History: Assignments
Know Your US Presidents!
Here's what you do:
- Get a lot of paper.
- There are 43 Presidents. I need info on terms each president served, who his vice-president(s) was (were), his marital status, religious affiliation, state of origin, political party affiliation, and from 6-10 blank lines to cover big events during his administration.
- You know, you might want to type this up.
- Info on the Presidential term, VP, marital status, religion, state, and party can all go on one or two lines after the President's name.
- The events to match up with the presidents are listed below. You need to put them with the proper president and find out what year or years the event covered. You'll also have to put down a note about the significance of the event, so that's why you need the extra space for them.
When you're finished, it should follow this format for each president:
L. Dean Webb
Term: 1993-1997; VP: Joe Bleaux; married, 3 children; religion unknown; Texas; Libertarian
Lettuce Scandal (1993) Aides convicted of lettuce smuggling
“Pineapple” Speech (1993) Famous speech where he demanded free pineapple for all Americans
Treaty of Poughkeepsie (1994) Established international freedom of pizzas; ends Pepperoni War (1987-1994) between USA and Italy
Mongol Invasion (1995) Led nation in defeating Mongol hordes
Stupidity Epidemic (1996) America swept by terrible test scores
The whole mess is due at the end of the six weeks. See your syllabus for actual due date. Get busy. I want these typed. Enjoy.
Historical Events
Match these up with the proper president, note what year they happened in, and what was significant about the event. Some of these may go with more than one president, so watch out! You'll have to do some research to find out the info on these babies…
- 19th Amendment
- Aaron Burr
- Abominable Tarrifs
- Afghanistan Invasion
- Alaska Purchase
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Annexation of Texas
- Aristide returned to power in Haiti
- Asian Financial collapse
- Aslam P. Adam Pardon
- Barbary Pirates
- Bay of Pigs
- "Black Codes"
- Beirut bombing
- Bosnia involvement
- Boxer Rebellion
- California Gold Rush
- Camp David Accords
- Caroline Affair
- Castro's takeover of Cuba
- Charles Julius Guiteau
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Church Committee
- CIA assassination of Patrice Lumumba
- CIA backing of Afghan rebels
- CIA backs Savimbi in Angola
- CIA coup in Greece
- CIA coup in Zaire
- CIA Involvement in Vietnam
- CIA overthrow of Australian government
- CIA overthrow of Bolivian government
- CIA Overthrow of Brazillian government
- CIA overthrow of Cambodian government
- CIA overthrow of Chilean government
- CIA Overthrow of Dominican Republic government
- CIA Overthrow of Ecuadorian government
- CIA Overthrow of Guatemalan government
- CIA Overthrow of Haitian government
- CIA Overthrow of Haitian government (again)
- CIA Overthrow of Indonesian government
- CIA Overthrow of Iranian government
- CIA Overthrow of Laotian government
- CIA support of Saddam Hussein
- Citizen Genet
- Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Service Reform
- Civil War
- Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
- Collapse of South Vietnam
- Collapse of USSR
- Commodore Perry and Japan
- Compromise of 1850
- Compromise of 1877
- Copperheads
- "Corrupt Bargain"
- Court-Packing Plan
- Coxey's Army
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Dawes Act
- Dawes Plan
- Deficit Elimination
- Depression of 1893
- Dept. Of Homeland Security
- Deregulation
- Desegregation of Military
- Detente
- Died within a month of taking office
- Dingley Act
- Dollar Diplomacy
- "Dollar-a-Year Men" and the Truman Commission
- Dominican Republic involvement
- Draft Riots
- Dred Scott Decision
- El Salvador involvement
- "Eleventh-Hour Pardons"
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Embargo Act of 1807
- End of Reconstruction
- End of Vietnam War
- Energy Crisis
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Falklands War
- Federal Highway System
- Federal Highways & Canals
- Federal Reserve Act
- Filipino Revolt
- First Bank of the United States
- First Income Tax
- First Seminole War
- Formation of the KKK
- French Occupation of Mexico
- Fries' Rebellion
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Gadsden Purchase
- GATT
- Gold Panic of 1869
- Gold Standard Act
- Goldwater and the 1964 election
- "Good Neighbor" Policy
- Gramm-Rudman Act
- Great Depression
- Great Society policies
- Great White Fleet
- Grenada invasion
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Gunboat Diplomacy
- Haiti Occupation
- Helsinki Accords
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings
- Immigrant Quota Act of 1921
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Imperialism
- Impressment
- Indian Resettlement
- Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
- Interstate Highway Act
- Iran-Contra Pardons
- Iran-Contra Scandal
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Iraqi Crisis
- J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
- Japanese-American Internment
- Jay Treaty
- John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
- John Wilkes Booth
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Korean War
- League of Nations
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Leon Czolgosz
- Lewinsky Affair
- Libyan involvement
- Little Big Horn
- "Log Cabin" Bill
- Louisiana Purchase
- MacArthur's Insubordination
- Man Walks on the Moon
- "Manifest Destiny"
- Maria Helpin Affair
- Marshall Plan
- Mayaguez Incident
- McCarthyism
- Meat Inspection Act
- Mexican War
- "Midnight Judges"
- Missouri Compromise
- Monroe Doctrine
- Mormon War
- NAFTA
- National Park System
- National Recovery Administration
- National Security Act
- Nationalized Health Care
- New Deal
- "New World Order"
- Nicaraguan intervention
- Nicaraguan intervention (again)
- Nullification
- "October Surprise"
- Open Door Policy
- Operation PAPERCLIP
- Oscar Romero's appeal to Carter
- Palmer Raids
- Panama Independence
- Panama invasion
- Panic of 1837
- Pardon of Nixon
- Peace Corps
- Peggy Eaton Affair
- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
- Pentagon Papers
- Pershing in Mexico
- Persian Gulf War
- Potsdam Conference
- Price Controls
- Prohibition
- Pullman Strike
- Quasi-War with France
- Radical Reconstruction
- Railroad Strike of 1877
- Ramparts Affair
- "Read My Lips..."
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Red Scare
- Repeal of Prohibition
- Return of Panama Canal
- Richard A. Ballinger
- Roe v. Wade
- Roosevelt Corrollary
- Roscoe Conkling
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- Sally Hemmings
- SALT I
- SALT II
- Santo Domingo Annexation
- Savings & Loan Scandal
- Scopes Trial
- Secession
- Second Bank of the United States
- Second Seminole War
- "Secret Bombing" of Cambodia
- “Share Our Wealth” Movement
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Sherman Silver Purchasing Act
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Smoot-Hawley Act
- Social Security Act of 1935
- Somalia involvement
- Spanish-American War
- Spiro Agnew
- Spoils system
- Sputnik
- Stagflation
- Star Route Scandal
- "Star Wars"
- START treaties
- Stimson Doctrine
- Stock Market Crash
- Tammany Hall
- Teapot Dome
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Tet Offensive
- The Ohio Gang
- Trail of Tears
- Trans-Continental Railroad
- Treaty of Ghent
- Treaty of Greenville
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Truman Doctrine
- United Nations
- Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
- Veracruz Incident
- Veterans Bonus Act
- Vince Foster's Death
- "Wag the Dog" Military Actions
- War of 1812
- War on Drugs
- War Powers Act
- Warren Commission
- Washington Conference
- Watergate
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Whiskey Ring
- Whitewater
- William W. Belknap Scandal
- William Walker
- Wilmont Proviso
- Works Progress Administration
- World Trade Center Bombings
- World War I
- World War II
- Wright Brothers' First Flight
- XYZ Affair
- Yalta Conference