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| 1. | His childhood nickname was "Dutch" because his father called him his "fat little Dutchman."
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| 2. | He was known for his integrity and his loyalty to Jacksonian principles.
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| 3. | He supported the income-tax amendment to the Constitution.
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| 4. | He won the presidency in one of the closest and most controversial elections in American history.
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| 5. | This man was the first president to speak over the radio.
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| 1. | This man was the first president to leave the continental United States when he traveled to Panama in 1906.
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| 2. | This man was the fourteenth president of the United States.
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| 4. | The raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, by the abolitionist John Brown, occurred during his term.
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| 6. | This president conducted a radio phone-in program, Ask the President, in which 42 callers-of 9 million who tried to reach him-asked a wide range of questions.
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| 7. | This president used his veto powers over 500 times during his two terms.
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| 8. | This president was the youngest person ever to be elected as governor of Arkansas.
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| 9. | This president's mother wanted him to become a Quaker missionary, but he wanted to be an FBI agent.
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| 10. | This president is known for telling the truth, even when asked about a certain cherry tree.
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| 11. | This president gave several parties at the White House for his 15 children, his grandchildren, and their friends.
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| 12. | He was Andrew Jackson's Vice President.
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| 13. | This president was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. after his biological father, but was later renamed after his adoptive father.
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| 14. | This president loved to play the piano. In 1948, a piano leg went through the floor of the White House!
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| 15. | He was one of the first presidential candidates to campaign actively for the office.
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| 16. | This president, a man of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager in which he replied, "You lose."
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| 17. | He sent federal troops into South Carolina when South Carolina tried to nullify federal tariff laws.
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| 18. | During this president's term, the first laws to regulate child labor and improve working conditions were passed.
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| 19. | The Embargo Act forced him to use the federal powers that he had opposed.
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| 20. | This president was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio.
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| 21. | He was born in Virginia, grew up on the Kentucky frontier, established his home in Louisiana, and died in the White House.
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