It’s President’s Day, so circle your answer and see how you do on this test.
23 questions for 2023
Arlington National Cemetery was established during the Civil War after the land the cemetery was built upon, Arlington Estate, was confiscated from the private ownership of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee’s family following a tax dispute.How many president’s have been buried there?
A) 2C) 4C) 5
Answer: A) William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Which president’s first wife and mother died on the same night?
A) Calvin CoolidgeB) Thomas JeffersonC) Theodore Roosevelt
Answer: C) Roosevelt’s wife, Alice, died two days after giving birth to their daughter from kidney failure. His mother died 11 hours earlier of typhoid fever in the same house in Manhattan.
Executive Order 9981 desegregated the military. Who was the president that signed that order?
A) Franklin D. RooseveltB) Harry S. TrumanC) Dwight Eisenhower
Answer: B) Truman signed the order on July 16, 1948. The order said, “There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.”
How many of the 46 presidents owned enslaved people?
A) 8B) 10C) 12
Answer: C) According to whitehousehistory.org, at least 12 presidents were slave owners at some point during their lives: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant.
What president signed the Civil Rights Act into law?
A) John F. KennedyB) Lyndon JohnsonC) Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer: B) The act, signed into law by Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since…
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