Presidents Quiz – January 2021

  • 19 May, 2021
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For 2020-21, the Presidents groupings are as follows:

  • El/Mid: Group B #16-#33 (#16-#24 in the first round, #25-#33 in the second round)
  • Jr/Sr: Group B #16-#33 in the first round, Group C #28-#45 in the second round

The themes are all divisions will be Occupations and Posts, and Jr/Sr also plays Immigration.

Identify the president who was in office when each event occurred.
Presidents Group B
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland

#16-#24

  1. Following pay cuts, the first major interstate strike began on the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) railroad line. Additional strikes followed, lasting a month. These were the first major interstate strikes in the U.S. I sent federal troops to protect mail and put down the riots that took place in numerous cities.

  2. I invited Theodore Roosevelt to the White House and appointed him Civil Service Commissioner.

  3. I appointed William L. Sharkey the provisional governor of Mississippi. Over the next few weeks, I also appointed provisional governors for Georgia, Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida.

 
Identify the president who was in office when each event occurred.
Presidents Group B
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

#25-#33

  1. The United States Navy took control of the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

  2. Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, officially ending the “noble experiment” of prohibition in the U.S.

  3. Construction of the Empire State Building in New York City began. At the time, the 102-story building was the tallest in the world.

 
Identify the president who was in office when each event occurred.
Presidents Group C
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon 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
45. Donald Trump

#34-#45

  1. The People’s Liberation Army, the military arm of the Chinese government, used tanks and armored cars to suppress a pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

  2. I lifted the grain embargo imposed on the Soviet Union by my predecessor.

  3. I sent U.S. marines to the Dominican Republic to protect U.S. citizens after a military coup and the resulting civil war.

 

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