York
Teddy Roosevelt

19. John Adams went to what college?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
William Henry Harrison

20. Who introduced disability benefits?
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
15

21. Sedition acts
Andrew Jackson
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The fourteen points
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC

22. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
14
8
Teddy Roosevelt
100

23. What was the most terms served by a president?
14
Barack Obama
4
Monroe

24. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
April 12th - 1861
Acting
The fourteen points
In their state's capital

25. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Lyndon Johnson
350
Buffalo - New York
7; 11

26. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Ronald Reagan
Jefferson Davis
John Boehner

27. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In their state's capital
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment

28. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
George W. Bush
Maryland
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
5

29. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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30. What is the command of army act?
USA
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt

31. Who was George Washington's wife?
5
Martha
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Yes

32. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
15 million
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval

33. What does NATO stand for?
Barack Obama
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater

34. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
East of Africa
Dwight David Eisenhower
New Mexico to California
Mom

35. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Teddy Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning

36. Who had the shortest presidency?
18
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
A 2nd home for the president

37. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
14
James Madison
8
Teddy Roosevelt

38. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
John Adams
Acting

39. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Conspiracy
The north and the south were split up
Harvard
Robert E. Lee

40. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
22 - 24
Mom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan

41. What was the nullification crisis?

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42. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Abraham Lincoln
No
John Quicy Adams

43. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
$400000
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Harry S Truman

44. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Jimmy Carter
The Civil War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

45. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Ulysses S. Grant
September 1st - 1939

46. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

47. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
December 7th - 1941
Jimmy Carter

48. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
World War I
27
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The south

49. Where did the civil war begin?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Polio
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
French and Indian War

50. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
World War I
John Adams
Barack Obama
James Madison

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