Question: top-left: THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
top-left: Please put your answers in a different color
top-left: Directions:
top-left: You need to choose a president to research. This background sheet counts for 1\/2 of
top-left: your project (1\/2 of a major grade).
top-left: You will pick a president from a list. No more than two people per class can pick
top-left: the same president.
top-left: Biographical resource: https:\/\/millercenter.org\/president
top-left: Name of the president you chose to research:
1. Quote: (on the main biography page):
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2. What do you think this quote means?
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Fast Facts:
3. Education:
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4. Career:
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5. Political Party:
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6. Years in office:
______________________________________Life in Brief: two important facts about this president's life before becoming president:
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Impact and Legacy: two important things this president did is:
9. Action:
a. Why this is important:
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10. Action:
a. Why this is important:
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Use the American Presidency Project to answer the following questions:
https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook\/party-platforms-and-nominating-conventions-3
11. Who was your president's opponent? If your president ran more than once - list both opponents.
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12. Electoral votes: choose one of your president's elections for the following:
a. Election year:
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b. Electoral votes for your president:
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Shape\/graph: several horizontal empty rectangular boxes are visible in the left-center and lower-left area of the page; position_hint: top-left, center, and bottom-left.Click on your candidates party to find his platform (list of ideas\/goals) for that election.
13. Whats one economic goal your president ran on?
14. Whats one military\/national security goal your president ran on?
15. Whats one social goal your president ran on? This could be justice, the war on poverty, a war on crime, etc.
16. Whats one thing from your candidates platform (campaign) that you think is still a problem?
17. Is there anything from your candidates platform (campaign) that you think has been fixed\/solved?
1. **Stating the problem:** You need to research a U.S. president and answer a series of biographical and political questions about them.
2. **Instructions:** This is a research and writing task, not a math problem. You must choose a president, find information about them, and fill in the answers.
3. Since this is not a math or physics problem, there are no formulas or calculations to perform.
4. To complete this task, follow these steps:
1. Choose a president from the provided list or resource.
2. Visit the biographical resource at https://millercenter.org/president to find the president's quote, education, career, political party, years in office, and life facts.
3. Use the American Presidency Project at https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/party-platforms-and-nominating-conventions-3 to find information about the president's opponents, electoral votes, and campaign platforms.
4. Fill in each answer box with the researched information.
5. **Note:** This is a research assignment and cannot be answered with calculations or formulas.
**Final answer:** Please select a president and research the answers using the provided resources to complete the worksheet.