- The theme for 2016-17 in all divisions is Presidential Firsts.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Foreign Affairs. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #25-44 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 2: Susan B. Anthony, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Huey Long, Gloria Steinem
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2016-17.
| 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 While I was president, the French Revolution sent shock waves across the Atlantic. When war broke out between France and Great Britain, I was determined to keep our nation neutral.
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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 My principal agenda in foreign policy was to oppose territorial expansion and entangling alliances. To those ends, I withdrew the U.S. from a treaty that gave us the right to construct a canal in Nicaragua that was to be owned jointly by the two nations. Also, I dispatched three warships to Samoa to keep Germany from installing a puppet monarch there.
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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 While I lived in the White House, women received the right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment. Federal income tax began with the creation of the Internal Revenue System. My image is on the $100,000 bill although it is no longer in circulation.
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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 |
#35-44 My father was a legislator in my native state. As a young boy, I liked to go with him when he was campaigning. As a young student, I told my friends that someday, I would be president of the United States.
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