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Campaign 2004 Quiz: Historic Elections

1. Which most recent election had state-by-state controversy?
       a. Election of 2000
       b. Election of 1824
       c. Election of 1948
       d. Election of 1980
Answer: A
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/electoral.asp
The Electoral College restricts significance of the popular vote to the state level.
As a result, disputes have an impact at the state and local level rather than at
the national level. For example, if the election of 2000 had been a nationwide
popular vote, disputes could have been raised in several states in an effort to
close or expand the narrow margin separating the two candidates. Under the
current system, the dispute was limited to Florida.


2. Who is the only president to serve who did not receive votes as a presidential
    or vice presidential candidate?
        a. John Tyler
        b. George H. W. Bush
        c. Gerald Ford
        d. Andrew Johnson
Answer: C
http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=
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He is the only president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the
vice presidency.


3. Which Election was the first to feature a televised debate?
       a. 1960
       b. 1964
       c. 1968
       d. 1972
Answer: A
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/video.asp
The debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon on September 26,
1960 was the first presidential debate to be televised.


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4. Which of the following is NOT associated with the election of 1800?
    a. The election was thrown into the House of Representatives
    b. States' rights
    c. The spread of slavery into western territories
    d. The religious beliefs of the candidates
Answer: C
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/1800.asp
The spread of slavery into western territories was not yet an issue in presidential
elections. However, states' rights were a focus in the election of 1800; they took
the place of foreign policy issues which had shaped the past three presidential
elections. The division between the two candidates on the issue of states' rights
became clear when Jefferson supported the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures'
efforts to nullify the Federalist-sponsored Alien and Sedition Acts, which
President Adams had signed into law.

Religious beliefs were also important in this election. John Adams's Federalist
Party attacked Thomas Jefferson for his "un-Christian deism."

In the end, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. However,
House members were not choosing between Jefferson and Adams. President
John Adams lost the election to both Jefferson and Aaron Burr who each
received 73 votes in the Electoral College. Although the Democratic-Republicans
intended for Burr to be their vice-presidential candidate, the current electoral
system provided no way to elect the president and vice president independently.
(In 1800, the candidate who received the second-highest number of votes in the
electoral system was to be the vice president.) The tied election then went to the
House of Representatives where each state had one vote. The sixteen states
deadlocked through several ballots and over several days. Finally, after thirty-six
rounds of ballots, and internal politicking by former Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton and others, Jefferson received ten votes, Burr received four
(thus becoming the vice president), with two states abstaining.


5. Which president was Constitutionally elected although he did not receive the
   most popular votes in the general election?
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Richard Nixon
c. George W. Bush
d. Abraham Lincoln
Answer: C
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/electoral1.asp




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Republican George W. Bush received the most electoral votes while his
Democratic opponent, former Vice President Al Gore, received the most popular
votes in the general election of 2000.


6. The impeachment of a president results in:
    a. A trial in the U.S. Senate
    b. The resignation of the president
    c. A recall election in six months
    d. A trial in the Supreme Court
Answer: A
The decision surrounding a presidential impeachment first goes to the House of
Representatives, where members vote on whether or not to impeach a president.
If the House votes to impeach, then the Senate holds an impeachment trial.
After the trial, the Senate will vote to convict or acquit the president.

Three presidents have been faced with impeachment, but only two have been
impeached; none of these have been convicted in the Senate. Andrew Johnson
was the first president to be impeached and was acquitted in the Senate by just
one vote. Because Richard Nixon resigned before the House of Representatives
took a vote, he was never impeached. Bill Clinton was the second president to be
impeached; although the House of Representatives voted against sending him to
trial in the Senate.


7. Which of the following was NOT an issue during the election of 1968?
   a. President Johnson's decision not to run for re-election
   b. Civil rights
   c. The Equal Rights Amendment
   d. The Vietnam War
Answer: C
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/1968.asp
Many factors affected the turbulent course the election of 1968 would take.
During the election of 1968 much of the nation was already up in arms over the
war in Vietnam, and the civil rights movement at home brought further division
amongst citizens. With the nationwide civil unrest President Johnson announced
on March 31, 1968 that he would no longer seek re-election, thus, clearing the
way for Vice President Hubert Humphrey to declare his candidacy.


8. What message did the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign intend to relay with the
   "Daisy" commercial in the election of 1964?
   a. Americans were not safe so long as LBJ was President.




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    b. The American public needed to prepare themselves for a nuclear bomb
attack.
    c. LBJ was the only candidate that could keep America safe from nuclear war.
    d. LBJ's Head Start Program was a success.
Answer: C
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/video.asp
In the Election of 1964 the Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson opposed
Republican candidate Barry Goldwater by attacking Mr. Goldwater's Cold War
platform. Goldwater spoke of using nuclear warfare to oust the Communists from
South Vietnam. LBJ exploited Goldwater for his hawkish tendencies through the
"Daisy" commercial in which a calm scene of a little girl picking flowers is
destroyed by a radioactive mushroom cloud.


9. With which candidate did the "New Right" align itself?
    a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
    c. Richard Nixon
    d. Ronald Reagan
Answer: D
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/1980.asp
Reagan appealed to the New Right's agenda. Resurrecting the traditional themes
of rugged individualism and free enterprise, Reagan also established a "pro-
family" posture: opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and to legalized
abortion. He called for the federal government to relinquish more power to the
states. Reagan also promised to reduce taxes and cut federal spending.
Opposing S.A.L.T. II, Reagan conveyed a "get tough" policy with any foreign
power that would threaten America's international prestige or national security.


10. Who is credited with arranging the "corrupt bargain" which decided John
    Quincy Adams as the winner over Andrew Jackson in the Election of 1824?
    a. John Jay
    b. William Crawford
    c. John Adams
    d. Henry Clay
Answer: D
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/1824.asp
The presidential election of 1824 is one of the most controversial elections in
United States history. There were four Republican candidates vying for the
presidency--Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry
Clay. None of the candidates received 50% of the electoral votes, throwing the
election to the House of Representatives; however, only the top three candidates
could now be in the running. Finishing fourth in the electoral count, Henry Clay,


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who happened to be Speaker of the House, threw his support to John Quincy
Adams. Clay's substantial influence over the House vote resulted in the election
of John Quincy Adams, who had received approximately 30% of the popular
vote. Rumors of a "corrupt bargain" were alleged after Clay was selected by
Adams to serve as Secretary of State.




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