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    Hah!

    I got all 46 presidents correct! I also know the party affiliation and policies of all but the most obscure ones! I got the assasinated presidents correct too: Lincoln, Kennedy and Reagan. There was an attempt on Theodore Roosevelt too, but he survived. Because of it though, he had to lead America through WWI in a wheelchair.




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    That was much harder than I thought it woud be. Got 27. I shall have to brush up on my US presidents. I could somewhat easily fill in the first handful, and all presidents from Herbert Hoover. The century in between is like one big blank.
    If it were multiple choice, I could've correctly picked from a list of names many of whom had been a president and who weren't, but not off the top of my head.

    Some - Filmore, Tyler, Polk, Harrison, McKinley - I had never even heard of. I also got one Johnson for free. I never knew there had been another president Johnson in the 19th century.

    Also, the second quiz that gets ruined for me not knowing which presidents have been assissinated.
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    Some - Filmore, Tyler, Polk, Harrison, McKinley - I had never even heard of. I also got one Johnson for free. I never knew there had been another president Johnson in the 19th century.
    I think the presidents just weren't that influential in that time...the us was a bit isolationist, the office wasn't as powerful, and the standard of the time was that they kept quiet. That's what I remember from history class anyway.

    Polk had something to do with oregon and settling to the west or the mexican war or alaska or something...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    I think the presidents just weren't that influential in that time...the us was a bit isolationist, the office wasn't as powerful, and the standard of the time was that they kept quiet. That's what I remember from history class anyway.

    Polk had something to do with oregon and settling to the west or the mexican war or alaska or something...
    Alaska - is that president McKinley, of the mountain of the same name?

    If for nothing else, he deserves to be remembered for buying Alaska. Me, I'd soooo rub it the Russians in. I'd have a massive billboard up, facing Russia, and counting in big neon letters the total oil exploration profits.
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    I never realized how many presidents have been pushed into the dustbins of history. I got 29.



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    all of them. I even included the two terms of Grover Cleveland

    I even know the presidents assassinated in order, as well as all who died in office in order:

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    Lmao, hell naw. But I can name my chiefs. They're more important.

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    Polk acquired the Oregon territory from Britain, got the entire southwest from Mexico during the Mexican War, and his predecessor took Polk's election as a sign that the U.S. wanted to add Texas to the Union so Texas was added shortly before Polk took office. Polk is by far the most underrated president. He was elected on an expansionist platform and nearly double the size of the U.S. in 4 years.

    McKinley didn't buy Alaska. I think that was Secretary of State Seward during the first Johnson administration. McKinley was in charge during the Spanish-American war.

    The presidents between Jackson and Lincoln (sans Polk) basically sat around twiddling their thumbs waiting for the country to fall into civil war. That's why no one remembers them. The reconstruction presidents sat around comparing their fancy facial hair and twiddling their thumbs as corruption and corporate powers pulled the levers of government. Teddy Roosevelt restored the power of the Presidency.
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    Benjamin Franklin was not President? 32/44

    I knew Coolidge, Hayes, van Buren, Polk, but forgot Ford, Taft and Jefferson.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    I also got one Johnson for free. I never knew there had been another president Johnson in the 19th century.
    Yep. Andrew Johnson. He was impeached for something, I forget what.
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    34. The ones that I missed that I really shouldn't have were James Monroe, James Garfield, and Ulysses S. Grant. The rest I would have never remembered without a refresher read.

    It's been 30+ years since I thought anything about most of these, so I guess I didn't do too bad considering, heh. Would have been fun to do this back when I was interested in such things.
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    22. Not bad for a non-American which dislikes American history.
    BLARGH!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
    Yep. Andrew Johnson. He was impeached for something, I forget what.
    yep, impeached for trying to Fire Stanton, the secretary of war.
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