Name That President (Lincoln - T. Roosevelt)
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softball42 on November 4, 2009
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What US President was that? (From Video Notes)
Plus other facts.
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42 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lincoln | Had a moderate position on slavery |
| Fort Sumter | Beginning of Civil War |
| Antietam | Lee's advance turned back (also bloodiest day of the war) |
| Not pearish from the earth | "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall..." (5 words) |
| Lincoln | Was taken to the house across the street after being shot |
| Johnson | Was on election ticket in 1864 to balance the ticket |
| Unacceptable | Johnson's lenient method for admitting the South back into the Union was viewed as... |
| Johnson | Which president purchased Alaska (from Russia) |
| Philedalphia Athletics | Won the 1866 baseball game |
| Grant | Born in Ohio |
| Grant | Attended West Point |
| Grant | Corruption engulfed his administration |
| Grant | Finished his memoir just before his death |
| Hayes | Most disputed election in American history |
| Hayes | Who's wife didn't serve alcohol in the White House? |
| Immigration | Raised the nation's population |
| Garfield | Won the narrow 1880 election |
| Garfield | Was shot by Charles Guiteau after only 4 months in office |
| Charles Guiteau | Shot Garfield |
| Arthur | Pendleton Act |
| Arthur | Was a competent president |
| Cleveland | Had a dirty campaign |
| Statue of Liberty | What did the US receive in 1886? |
| Cleveland | The only president to marry in the White House |
| Benjamin Harrison | Was the grandson of William Henry Harrison |
| Harrison | Called Indiana his home (actually from Ohio) |
| Wounded Knee | Battle between US and Indians in which the Indians lost their land |
| Buffalo Bill | American's favorite entertainer |
| Tariffs | Most important issue of the 1890s |
| The Great Depression | Economic crisis |
| Cleveland | Who was president during the Great Depression? |
| Cleveland | "I have tried so hard to do right." |
| Economy | Issue that dominated the 1896 election |
| Victorian | Elegant apperance, opulent, too much is better than not enough |
| Spanish-American War | US gets Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico |
| Assassinated | How did McKinley die? |
| McKinley | Was assissinated (after 1896) |
| Technology | What made America an industrial giant? |
| 76 million | What was the US population at the turn of the century? |
| Automobile | Revolutionized life during T. Rooselvelt's term |
| Panama | TR sent Marines where? |
| Roosevelt | Most popular president of all time |
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