Presidential+Fun+Facts+Term+2


 * Presidential & US Fun Facts**

Every term, you will each get 8 Presidential & US Fun Facts. It is your job to find the answers and then learn everyone else's facts as well for a test at the end of the term. You have the opportunity to get 2 test grades for this project: 1) for your answers to your questions; 2) for the test on all the facts. If you forget what your questions are, they are listed below. Good luck and have fun!! (Term 1)

1. What does the S stand for in Harry S. Truman? 2. Barack Obama is the 44th President but there actually have only been 43 Presidents. Why? 3. What Presidents were father and sons? 4. Who once save the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son at a train station? Describe what happened and explained why that was ironic? 5. What famous Confederate escaped capture during the Civil War by dressing in his wife's clothes? Why was he famous? 6. Which President’s wife was an expert equestrian and often rode alone to deliver messages to the troops?
 * Mickey **

1. Which President once worked as a fashion model? 2. Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop 3 assassinations. Explain. 3. What did Ulysses S. Grant die from? What did he do during his life that caused this? 4. Who is Victoria Woodhull? 5. A female reporter wanted to get an interview with this President but he refused because she was a woman. Every morning, he would swim naked in the Potomac River. One morning, she sat on his clothes and wouldn’t move until she got the interview. She did. Who was the President? 6. After his inauguration, this President went back to the house for dinner but there were no more seats left. No one offered him a seat but after a while, the wife of a Kentucky senator asked him if he wanted to sit. He nicely said no.
 * Amanda **

1. What did Franklin Pierce die from? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Which President did not know how to read, write and do math until his wife taught him? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Which President said, “I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business?” <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. This President raised a flock of sheep on the White House lawn. The sheep would cut the grass and the wool helped raise money for the Red Cross during World War I. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. This President wanted his servants in the White House to work but he didn’t want to see them. When he walked into a room, the maids would have to hide behind furniture or jump into closets so he wouldn’t see them. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Which President was paralyzed from polio? He served his Presidency in a wheelchair.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conrad **

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. At his inauguration, George Washington only had 1 tooth. At different times, he wore dentures. What were his dentures made of? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Which President was the 1st to survive an assassination attempt? An unemployed house painter, Richard Lawrence, fired a pistol at him but it misfired. The 2nd pistol did the same. He then ran after Lawrence and beat him with his cane. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Which President and his wife spoke Dutch at home? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Describe the incident the “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard.” <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Which President got his nomination for President late because he refused to accept any letters that had him pay postage due? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. After leaving office, who was so poor he was unable to pay a bill for $1.25 until he sold his corn crop?
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Naod **