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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
April 1917- November 1918
George Washington
Jefferson Davis
Gerald Ford
2. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
November
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
Social Security
3. What are disability benefits?
A support group of countries
Dwight David Eisenhower
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The north were comunists and the south were not
4. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
Andrew Jackson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Woodrow Wilson
5. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
7; 11
Richard Nixon
6. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Harry S Truman
The Korean War
Woodrow Wilson
Europe
7. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
William Henry Harrison
They were classmates in college
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Tyler
8. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
The government
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
15 million
1
9. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Maine and Nebraska
Jimmy Carter
The north and the south were split up
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The fourteen points
Abigail
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
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
11. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
12. What is the Electoral College?
Maine and Nebraska
Ford's Theater
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
13. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
100
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Jefferson still survives
$400000
14. Which president started the two term tradition?
December 7th - 1941
William Henry Harrison
30
George Washington
15. What were John Adams's last words?
Jimmy Carter
Jefferson still survives
5
X-ray
16. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
James Polk
Bad
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
17. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Free the slaves in the south
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Germany invaded Poland
18. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
19. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Teddy Roosevelt
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. What state was John Adams from?
4
December 7th - 1941
Massachusetts
James Madison
21. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
Conspiracy
Mom
Teddy Roosevelt
22. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
27
Jimmy Carter
The Confederate States of America
They were classmates in college
23. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
8
William Jefferson Clinton
Civil rights
John Wilkes Booth
24. Sedition acts
Teddy Roosevelt
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Barack Obama
25. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mary Todd-Lincoln
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
Barack Obama
26. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Germany was attacking ships
April 1917- November 1918
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
In their state's capital
27. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
A support group of countries
Revolutionary War
22 - 24
John Adams
28. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The Vice President
4th
The north were comunists and the south were not
Ford's Theater
29. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Conspiracy
William Jefferson Clinton
Abigail
30. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Gettysburg Address
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George H. W. Bush
31. Which president was the youngest to serve?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
32. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
George Washington
33. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
George W. Bush
World War I
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Georgia
34. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
35. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
1914-1918
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
60; unconstitutional
January 1st - 1863
36. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
4
April 1917- November 1918
37. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Civil War
His wife
38. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
The Gettysburg Address
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Free the slaves in the south
1 million
39. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
4
Peterson House; the next morning
January 1st - 1863
40. Who was the first VP?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
John Adams
5
January 20th
41. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Germany invaded Poland
4
Gerald Ford
42. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
444
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The White House
Jefferson still survives
43. What was the nullification crisis?
44. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X-ray
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
45. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Dallas - Texas
William Jefferson Clinton
November 1863
46. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Yes
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
27
47. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Teddy Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Alien and sedition acts
48. What war was George Washington in the military for?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The Civil War
French and Indian War
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
49. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Thomas Jefferson
Thus always to tyrants
Conspiracy
James Madison
50. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
William and Mary College
Maine and Nebraska
1814