Remember your Ps and Qs: Presidential Promises and Quotable Quotations

Part A. Directions: Identify the President associated with each term, key policies of his administration
associated with the term.

Key Term President Key Policies

Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt • Domestic Program
• Tried to give equal opportunity to business
executives, farmers, laborers, & consumers
• Included attempts to break bad trusts, the
Meat Inspection Act, the Pure Food & Drug
Act, forced arbitration of the anthracite coal
strike & conservation measures

Dollar Diplomacy William Howard • Endorsed the Roosevelt Corollary

Taft • expanded America’s role as police officer by
substituting dollars for bullets in promoting
loans to business executives in Latin America
and the Far east
Modern Dwight Eisenhower • Although he did not extend the welfare state
Republicanism begun by New Deal, he did not tamper with
programs already in place
New Freedom Woodrow Wilson • Progressive Reform agenda
• Sought to strengthen democracy through
programs such as the Underwood Tariff,
Clayton Act, Federal Reserve Act & federal
Trade Commission
New Deal FDR • Variety of Relief, Reform, Recovery designed
to get country out of Great depression &
avoid a similar catastrophe in the future
• Country adopted the concept that the govt. has
the responsibility to “promote the general
welfare”
Manifest Destiny James K. Polk • Promised to complete the country’s expansion
to the Pacific Ocean through the acquisition of
the Oregon Country, Texas & what became of
the Mexican Cession
Rugged Herbert Hoover • Country’s prosperity and greatness to date
Individualism stemmed from rugged individualism rather
than govt. action
• That this philosophy would work again in the
Great Depression
Great Society Lyndon B. Johnson • Believed country could eliminate poverty &
racial injustice, improve education for all, and
revitalize city slums to create a truly great
society.
• Programs included Civil Rights Act, “war on
poverty”, Voting Rights Act, Medicare,

Fair deal Harry Truman’s
New Frontier John F. Kennedy
Part B. Who said it? Identify who said the following quotation & in what context it was used.
1. “A house divided against
itself cannot stand.”
2. “The power to tax
involves the power to
destroy
3. “It is at the bottom life
we must begin, not at the
top.”
4. “Separate educational
facilities are inherently
unequal.”
5. We hold these truths to
be self-evident: that all
men are created equal.”
6. “A war to end all wars.”
7. “All we ask is to be left
alone.”
8. “December 7, 1941 – a
date that will live in
infamy.”
9. “I have a dream that my
four children will one day
live in a nation where
they will not be judged
by the color of their skin
but by the content of their
character.”
10. “A law repugnant to the
Constitution is void.”
Immigration Act, and Elementary &
Secondary Education Act
• Aimed to preserve & extend the New Deal but
med considerable congressional opposition
• Sought to find opportunity in space, medicine,
technology & social relations.
Many of his proposals for civil rights, poverty
programs, Medicare & education became law after
his assassination
Abraham Lincoln Civil War
McCulloch v. Maryland Maryland’s tax on Baltimore
branch of the Bank of US was
unconstitutional.
Established principle that
National (federal) govt. is
dominant
Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute operated on
the principle that African
Americans would be well-
advised to seek training in the
trades rather than strive
immediately for social equality
S.C. Justice Earl Warren Brown v. Board (overturned
Plessy V. Ferguson)
Declaration of Independence
Woodrow Wilson World War I
Confederate States of America Civil War
FDR’s War Message to Congress Pearl Harbor
MLK’s I have a dream Speech at Major factor in Passage of Civil
the Lincoln Memorial during the Rights Act of 1964
1963 March on Washington
Marbury v. Madison S.C. Justice John Marshall
established a precedent for

11. “To make all laws which
shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing
powers.”
12. “We… covenant and
combine ourselves into a
civil body politic.”
13. “fifty-four forty or fight.”
14. “Free trade and sailors’
rights.”
15. “You shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of
gold.”
16. “God made us neighbors.
Let justice make us
friends.”
17. “And so, my fellow
Americans: Ask not
what your country can do
for you – ask what you
can do for your country.”
18. “We must be the great
arsenal of democracy.”
19. “With malice toward
none, with charity for
all…”
20. “It is our policy to stay
clear of permanent
alliances.”
21. “John Marshall has made
his decision; now let him
enforce it.”
22. “Liberty and Union, now
and forever, one and
inseparable.”
23. “Millions for defense, but
not one cent for tribute.”
24. “My paramount object in
this struggle is to save the
Union.”
25. “Peace without victory.”
Article I of the Constitution
Mayflower Compact (1620)
James K. Polk’s campaign theme
Key issues in the American
decision to go to war in 1812
William Jennings Bryan
FDR
JFK
FDR
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington’s Farewell
Address
Andrew Jackson
Daniel Webster suggested this
should be US’ motto
Federalist rallying cry
Lincoln
Wilson
judicial review
Gave Congress authority to use
implied powers
First document on self-
government in the English
colonies
Suggested that the US might
demand all of the Oregon
territory to the southern border of
Alaska
Passionate attack on the gold
standard at the Democratic
nominating convention in 1896
Sought to end Roosevelt
Corollary and establish friendlier
relations with Latin America
Inspirational message in his 1961
inaugural address set the theme
for a new commitment to
America
Lend-Lease Act in World War II
2nd Inaugural Address about
Reconstruction
Long-standing policy of US
foreign affairs
In response to John Marshall’s
decision in Worcester v. Georgia
SC’s threat to nullify the Tariff
of Abominations
Post XYZ affair
Primary objective in the Civil
War was the preservation of the
Union
Idealistic plan for a negotiated
settlement of the war before
either side achieved a victory
was unacceptable to Germany in
1917. Germany resumed
unrestricted submarine warfare, a
 step that led to US entry in the
war
26. “Remember the Alamo.” Rallying cry of Texans in their 1836
war for independence from
Mexico
27. “Remember the Maine.” Rallying cry of those in favor of Spanish American War 1898
going to war against Spain
28. “Speak softly and carry a Teddy Roosevelt Vigorous foreign policy based on
big stick.” this old African saying. Taking
the Canal Zone and pursuing the
Roosevelt Corollary in Latin
America are two examples.
29. “The ideals and traditions Truman Doctrine Offering peacetime aid to Greece
of our nations demanded & Turkey in 1947, marked a
that we come to the aid of significant break with George
Greece and Turkey and Washington’s advice in his
that we put the world on farewell address
native that it would be
our policy to support the
cause of freedom
wherever it was
threatened….”
30. “The only thing we have FDR Trying to inspire confidence in
to fear is fear itself.” the American people in FDR’s
ability to lead them through the
Great Depression
31. “We hold these truths to Declaration of Sentiments at Based the claims of women on
be self-evident: that all Seneca Falls the Declaration of Independence
men and women are
created equal; that they
are endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable rights.”
32. “The American James Monroe’s State of Union Issued this warning, now a
continents, by the free Address cornerstone of American foreign
and independent policy, against European
condition which they expansion in this hemisphere
have assumed and
maintain, are henceforth
not to be considered as
subject for future
colonization by an
European powers.”

33. “And, by virtue of the Emancipation Proclamation Committed the US to freeing the
power and for the slaves and, at the same time,
purpose aforesaid, I do helped gain British support for
order and declare that all the Union in the Civil War
persons held as slaves
within these said
designated states and
 parts of States are, and
henceforward shall be
free.”
34. “We the people of the Preamble to US Constitution 1787; promised an effort to
United States, in order to create a more effective
form a more perfect government than the state-
Union. . . “ dominated Articles of
Confederation had provided.
35. “No one can make you Eleanor Roosevelt Human rights activist; wrote this
feel inferior without your statement in a newspaper column
consent.”
36. “Surplus wealth is a Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of 1889; celebrated the benefits that
sacred trust which its Wealth great amounts of accumulated
possessor is bound to wealth could accomplish for the
administer in his lifetime public; not all were convinced
for the good of the that his treatment of workers was
community.” justified by this philosophy of
philanthropy
37. “The advance of the Frederick Jackson In his 1890 essay The
frontier has meant a Turner/Turner’s Thesis Significance of the Frontier in
steady movement away American History, helped
from the influence of Americans to understand this
Europe, a steady growth neglected factor in American
of independence on development
American lines. And to
study this advance. . . is
to study the really
American part of our
history.”
38. “What hath God First telegraph message in 1837 Introduced a revolution in
wrought!” communication
39. “Government is not the Ronald Reagan Reagan’s philosophy of govt. in
solution to our problem. the 1980s was based on this
Government is the motto
problem.”
40. “Women of the world Betty Friedan’s The Feminist 1963; touched a responsive chord
unite! You have nothing Mystique among many women & advanced
to lose but your vacuum the women’s rights movements
cleaner.”
41. “Remember the ladies.” Abigail Adams Spoken to John Adams in
reference to the creation of the
Constitution