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1. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
27
The south
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Dwight David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower
December 7th - 1941

3. Sedition acts
Martha
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
His 5th cousin
1814

4. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
His wife
Dallas - Texas
350

5. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Georgia
The Civil War
Harry S Truman
100

6. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
World War I
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Abigail
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged

7. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
November
Civil rights
The Vice President
James Madison

8. What does NATO stand for?
World War I
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harvard
Self

9. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
0
A support group of countries
Abigail
270

10. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
November 22nd - 1963
George H. W. Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

11. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
25
USA
Europe
Lyndon Johnson

12. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Buffalo - New York
William Jefferson Clinton
22 - 24

13. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Harry S Truman

14. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Harry S Truman
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Thomas Jefferson
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.

15. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Woodrow Wilson
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Dwight David Eisenhower
Money goes to kids when a parent dies

16. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Monticello - Virginia
0
Daniel Inouye

17. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Ulysses S. Grant

18. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
A support group of countries
John Adams
Kentucky; Log cabin
Dallas - Texas

19. Which presidents were cousins?
Barack Obama
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't

20. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
A 2nd home for the president
Teddy Roosevelt
270
April 1917- November 1918

21. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
French and Indian War
World War I
Barack Obama
4

22. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
Barack Obama
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction

23. Who balanced the budget?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William Jefferson Clinton
He gets shot
Bad

24. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Polio
Harry S Truman

25. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Harry S Truman
The Vice President

26. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
270
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
John Quicy Adams

27. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
September 1st - 1939
Martha
Barack Obama
John Boehner

28. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
7; 11
November
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged

29. Why did we invade Iraq?

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30. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
Woodrow Wilson
30
None

31. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
John Boehner
French and Indian War
Andrew Jackson

32. Who is the current Vice President?
Since birth
Joe Biden
Universal health care
November 1863

33. How many years is a presidential term?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
4
Thomas Jefferson
Free the slaves in the south

34. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
The government
Gerald Ford
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

35. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
James Madison

36. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
270
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully

37. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
Teddy Roosevelt
1914-1918
England
Germany - Hungary - Turkey

38. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
April 1917- November 1918
Monticello - Virginia
$400000

39. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Martha

40. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Teddy Roosevelt
14
$400000

41. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
6'4'
December 7th - 1941
Abraham Lincoln

42. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
England; sailors; products
Maine and Nebraska
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Hillary Clinton

43. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
4
The south
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
No

44. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
The Vice President
George H. W. Bush
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.

45. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monroe
Thomas Jefferson

46. What was the Banking Holiday?
November
X-ray
444
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once

47. Who had the shortest presidency?
Dwight David Eisenhower
January 20th
A gun
William Henry Harrison

48. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
September 1st - 1939
Yes
Self

49. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Conspiracy
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Dwight David Eisenhower
Abraham Lincoln

50. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Richard Nixon
Lee Harvey Oswald
35
The south

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