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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






2. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






3. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






4. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






5. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






6. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






7. What date did the civil war begin?






8. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






9. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






11. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






12. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






13. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






14. What are surviver benefits?






15. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






16. How did William McKinley die?






17. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






18. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






19. What was the nullification crisis?

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20. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






21. Sedition acts






22. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






23. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






24. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






26. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






27. What is the inauguration date?






28. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






29. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






30. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






31. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






32. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






33. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






34. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






35. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






36. What president had the watergate scandal?






37. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






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






39. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






40. What is the Electoral College?






41. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






42. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






43. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






44. What were the years of WWI?






45. What president had the watergate scandal?






46. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






47. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






48. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






49. This president helped write the federalist papers.






50. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?







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