{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/us-presidents-facts",
 "id": "us-presidents-facts",
 "title": "US Presidents: Facts and Firsts",
 "category": "history",
 "subject": "US History",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "What each president is known for, plus presidential firsts and facts.",
 "tags": [
  "presidents",
  "firsts"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Clue",
 "backLabel": "Answer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Led the Continental Army and was the first president",
   "George Washington"
  ],
  [
   "Second president; his son also became president",
   "John Adams"
  ],
  [
   "Wrote the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase",
   "Thomas Jefferson"
  ],
  [
   "Called the Father of the Constitution",
   "James Madison"
  ],
  [
   "Warned European nations away from the Americas in 1823",
   "James Monroe"
  ],
  [
   "Son of the second president, he was the sixth",
   "John Quincy Adams"
  ],
  [
   "Hero of the Battle of New Orleans; started the 'common man' era",
   "Andrew Jackson"
  ],
  [
   "Served only one month in 1841 and died",
   "William Henry Harrison"
  ],
  [
   "President during the Mexican-American War and the Oregon Treaty",
   "James K. Polk"
  ],
  [
   "Led the nation during the Civil War and signed the Emancipation Proclamation",
   "Abraham Lincoln"
  ],
  [
   "First president to be impeached by the House",
   "Andrew Johnson"
  ],
  [
   "Civil War general who became the 18th president",
   "Ulysses S. Grant"
  ],
  [
   "Shot in 1881 and died months later",
   "James A. Garfield"
  ],
  [
   "Only president to serve two separate terms",
   "Grover Cleveland"
  ],
  [
   "President when the Spanish-American War happened",
   "William McKinley"
  ],
  [
   "Youngest person to become president, at age 42",
   "Theodore Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Teddy bear was named after him",
   "Theodore Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Only person to be both president and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court",
   "William Howard Taft"
  ],
  [
   "Led the US in World War I and proposed the League of Nations",
   "Woodrow Wilson"
  ],
  [
   "President at the start of the Great Depression",
   "Herbert Hoover"
  ],
  [
   "Only president elected four times",
   "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Led the nation through the Depression and most of World War II",
   "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Ordered the atomic bombs used to end World War II",
   "Harry S. Truman"
  ],
  [
   "Supreme Allied commander in WWII who became president",
   "Dwight D. Eisenhower"
  ],
  [
   "Started the Interstate Highway System",
   "Dwight D. Eisenhower"
  ],
  [
   "Youngest person elected president, at age 43",
   "John F. Kennedy"
  ],
  [
   "First Catholic president",
   "John F. Kennedy"
  ],
  [
   "President during the Cuban Missile Crisis",
   "John F. Kennedy"
  ],
  [
   "Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964",
   "Lyndon B. Johnson"
  ],
  [
   "President when Americans first walked on the Moon",
   "Richard Nixon"
  ],
  [
   "Only president to resign from office",
   "Richard Nixon"
  ],
  [
   "Became president after Nixon resigned, without being elected president or vice president",
   "Gerald Ford"
  ],
  [
   "Peanut farmer from Georgia who became the 39th president",
   "Jimmy Carter"
  ],
  [
   "Former actor and California governor who became president in 1981",
   "Ronald Reagan"
  ],
  [
   "President when the Berlin Wall fell",
   "George H. W. Bush"
  ],
  [
   "President in the 1990s who was the 42nd",
   "Bill Clinton"
  ],
  [
   "Son of the 41st president, he became the 43rd",
   "George W. Bush"
  ],
  [
   "First Black president",
   "Barack Obama"
  ],
  [
   "Presidents' term length",
   "Four years"
  ],
  [
   "Maximum terms for a president",
   "Two elected terms, set by the 22nd Amendment (1951)"
  ],
  [
   "Minimum age to be president",
   "35 years old"
  ],
  [
   "Who becomes president if the president cannot serve?",
   "The vice president"
  ],
  [
   "The White House",
   "Home of the president at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC"
  ],
  [
   "First president to live in the White House",
   "John Adams"
  ],
  [
   "Camp David",
   "The president's country retreat in Maryland"
  ],
  [
   "Air Force One",
   "The airplane that carries the president"
  ],
  [
   "Oval Office",
   "The president's formal office in the White House"
  ],
  [
   "Electoral College",
   "The system of electors who formally choose the president"
  ],
  [
   "Inauguration",
   "Ceremony where a president takes the oath of office"
  ],
  [
   "Inauguration Day",
   "January 20 (since 1937)"
  ],
  [
   "Veto",
   "The president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress"
  ],
  [
   "Executive order",
   "A directive issued by the president that has the force of law"
  ],
  [
   "Commander in chief",
   "The president's role as head of the armed forces"
  ],
  [
   "Cabinet",
   "Leaders of major government departments who advise the president"
  ],
  [
   "First lady",
   "Title for the president's wife (so far); some have been active leaders"
  ],
  [
   "Eleanor Roosevelt",
   "First lady who held press conferences and wrote a newspaper column"
  ],
  [
   "Dolley Madison",
   "First lady known for hosting events and saving a portrait during the War of 1812"
  ],
  [
   "Abigail Adams",
   "First lady and trusted adviser to John Adams"
  ],
  [
   "First president born a US citizen rather than a British subject",
   "Martin Van Buren"
  ],
  [
   "Taller than most, 6 feet 4 inches",
   "Abraham Lincoln"
  ],
  [
   "Protected millions of acres as national forests, parks and monuments",
   "Theodore Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Mount Rushmore presidents",
   "Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln"
  ],
  [
   "President on the penny",
   "Abraham Lincoln"
  ],
  [
   "President on the nickel",
   "Thomas Jefferson"
  ],
  [
   "President on the dollar bill",
   "George Washington"
  ],
  [
   "President on the five-dollar bill",
   "Abraham Lincoln"
  ],
  [
   "President on the 50-dollar bill",
   "Ulysses S. Grant"
  ],
  [
   "President on the quarter",
   "George Washington"
  ],
  [
   "President on the dime",
   "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
  ],
  [
   "Born on the Fourth of July",
   "Calvin Coolidge"
  ],
  [
   "Died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration",
   "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams"
  ],
  [
   "Had a pet raccoon named Rebecca",
   "Calvin Coolidge"
  ],
  [
   "Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906",
   "Theodore Roosevelt"
  ]
 ]
}