- 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 I became the first “Dark Horse” to be nominated for president. My election changed the party in control of the White House. While I lived in the White House, the Great Irish Potato Famine led to the death of over one million people in Ireland and the emigration of another million people from Ireland to the New World.
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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 Both my grandfathers fought in the American Revolution. I was born eleven weeks after my father died. I studied law before attending Harvard Law School. I became the first president to visit the West Coast while in office.
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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 I had the good fortune of becoming the first president to earn $100,000 per year. The term “Fat Man” had special meaning while I lived in the White House. The term “Iron Curtain” was coined during my administration.
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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 I was the first president who had been a model in my younger years. The term “stagflation” was widely used during my administration. It referred to a combination of economic stagnation and inflation. North and South Vietnam became one nation under Communist control.
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