Can you guys help me on U. S. History homework please?

Question

1). Find out who was chosen as the Republican running mate (vice president) by John McCain.

2). How many Presidents have been assassinated? Who are they?

3). How many Presidents have had assassinations attempts on their life? Name all.

4). Who are the two presidents with "Rumored" assassinations?

Name all & what are there stories behind them.

Answer 1

1. Sarah Palin, Govenor of Alaska

2. Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F Kennedy. Total of 4

3. Andrew Jackson

Harry Truman

Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan

4. dont know

Answer 2

1) sarah palin

2)  Four U.S. presidents have been killed in office:

Abraham Lincoln in 1865;

James A. Garfield in 1881;

William McKinley in 1901;

John F. Kennedy in 1963.  

3)Assassination attempts were made on the lives of four more presidents:

Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933;

Harry S Truman in 1950;

Gerald R. Ford, two attempts, both in 1975:

Ronald Reagan in 1981.

4)Zachary Taylor,

On July 4, 1850, President Zachary Taylor was diagnosed by his physicians with cholera morbus, a term that included diarrhea and dysentery but not true cholera. Cholera, typhoid fever, and food poisoning have all been indicated as the source of the president's ultimately fatal gastroenteritis. More specifically, a hasty snack of iced milk, cold cherries and pickled cucumbers consumed at an Independence Day celebration might have been the culprit. [22] By July 9, Taylor was dead.

In the late 1980's, author Clara Rising theorized that Taylor was murdered by poison and was able to convince Taylor's closest living relative, as well as the Jefferson Co., KY Coroner, Dr. Richard Greathouse, to order an exhumation. On June 17, 1991 Taylor's remains were exhumed from the vault at the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, in Louisville, KY. The remains were then transported to the Office of the Kentucky Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. George Nichols. Nichols, joined by Dr. William Maples, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, removed the top of the lead coffin liner to reveal remarkably well preserved human remains that were immediately recoginzable as those of President Taylor. Radiological studies were conducted of the remains before small samples of hair, fingernail and other tissues were removed. Thomas Secoy of the Department of Veterans Affairs (and a direct descendant of Lewis Cass), insured that only those samples required for testing were removed and that the coffin was resealed. The remains were then returned to the cemetery and received appropriate honors at reinterment. The samples were sent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where neutron activation analysis revealed traces of arsenic at levels several hundred times less than necessary for poisoning to have occurred. [23]

Warren G. Harding

In June 1923, President Warren G. Harding set out on a cross-country "Voyage of Understanding," planning to meet ordinary people and explain his policies. During this trip, he became the first president to visit Alaska.[24] Rumors of corruption in his administration were beginning to circulate in Washington by this time, and Harding was profoundly shocked by a long message he received while in Alaska, apparently detailing illegal activities previously unknown to him. At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska through British Columbia, he developed what was thought to be a severe case of food poisoning. He gave the final speech of his life to a large crowd at the University of Washington Stadium (now Husky Stadium) at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington. A scheduled speech in Portland, Oregon was canceled. The President's train proceeded south to San Francisco. Arriving at the Palace Hotel, he developed pneumonia. Harding died of either a heart attack or a stroke at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923. The formal announcement, printed in the New York Times of that day, stated that "A stroke of apoplexy was the cause of death." He had been ill exactly one week.[25]

Naval physicians surmised that he had suffered a heart attack; however, this diagnosis was not made by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, who was traveling with the presidential party. Mrs. Harding refused permission for an autopsy, which soon led to speculation that the President had been the victim of a plot, possibly carried out by his wife. Gaston B. Means, an amateur historian and gadfly, noted in his book The Strange Death of President Harding (1930) that the circumstances surrounding his death lent themselves to some suspecting he had been poisoned. Several individuals attached to him, personally and politically, would have welcomed Harding's death, as they would have been disgraced in association by Means' assertion of Harding's "imminent impeachment." Although Means was later discredited for publicly accusing Mrs. Harding of the murder, enough doubts surround the President's death to keep reputable scholars open to the possibility of murder.[citation needed]

Answer 3

do your own homework

Answer 4

Sarah Palin

4assassinations garfield lincoln kennedy mckinley

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check this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uni...

yeah yeah i know its wikipedia, but right answers are right answers.

Answer 5

1) Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska

2)Kennedy, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley were all assassinated while in office, so 4

3)* Andrew Jackson * Theodore Roosevelt * Franklin D. Roosevelt * Harry S. Truman * John F. Kennedy * Richard M. Nixon * Gerald R. Ford * Jimmy Carter * Ronald Reagan * George H.W. Bush * Bill Clinton * George W. Bush

4)Zachary Taylor, Warren Harding

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