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Presidents (Part 2) Flashcards

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Name the President: Approved the Bay of Pigs invasion, but didn’t go through with it

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: President during the Panic of 1893

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Grover Cleveland

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Name the President: Foreign policy achievements include the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, and the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union.

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Jimmy Carter

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Andrew Johnson

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North Carolina

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Name the President: Operation Mongoose was under him

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Intervened in the Pullman Strikes

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Grover Cleveland

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Name the President: Established the EPA and OSHA

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Richard Nixon

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Name the President: Started the National Labor Relations Act

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Died of a heart attack while in office

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Proposed, but did not pass, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: President when the 19th Amendment was passed

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Warned against the Military Industrial complex

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Signed the Helsinki Accords

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Gerald Ford

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Name the President: Led the strategic Hamlet program

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: The S doesnt stand for anything

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: Oversaw Operation Torch and Normandy in WWII

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Nickname: Silent Cal

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Calvin Coolidge

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Name the President: Signed the No Child Left Behind Act

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George W. Bush

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Name the President: Had the SDI - strategic defense initiative

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Ronald Reagan

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Name the President: First Lady: Pat Ryan

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Richard Nixon

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Name the President: Came into office when Harding died of a heart attack

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Calvin Coolidge

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Name the President: Civillian governor in the Phillippines

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William Howard Taft

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Name the President: Most recent President to die in office

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Calvin Coolidge

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Vermont

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Harry S. Truman

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Missouri

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Name the President: Nicknamed Ike

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Successful efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War won him a nobel peace prize

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Split the Republican vote with President Taft, allowing Wilson to win the presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Passed the Land Revision Act of 1891, essentially creating the first national forests

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Benjamin Harrison

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Name the President: Passed the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act

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Benjamin Harrison

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Name the President: Defeated Ronald Reagan in the 1976 primary

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Gerald Ford

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Name the President: Herbert Hoover was his commerce secretary (not Coolidge)

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: First lady: Lou Henry

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Herbert Hoover

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: James Buchanan

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Pennsylvania

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Name the President: Only President to resign from office

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Richard Nixon

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Name the President: Served as a hangman in Erie County, NY

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Grover Cleveland

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor

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Kentucky

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Name the President: Issued “Fourteen Points”

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Woodrow Wilson

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Name the President: Was President during the Tonkin Incident

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Name the President: Signed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Donald Trump

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Name the President: Had an affair with Nan Britton

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Balanced the federal budget in the 90s, resulting in a surplus

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, paving the way for Brown v Board

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Became one of the youngest aviators in the U.S. Navy at age 18

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George H. W. Bush

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Name the President: Wanted to “Whip Inflation Now”

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Gerald Ford

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Name the President: First lady: Laura Welch

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George W. Bush

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Name the President: “Good Neighbor” policy towards Latin America

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Ended American combat in Vietnam

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Richard Nixon

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Franklin Pierce

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New Hampshire

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Name the President: President during the victory in the Spanish-American War

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William McKinley

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Name the President: First sitting senator elected President

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Woodrow Wilson

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Virginia

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Name the President: Oversaw the Berlin airlift

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: First lady: Helen Herron

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William Howard Taft

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Name the President: Began the progressive Bull Moose party

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: First President voted for by women

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Only President to be impeached twice

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Donald Trump

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Name the President: First Lady: Edith Carow (Spouse before office: Alice Lee)

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Started Social Security

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Signed the Native American Citizenship, giving immediate citizenship for all Native Americans

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Calvin Coolidge

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Name the President: Youngest person elected President

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Sandwiched between Grover Cleveland’s terms

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Benjamin Harrison

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Name the President: Prioritized national parks and conservation

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: SCOTUS appointments: Sotomayor and Kagan

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Donald Trump

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Name the President: First lady: Hillary Rodham

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Father was President, grandfather signed the declaration

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Benjamin Harrison

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Name the President: Known for “Square Deal” domestic policies

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Woodrow Wilson

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Virginia

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Herbert Hoover

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Iowa

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Name the President: First Supreme Commander of NATO

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Born: Leslie Lynch King Jr

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Gerald Ford

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Name the President: First President born in the Baby Boomer generation

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Barack Obama

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Illinois

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding

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Ohio

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Name the President: First lady: Betty Bloomer

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Gerald Ford

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Name the President: Marred by Iran-Contra Affair (Oliver North took the blame)

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Ronald Reagan

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Name the President: Led a commission many years after leaving office to suggest changes to the executive branch

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Herbert Hoover

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Bush

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Texas

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Name the President: Began construction on the Panama Canal

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Signed the Formosa Resolution, recognizing Taiwan as free

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court

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George W. Bush

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Name the President: Established NATO

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: First lady: Mamie Doud

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Dealt with but did not free the Iran Hostages

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Jimmy Carter

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Name the President: First wife and daughter died in car crash

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Joe Biden

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Name the President: Centrist “third way” polices, a New Democrat

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Preached a “return to normalcy”

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Policy: The Great Society

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Name the President: Administration was marked by interventions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo and efforts to facilitate peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Contributed to the end of McCarthyism

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Survived an assassination attempt from John Hinckley Jr. 66 days into Presidency

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Ronald Reagan

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Name the President: First lady: Eleanor

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Negotiated armistice with China, which still remains in effect today

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: First Lady: Nancy Davis (Prev married to Jane Wyman)

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Ronald Reagan

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Name the President: Presidency saw the beginning of the Korean War

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: Undertook the development of the Interstate Highway System

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Created NASA

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Started the FDIC

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Implemented the Marshall Plan

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: President of the Teapot Dome bribery scandal

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Signed the ADA

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George H. W. Bush

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Name the President: Warren Commission to investigate his death

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Proposed, but did not sign into law, NAFTA

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George H. W. Bush

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Name the President: Shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist

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William McKinley

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Name the President: Herbert Hoover was his commerce secretary (not Harding)

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Calvin Coolidge

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Name the President: Wrote “The Naval War of 1812”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, George H.W. Bush

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Massachusetts

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Name the President: First lady: Florence Kling

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Warren G. Harding

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Name the President: Attended Paris Peace Conference

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Woodrow Wilson

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Name the President: Launched the War on Terror

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George W. Bush

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Name the President: New Look policy

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Name the President: Blamed economic downturn on Mexicans and forced many of them to leave the US

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Herbert Hoover

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Name the President: First lady: Jill Jacobs (Prev. married to Neilia Hunter)

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Joe Biden

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Name the President: Led US into WWI

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Woodrow Wilson

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Name the President: First lady: Melania Knauss (Prev. married to Marla Maples and Ivana Zelníčková)

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Donald Trump

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Name the President: First Democrat to be re-elected after FDR

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Bill Clinton

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Name the President: Created Medicare and Medicaid

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Name the President: Only President to also serve as Cheif Justice

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William Howard Taft

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Bill Clinton

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Arkansas

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Name the President: Led a coalition of 35 nations during the Gulf War to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait

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George H. W. Bush

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Name the President: Born in Stonewall Texas

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: New Frontier domestic policies

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Youngest person to be President (not elected)

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Held office during the onset of the Great Depression

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Herbert Hoover

125
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Name the President: Impeached yet acquitted on counts of perjury

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Bill Clinton

126
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Name the President: First lady: Grace Goodhue

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Calvin Coolidge

127
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Name the President: Built the New Deal

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

128
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Name the President: First Lady: Claudia Taylor

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Lyndon B. Johnson

129
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Name the President: First southener to win Presidential election since 1848

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Woodrow Wilson

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Name the President: First Ladies: Ellen Axson and Edith Bolling

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Woodrow Wilson

131
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Name the President: Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

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Richard Nixon

132
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Name the President: Began the War on Drugs

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Richard Nixon

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Name the President: Often associated with the prosperity of the roaring twenties

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Calvin Coolidge

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Name the President: Started the SEC

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: His first wife and mother died on the same night

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Name the President: Owned a haberdashery in Kansas City before taking office

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Harry S. Truman

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Name the President: Won a Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”

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John F. Kennedy

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Name the President: Conceptualized the League of Nations, which was included in the Treaty of Versailles

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Woodrow Wilson

139
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Name the President: First lady: Barbara Pierce

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George H. W. Bush

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Donald Trump

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New York

141
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Name the President: Led the Rough Riders in Cuba

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Theodore Roosevelt

142
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Name the President: Final President to have served in the Civil War

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William McKinley

143
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Name the President: First Lady: Ida Saxton

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William McKinley

144
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Name the President: First Lady: Michelle Robinson

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Barack Obama

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Gerald Ford

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Michigan

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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Jimmy Carter

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Georgia

147
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Name the President: Presided over the invasion of Panama

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George H. W. Bush

148
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Name the President: Signed NAFTA into law

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Bill Clinton

149
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Name the President: Established the Department of Energy and the Department of Education

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Jimmy Carter

150
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Name the President: Attended the Yalta Conference

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Name the President: Presided over the end of prohibition

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

152
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Name the President: Name the state these Presidents are from: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan

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California

153
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Name the President: First lady: Bess Wallace

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Harry S. Truman

154
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Name the President: First lady: Rosalynn Smith

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Jimmy Carter

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Name the President: Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Name the President: Only person to be President without recieving a vote

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Gerald Ford

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