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THE presidents Book Puzzles, games, and trivia for hours of presidential fun! Brian Thornton Adams Media Avon, Massachusetts
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Contents Introduction vi Chapter 1: The Founding Presidents (1789 1817) George Washington: The First President (1789 1797) 2 John Adams: The Second President (1797 1801) 6 Thomas Jefferson: The Third President (1801 1809) 10 James Madison: The Fourth President (1809 1817) 13 Chapter 2: Moving West (1817 1841) James Monroe: The Fifth President (1817 1825) 16 John Quincy Adams: The Sixth President (1825 1829) 18 Andrew Jackson: The Seventh President (1829 1837) 21 Martin Van Buren: The Eighth President (1837 1841) 24 Chapter 3: War With Mexico (1841 1850) William Henry Harrison: The Ninth President (1841) 28 John Tyler: The Tenth President (1841 1845) 31 James K. Polk: The Eleventh President (1845 1849) 34 Zachary Taylor: The Twelfth President (1849 1850) 36 Chapter 4: Slavery and the Civil War (1850 1865) Millard Fillmore: The Thirteenth President (1850 1853) 40 Franklin Pierce: The Fourteenth President (1853 1857) 42 James Buchanan: The Fifteenth President (1857 1861) 44 Abraham Lincoln: The Sixteenth President (1861 1865) 47 Chapter 5: Reconstruction of the South (1865 1881) Andrew Johnson: The Seventeenth President (1865 1869) 52 Ulysses Simpson Grant: The Eighteenth President (1869 1877) 55 Rutherford B. Hayes: The Nineteenth President (1877 1881) 59 James A. Garfield: The Twentieth President (1881) 61 iii
Chapter 6: The Gilded Age (1881 1901) Chester A. Arthur: The Twenty-first President (1881 1885) 64 Grover Cleveland: The Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth President (1885 1889 and 1893 1897) 68 Benjamin Harrison: The Twenty-third President (1889 1893) 71 William McKinley: The Twenty-fifth President (1897 1901) 72 Chapter 7: The Dawn of a New Century (1901 1929) Theodore Roosevelt: The Twenty-sixth President (1901 1909) 76 William Howard Taft: The Twenty-seventh President (1909 1913) 79 Thomas Woodrow Wilson: The Twenty-eighth President (1913 1921) 81 Warren G. Harding: The Twenty-ninth President (1921 1923) 84 Calvin Coolidge: The Thirtieth President (1923 1929) 86 Chapter 8: The Great Depression and More War (1929 1961) Herbert Clark Hoover: The Thirty-first President (1929 1933) 90 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Thirty-second President (1933 1945) 93 Harry S Truman: The Thirty-third President (1945 1953) 96 Dwight David Eisenhower: The Thirty-fourth President (1953 1961) 99 Chapter 9: The Cold War and Vietnam (1961 1981) John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Thirty-fifth President (1961 1963) 102 Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Thirty-sixth President (1963 1969) 106 Richard Milhous Nixon: The Thirty-seventh President (1969 1974) 108 Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.: The Thirty-eighth President (1974 1977) 110 James Earl Carter: The Thirty-ninth President (1977 1981) 112 Chapter 10: The End of the Century (1981 2006) Ronald Wilson Reagan: The Fortieth President (1981 1989) 116 George Herbert Walker Bush: The Forty-first President (1989 1993) 119 William Jefferson (Blythe) Clinton: The Forty-second President (1993 2001) 122 George W. Bush: The Forty-third President (2001 ) 125 Appendix A: Glossary 128 Appendix B: Puzzle Solutions 130 iv