- 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 The overland gold rush to California through Fort Laramie, Wyoming, involved 42,300 emigrants and 9,720 wagons over a six-month period. New Mexico, hoping to become a state, formed its own state government. The assembly that set up the government banned slavery in the territory./p>
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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 |
#13-24 The Ku Klux Klan formulated its revised constitution, which declared that the organization was to be guided by chivalry, humanity, mercy, and patriotism. A severe earthquake rocked San Francisco, causing $3,000,000 in property damages.
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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 The first successful transatlantic wireless transmission was made from a transmitter at Manhattan Beach in New York City to Lee De Forest at a receiving station in Ireland. DeForest had invented the triode tube, which made wireless communication possible. Oklahoma was admitted to the union as the 46th state.
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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 I signed the Family Medical Leave Act that requires companies to provide workers with up to three months of unpaid leave for family and medical emergencies. The U.S. Navy fired 23 tomahawk missiles on Iraqi intelligence operations in downtown Baghdad after learning that Iraqis had plotted to kill my predecessor during his visit to Kuwait.
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