- Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2017-18.
- President #45 will be added for Junior/Senior.
- The theme for 2017-2018 in all divisions is First Ladies.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Election Opponents. Also, Junior/Senior clues for #1-24 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 1: Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Lucretia Mott, Sitting Bull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tecumseh, and Sojourner Truth.
Identify the president from events in his time in office.
| 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 James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans was published. Discord between North and South over tariffs increased when I signed into law what became known as the Tariff of Abominations.
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| 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./24. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison |
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| 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 During my first campaign for the presidency, I promised to reform the U.S. banking system. In my first year in the White House, the Owen-Glass Act became law. It set up the Federal Reserve System. The act established a central Federal Reserve Board and a dozen regional banks.
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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 45. Donald Trump |
#35-45 In my first year as president, I received the Nobel Peace Prize for my “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” A few months later, I pledged $100,000,000 to assist Haiti in recovering from a devastating earthquake.
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A labor rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square was breaking up when a large force of police arrived. A bomb exploded among them, killing seven officers and wounding about 60. Anarchists were blamed and eight leaders of the rally were arrested and later found guilty.