Presidential Logic
Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
In 2017, the cable network C-SPAN released a report ranking presidents 1-44 in terms
of the effectiveness of their presidencies. Use the clues below to order a portion of
those presidents by their C-SPAN rankings. Based on the lst below, what is each president's ranking?
1. Abraham Lincoln is ranked first
2. Ulysses S. Grant is ranked one spot higher than Franklin Pierce
3. Bill Clinton is ranked lower than John F. Kennedy but higher than Andrew
Jackson
4. Theodore Roosevelt is ranked 4th
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt is ranked higher than Theodore Roosevelt
6. Franklin Pierce is ranked last on this list
7. Thomas Jefferson is ranked in between Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F.
Kennedy
8. Andrew Jackson and John Adams are ranked next to each other on the list,
though historians like Jackson better
10 John F. Kennedy is ranked in the top ten
11 William McKinley is ranked higher than Andrew Jackson but lower than Bill
Clinton
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Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
Bill Clinton
William McKinley
Andrew Jackson
John Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Pierce