U.S. Presidents social studies lesson for kids - social studies skills studied in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grades.
When you think of the leader of the free world, almost everyone thinks of the President of the United States. He’s a figure of justice and liberty in a nation that is built on freedom. And though the President is just a man, he has often been a great man, as history can tell you very easily.
Our very first President, George Washington, is a fine example of how one can start from humble beginnings and become the leader of an entire nation. Washington was not born wealthy or even smart, but he worked hard to climb his way through the ranks of the British military, until he saw the tyranny and injustice the colonists suffered at their hands. Rebelling against a force much stronger than him, George Washington lead what would one day become America to victory, and began a long line of Presidential tradition.
Abraham Lincoln also started small. He was born in a log cabin to an unimportant family. But he knew how to work hard, and he believed in justice. He strived to become a kind yet stern man who could lead a country in times of great unrest. When the Civil War broke out, Lincoln was determined to make sure America stayed as one nation, and in the end he did just that, while putting an end to American slavery as well. Continue reading below>>>
History is filled with great Presidents that we remember fondly. Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy are just a few. But while there have been many Presidents in the history of our nation, not all of them have been the best. Some of them messed up big time, like Nixon and Clinton with their major scandals. Some of them just didn’t seem to do anything that important worth remembering, like Grover Cleveland.
But the important thing to remember about every President is that they are just people even if they are our leaders. While some of them were great and some of them were not, none of them are perfect and they can make mistakes just like the rest of us. Even the greatest Presidents we remember made mistakes sometimes. George Washington made bad calls during the war and lost some battles, and Lincoln failed to keep the nation from going to war against itself in the first place.