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,
 Immigration Act, and Elementary &
Secondary Education Act
Fair deal Harry Truman’s • Aimed to preserve & extend the New Deal but
med considerable congressional opposition
New Frontier John F. Kennedy • 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

Part B. Who said it? Identify who said the following quotation & in what context it was used.

1. “A house divided against Abraham Lincoln Civil War

itself cannot stand.”

2. “The power to tax McCulloch v. Maryland Maryland’s tax on Baltimore

involves the power to branch of the Bank of US was
destroy unconstitutional.
Established principle that
National (federal) govt. is
dominant
3. “It is at the bottom life Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute operated on
we must begin, not at the the principle that African
top.” Americans would be well-
advised to seek training in the
trades rather than strive
immediately for social equality
4. “Separate educational S.C. Justice Earl Warren Brown v. Board (overturned
facilities are inherently Plessy V. Ferguson)
unequal.”

5. We hold these truths to Declaration of Independence

be self-evident: that all
men are created equal.”
6. “A war to end all wars.” Woodrow Wilson World War I
7. “All we ask is to be left Confederate States of America Civil War
alone.”
8. “December 7, 1941 – a FDR’s War Message to Congress Pearl Harbor
date that will live in
infamy.”
9. “I have a dream that my MLK’s I have a dream Speech at Major factor in Passage of Civil
four children will one day the Lincoln Memorial during the Rights Act of 1964
live in a nation where 1963 March on Washington
they will not be judged
by the color of their skin
but by the content of their
character.”

10. “A law repugnant to the Marbury v. Madison S.C. Justice John Marshall
Constitution is void.” established a precedent for
 judicial review
11. “To make all laws which Article I of the Constitution Gave Congress authority to use
shall be necessary and implied powers
proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing
powers.”
12. “We… covenant and Mayflower Compact (1620) First document on self-
combine ourselves into a government in the English
civil body politic.” colonies
13. “fifty-four forty or fight.” James K. Polk’s campaign theme Suggested that the US might
demand all of the Oregon
territory to the southern border of
Alaska
14. “Free trade and sailors’ Key issues in the American
rights.” decision to go to war in 1812
15. “You shall not crucify William Jennings Bryan Passionate attack on the gold
mankind upon a cross of standard at the Democratic
gold.” nominating convention in 1896
16. “God made us neighbors. FDR Sought to end Roosevelt
Let justice make us Corollary and establish friendlier
friends.” relations with Latin America
17. “And so, my fellow JFK Inspirational message in his 1961
Americans: Ask not inaugural address set the theme
what your country can do for a new commitment to
for you – ask what you America
can do for your country.”
18. “We must be the great FDR Lend-Lease Act in World War II
arsenal of democracy.”
19. “With malice toward Abraham Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Address about
none, with charity for Reconstruction
all…”
20. “It is our policy to stay George Washington’s Farewell Long-standing policy of US
clear of permanent Address foreign affairs
alliances.”
21. “John Marshall has made Andrew Jackson In response to John Marshall’s
his decision; now let him decision in Worcester v. Georgia
enforce it.”
22. “Liberty and Union, now Daniel Webster suggested this SC’s threat to nullify the Tariff
and forever, one and should be US’ motto of Abominations
inseparable.”
23. “Millions for defense, but Federalist rallying cry Post XYZ affair
not one cent for tribute.”
24. “My paramount object in Lincoln Primary objective in the Civil
this struggle is to save the War was the preservation of the
Union.” Union
25. “Peace without victory.” Wilson 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