Ranking the Presidents

This survey is being conducted for Political Science Y205. This survey is 100% anonymous and the collected information will be used only for this class project. This information will never be published or made public in any other form.

Which of the following best describes your early, elementary level educational experience?

American public school system

American parochial school

American private school

Home schooled

Educated outside the United States

Other

Which region of the United States are you originally from?

Which ethnic group do you identify with?

Historians commonly rank the ten Presidents in the table below as the ten greatest Presidents in American History. Please indicate your personal opinion on how these Presidents should be ranked in relation to one another by marking the space below the number you think best corresponds with the President’s name. Marking a space in the column below the 1 indicates that that President is the greatest President on the table, 2 indicate 2nd best, 3 indicates 3rd best, etc.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

James Polk

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

(Open ended questions) Please answer the following questions in one or two sentences. What is the most important accomplishment, as President, of the individual you indicated as your choice for number 1 greatest President in the table above?

What is the most important accomplishment, as President, of the individual you indicated as your choice for 2nd greatest President in the table above?

What was your main reason for placing your number 10 choice last in the table above?