1. Game Know Your Presidents U.S. President
Can you name that President??
U.S. President
From Reconstruction to Present

2. President when 9/11 happened Began the War on Terrorism
The hunt for Bin Laden
George W. Bush
Criticized for how he handled 9/11, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina
Signed into law broad tax cuts, the PATRIOT Act and the No Child Left Behind Act

3. Signed the North American Free Trade Agreement
Lowest unemployment rate, the lowest inflation, the highest home ownership, dropping crime rates, and reduced welfare rolls lead to a time of prosperity
First Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term
William (Bill) Clinton
Signed the North American Free Trade Agreement
1998, was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice during a lawsuit against him, both related to a
scandal involving a White House intern He was impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the U.S. Senate and served his complete term of office.

4. “the business of the American people is business"
Restore the dignity and prestige of the Presidency when it had reached the lowest ebb in our history
Although his nick name was Silent Cal he was the first president to make a public radio address to the American people.
Calvin Coolidge
“the business of the American people is business"
His laissez-faire ideology led to the Great Depression

5. President at the start of the Great Depression
Blamed for this crisis
Criticized me for believing charities and local groups should help people in need instead of the government.
Herbert Hoover
Bonus Army
Hoovervilles or Shantytowns sprang up around the nation

6. First Catholic president
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
New Frontier hope for the future
The Bay of Pigs in Cuba made me appear weak
John F. Kennedy
Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the edge of a nuclear war Khrushchev turned is ships around.
Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
Established the Peace Corps

7. Bill Clinton defeated me in my bid for re-election in 1992.
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Read My Lips!
No New Taxes!
George H Bush
Sent American troops to the Persian Gulf to stop Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
Bill Clinton defeated me in my bid for re-election in 1992.

8. The Great Depression Americans “have nothing to fear but fear itself”
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alphabet agencies tried to help the country out of the depression
Elected president 4 times
President during World War II
Died during WW II.

9. Promised a “return to normalcy” after World War I
The Teapot Dome Scandal scarred his administration
Warren Harding
Mystery surrounds his death

10. Progressive Era President
Trust Buster Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Food and Drug Act of 1906 because of the book The Jungle by Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
He was both a conservationist and a preservationist. He set aside land for National Parks.
Started work on the Panama Canal

11. Supreme Allied commander during WW II
President after the war
Faced the Era of McCarthyism
"massive retaliation“ would use the A bomb if necessary
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ended the Korean War
Passed the Interstate Highway Act of
Sent troops to Little Rock to enforce desegregation
Responded to Sputnik by creating NASA in 1958

12. First president from Texas Great Society War on Poverty
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution let him escalate the U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Did not run for 2nd term

13. President at the height of the Vietnam War
Reduced the number of American soldiers in Vietnam, and introduced Vietnamization
Richard Nixon
First American president to visit China.
“I am not a crook,”
Forced to resign because of the Watergate Scandal.

14. First African American President in US History
Won a Nobel Peace Prize the first year in office
Barrack Obama
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 known as the Stimulus or The Recovery Act, was an economic stimulus package of $787 Billion
Obama care

15. Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Became president during World War II
Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Maintained the bomb brought a quick end to the war and save both American and Japanese lives.
Harry Truman
Used containment policies such as the Marshall Plan to stop the spread of communism.
Fired General MacArthur during the Korean War

16. Helped pass of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments.
Told Congress we must “Make the world safe for democracy” when he asked for war.
Woodrow Wilson
President during WW I
He proposed the Fourteen Points
Failed to get the U.S. to sign the League of Nations.

17. President during the Spanish American War
Spain ceded Puerto, Guam and the Philippines to the United States
William McKinley
Supported the Open Door Policy
T. Roosevelt became President when he
was assassinated.

18. Gave control of the Panama Canal to Panama
Boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Supported Human Rights around the world
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords peace between Egypt and Israeli
Iranian Hostage Crisis ruined his re-election bid.

19. President after Nixon resigned
Only president of the US who was not elected as Vice President or President
Gerald Ford
Was president during the Bicentennial or 200th birthday of America
Pardoned Nixon

20. Movie star turned president
increased military spending causing the end of the Cold War
Ronald Reagan
supported tax cuts for the wealthy called “trickle down” economics
Reaganomics.

21. Theodore Roosevelt’s handpicked presidential successor
Dollar Diplomacy
William Taft
Progressive Party "Bull Moose", split the Republican vote causing his defeat in the presidential election of 1912