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1. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The Gettysburg Address

2. Who's son is Camp David named after?
30
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

3. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Jefferson Davis
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
November 1863
Monticello - Virginia

4. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Mom
Woodrow Wilson

5. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
January 1st - 1863
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Korean War

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

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7. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
James Madison
George W. Bush
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Georgia

8. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Jimmy Carter
He fired the Secretary of War Staton

9. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
January 1st - 1863
8
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina

10. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The south
Dental; medical

11. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The north were comunists and the south were not
James Madison
8

12. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Adams
132

13. What is the command of army act?
Martha
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The Confederate States of America
Lyndon Johnson

14. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
George H. W. Bush
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The Confederate States of America
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval

15. This president helped write the federalist papers.
In their state's capital
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison

16. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
His wife
Electors
100
1914-1918

17. What were fireside chats?
Thomas Jefferson
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Germany was attacking ships
Speeches given for hope

18. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

19. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
William Howard Taft
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Harry S Truman

20. Which president created the University of Virgina?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight David Eisenhower

21. Who is the current secretary of state?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S. Grant

22. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
Gerald Ford
8
Monroe

23. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
James Madison
William Jefferson Clinton
Woodrow Wilson
1 million

24. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Hillary Clinton
James Polk
Kentucky; Log cabin
35

25. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Ronald Reagan
Civil War
January 1st - 1863

26. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
He fired the Secretary of War Staton

27. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
In their state's capital
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Daniel Inouye
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison

28. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
April 12th - 1861

29. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
William Jefferson Clinton
7; 11

30. What month is the election in?
4
November
New Mexico to California
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism

31. Where does the president live for free?
William Jefferson Clinton
The White House
Medical insurance for all americans
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves

32. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
William Henry Harrison
His 5th cousin
November 22nd - 1963
Universal health care

33. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
John Quicy Adams
The north and the south were split up

34. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Speeches given for hope
The government
William Henry Harrison
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

35. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Abraham Lincoln
James Polk
The Gettysburg Address
The president

36. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thus always to tyrants
England
2

37. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
William Jefferson Clinton
25
His wife
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

38. Who had the first death in office?
January 1st - 1863
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams

39. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Polio
John Wilkes Booth
6'4'

40. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Lee Harvey Oswald

41. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
John Hinkley Jr.
Ulysses S. Grant
Woodrow Wilson
England - France - Russia - USA

42. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing

43. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
William McKinley
Civil War
George H. W. Bush
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison

44. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The Civil War
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged

45. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Daniel Inouye
England - France - Russia - USA
John Hinkley Jr.

46. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Kentucky; Log cabin
South; north
Dwight David Eisenhower

47. What is the address of the white house?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
7; 11
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President

48. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dolley
French and Indian War

49. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Barack Obama
The White House
Teddy Roosevelt
He was shot on his way to a college reunion

50. 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 ________.
Maine and Nebraska
The fourteen points
Abraham Lincoln
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them

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