Who was president when the events listed took place?
| 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James Polk 12. Zachary Taylor |
#1-12: “Our country, right or wrong” was included in a toast offered by Stephen Decatur at a Virginia dinner commemorating his success against the Barbary Coast pirates twelve years earlier. |
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#13-24: My party bypassed me and nominated General Winfield Scott as its presidential candidate. |
13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford Hayes 20. James Garfield 21. Chester A. Arthur 22. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland |
| 25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt 27. William Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin Roosevelt 33. Harry Truman 34. Dwight Eisenhower |
#25-34: I vetoed statehood for Arizona because its constitution permitted the recall of judges, which I considered a threat to the independence of the judiciary. After removing this provision, Arizona was admitted to the Union. Then, the state restored the provision. |
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#35-44: Six people were killed and more than a thousand suffered injuries after a bomb planted under the World Trade Center in New York City exploded.. |
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35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Richard Nixon 38. Gerald Ford 39. Jimmy Carter 40. Ronald Reagan 41. George H.W. Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama |
Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2012-13.