Presidents' Day!!!

In 10th grade, our history teacher gave us a test with the following directions: "Record the first and last names of the presidents in order. Include an important fact about each president." Needless to say, I had to study like a mad man for this test. As Kaylee and I were pretty much the best study partners ever, we spent hours together finding important facts about each president, listening to songs about the order of the presidents, and making up mnemonic devices that would assist us in memorizing all of the (cough..useless..cough) information. I'm proud to say that I got 106% on that test, and that I have never again used that information in my life, unless I've relearned it in different classes. My dad asked Kaylee who #19 was every time he saw her...he probably would still ask her if he ever saw her now. As a shout out to the wonderful holiday coming up, one that is worthwhile mostly because it gives us a day off of school, I will now share with you all of the presidents in order and one important fact about them or their presidency. (Feel free to stop reading now. This whole post is incredibly boring.)

1. George Washington - General in Revolutionary War
2. John Adams - Alien Sedition Act
3. Thomas Jefferson - Louisiana Purchase
   
4. James Madison - War of 1812
5. James Monroe - Monroe Doctrine
6. John Quincy Adams - First father/son presidency
7. Andrew Jackson - Indian Removal Act of 1830
8. Martin van Buren - Independent Treasury Act of 1840
9. William Henry Harrison - Shortest term, died 31 days after inaugural speech
   
10. John Tyler - Signed annexation of Texas and Florida
11. James K. Polk - Mexican War
12. Zachary Taylor - 2nd president to die in office
13. Millard Fillmore - signed California into the U. S. as a free state
14. Franklin Pierce - Purchased Arizona and parts of New Mexico
15. James Buchanan - Bachelor
16. Abraham Lincoln - Civil War, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
17. Andrew Johnson - First president to be impeached
18. Ulysses S. Grant - U. S. general during Civil War
19. Rutherford B. Hayes - Banned liquor and wine from the White House
20. James A. Garfield - Assassinated 100 days after inauguration
21. Chester A. Arthur - Pendleton Acts (protected people from losing their jobs because of their political background)
22. Grover Cleveland - First president married in the White House
23. Benjamin Harrison - Sherman Antitrust Act
24. Grover Cleveland - Only president to serve two terms that weren't consecutive
    
25. William McKinley - Assassinated by Leon Czogosz
26. Theodore Roosevelt - Leader of the Rough Riders
27. William Howard Taft - Served in the Supreme Court as Chief Justice
28. Woodrow Wilson - WWI, women's rights
29. Warren G. Harding - Tea Pot Dome scandal
30. Calvin Coolidge - Brought honesty back to White House, made presidency respectable again.
31. Herbert C. Hoover - Great Depression
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor, WWII, Social Security
33. Harry S. Truman - Dropped atomic bomb to end WWII
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Sent reinforcements to Little Rock, Arkansas to desegregate the schools
35. John F. Kennedy - First Catholic president, pushed for civil rights, assassinated
    
36. Lyndon B. Johnson - Vietnam War
37. Richard M. Nixon - Water Gate scandal, only president to resign
38. Gerald Ford - Only president who wasn't elected president of vice president
39. James E. Carter - peanut farmer
40. Ronald Reagan - actor, appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court
41. George H. W. Bush - Persian Gulf War
42. William Jefferson Clinton - Second president to be impeached
43. George W. Bush - Sept. 11, War on terror
44. Barack Obama - first African-American president, health care reform

There you have it. All of the presidents in order with some sort of important fact associated with them. Quite exciting, right?