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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


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


3. Which   Election was the first to feature a televised debate?
     a.    1960
     b.    1964
     c.    1968
     d.    1972


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


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




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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


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


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.
    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.


9. With which candidate did the "New Right" align itself?
   a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
   b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
   c. Richard Nixon
   d. Ronald Reagan


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




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