Internet Assignment: Presidency http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

NAME___Brent Hardy________________ DATE____12-01-02__________________

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1. Which former President declared the Americas no longer subject to European colonization?
 James Monroe

2. Who was the first President to die in office? The rumor goes that he caught a cold giving his long inaugural speech.
 William Henry Harrison

3. Which President extended the Nations boundaries to the shores of the Pacific?
 James K. Polk

4. Which President was the first Chief Executive born under the U.S. flag? Jackson referred to him as a "true man without no guile".
 James Monroe

5. Who was the 2^nd President to die from an assassin's bullet in office? His doctor tried to find the bullet with a metal detector but forgot to remove him from his metal bed.
 James Garfield

6. The only President, after leaving office, to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It took a big man to fill both offices.
 William Howard Taft

7. Under this President, the U.S. gained its first overseas possession when it annexed the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.

  William McKinley

8. This President was famous for saying little. At a Dinner party, a guest made a bet that she could get the President to say more than two words, his response when told of the wager, "You Lose".
 Calvin Coolidge

9. Which President had a putting green installed on the White House lawn and in clear military form, banished all the squirrels from the grounds?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

10. Which President championed human rights throughout the world?
 Jimmy Carter

11. If you had to create a fast fact on President Bush what would it be?

   This President lost the popular election to Al Gore, but carried the contested state of Florida to become the st President of the United States