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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
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1. Which president made the panama canal?






2. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






3. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






4. Did we win the Spanish American War?






5. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






6. Who was the only president to resign?






7. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






8. This president helped write the federalist papers.






9. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






10. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






11. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






12. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






13. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






14. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






15. Who is the current secretary of state?






16. Who introduced social security?






17. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






18. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






19. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






20. Why did we invade Iraq?

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21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






22. What is the Truman Doctrine?






23. What is the address of the white house?






24. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






25. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






26. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






27. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






28. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






29. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






30. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






31. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






32. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






33. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






34. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






35. Do we vote directly for the president?






36. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






37. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






38. How many former vice presidents have become president?






39. What was reconstruction?






40. What president had the watergate scandal?






41. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






42. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






43. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






44. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






45. Who was the only catholic president?






46. What date did the civil war begin?






47. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






48. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






49. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






50. What state was John Adams from?







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