Sunday, April 6, 2008

The United States

Activity 1: The Presidents of the United States

Visit the White House

Read the list of the Presidents of the United States (and the state where they were born):
1. George Washington (1789-97) Virginia
2. John Adams (1797-1801) Massachusetts
3.
Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) Virginia
4. James Madison (1809-17) Virginia
5. James Monroe (1817-25) Virginia
6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29) Massachusetts
7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37) South Carolina
8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41) New York
9. William Henry Harrison (1841) Virginia
10. John Tyler (1841-45) Virginia
11. James K. Polk (1845-49) North Carolina
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50) Virginia
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53) New York
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57) New Hampshire
15. James Buchanan (1857-61) Pennsylvania
16.
Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) Kentucky
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69) North Carolina
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) Ohio
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81) Ohio
20. James A. Garfield (1881) Ohio
21. Chester A. Arthur (1881-85) Vermont
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-89) New Jersey
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) Ohio
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-97) New Jersey
25. William McKinley (1897-1901) Ohio
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) New York
27. William H. Taft (1909-13) Ohio
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) Virginia
29. Warren G. Harding (1921-23) Ohio
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) Vermont
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-33) Iowa
32.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) New York
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53) Missouri
34.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) Texas
35.
John F. Kennedy (1961-63) Massachusetts
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69) Texas
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) California
38. Gerald R. Ford (1974-77) Nebraska
39. Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Georgia
40.
Ronald Reagan (1981-89) Illinois
41.
George Bush (1989-93) Massachusetts
42.
William J. Clinton (1993-2001) Arkansas
43.
George W. Bush (2001-2009) Connecticut
44. Barack Obama (2009- ) Hawaii
Now answer these questions:
How many presidents have been there in the US?
Who was the first one? When was he elected? When was he born?
In the American Civil War (1861-1865) the northern states fought against the southern states. The reason of the conflict was basically slavery: the south supported it while the north wanted to eradicate it. Who was the president during the war? When did he become president? And when was he born?




John F. Kennedy was the thirty-fifth President. When was he elected? How did he die? Does he have anything in common with Lincoln?

Activity 2: The presidents and the states where they were born.

Look at the presidents' birthplaces. If you compare the states, there are some of them where more presidents were born. Why?

Activity 3: The states

Map of the United States

Learn more about the states

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