Presidents of the United States

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This president ____ was playing Poker when he learned he was to be president.
To end World War II, this president made the difficult decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. Thousands of people died in the total destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus saving many thousands of Allied servicemen when Japan surrendered a few days later.
This vice president became the thirty-third president when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Georgia.

 

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This president is called the Father of the American Navy because he took a personal interest in modernizing and expanding it.
This president was born on October 5, 1829.
During this president's term, the first laws to regulate child labor and improve working conditions were passed.

 

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At this president's request, he was buried wrapped in an American flag and with a copy of the Constitution beneath his head.
During this president's term, the Thirteenth Amendment was added to officially free the slaves.
During this president's term, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published.

 

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This president was the first president to have been an Eagle Scout.
This president was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
This president had two attempts on his life in California during the month of September 1975 - both attempts by women.

 

5.  

As a boy he dreamed of becoming a sailor.
He was the 20th President of the United States.
He was the first president to campaign in two languages -- English and German.

 

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His vice president was James S. Sherman.
He supported the income-tax amendment to the Constitution.
Twice as many lawsuits were brought against trusts in his administration than in Roosevelt's.

 

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The United States bought Florida from Spain during this president's term.
This president wrote a government policy that warned the European countries not to start any new colonies in the Americas - called the ____ Doctrine.
In the election of 1820, this president received every electoral vote except one.

 

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This president was the first to visit communist China.
This man became the president of the United States in 1969.
This president suffered from motion sickness and hayfever.

 

 

Across

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He asked that California be granted immediate statehood.
He enlisted in the army at the age of 22 and served for almost 40 years.
After 40 years in the army, he reached the rank of Major General.

 

3.  

He sent federal troops into South Carolina when South Carolina tried to nullify federal tariff laws.
He joined the army at the age of 13 to fight the British in the Revolution.
His face was scarred permanently when a British officer slapped him across his cheek with a sword.

 

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During this president's term, the brown paper bag was invented.
This man was the thirteenth president of the United States.
This president had the first bathtub installed in the White House.

 

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He carried a pistol that he promised to give to any man uglier than he was.
This president was the first to die by assassination.
He favored generosity and kindness toward the defeated states of the Confederacy.

 

10.  

Abigail Smith married this president when he was 29 years old.
This president was very important in getting France and Holland (now the Netherlands) to recognize the United States as an independent nation during the Revolutionary War.
This president was one of the town attorneys who argued the legality of the Stamp Act.

 

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This president was one of three presidents to graduate from a military academy; he went to West Point.
During this president's term, the P.T. Barnum's circus "The Greatest Show on Earth," opened.
At the beginning of the Civil War, this president was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. The rise from clerk to General of the Armies, to President of the United States in seven years, was an unprecedented feat of accomplishment.

 

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With this president, the first one born in June, presidents have been born in every month.
This president was the head of the CIA from 1976 to 1977.
This president was President Ronald Reagan's vice president for eight years.

 

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Many federal programs he put in place to help the nation recover from the Great Depression are still in existence today.
This president is famous for the quote, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
In his third term, World War II dominated his activities.

 

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During this president's first term, Coca-Cola was first produced in Atlanta, Georgia.
During this president's first term, Geronimo surrendered, ending the fighting between the United States and the Apache Indians.
He was governor of New York prior to becoming president.

 

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He was active in the American Colonization Society, a movement to resettle freed American slaves in Liberia.
He was the last member of the Founding fathers to die.
He has been called the "Father of the United States Bill of Rights."

 

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This man was the only United States president who didn't live in ____, D.C. - because it wasn't built yet.
This president died one year before the White House was completed.
This president was a leader in the movement that led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

 

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This president died on April 4, 1841.
This man was the only president to have been born in the same county as his vice president, Charles City County.
This man was inaugurated into the presidency on March 4, 1841 - one month before he died of pneumonia.

 

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During this president's term, the first bulldozer was invented.
This president refused to use the telephone while he was in office.
This president had an electronic horse installed in the White House that he rode almost every day.

 

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Since this president did not have a wife, he asked his niece, Miss Harriet Lane, to serve as White House hostess.
He sent a note to newly elected Abe Lincoln saying, "My dear sir, if you are as happy on entering the White House as I on leaving, you are a happy man indeed."
He felt that slavery was morally wrong but that it would be worse to free the slaves.

 

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During this president's term in office, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam became American islands after the Spanish-American War.
After being shot, this president saw the shooter being beaten to the ground, he then cried, "Don't let them hurt him!"
This man became the twenty-fifth president of the United States on March 4, 1897.