·  Federal Government: Electing a President: The Process (Full Video)

·  1.The founding fathers set up a way by which voters cast votes for special electors who are pledged to cast their ballots based on how many people in their state voted. This system is called _____.

o  A) legislative review

o  B) executive privilege

o  C) the judicial process

o  D) the Electoral College

·  2.In the 2000 Presidential Election, George W. Bush won the presidency with the electoral (or majority of states') votes, even though Al Gore _____.

o  A) slipped in the polls

o  B) won the popular vote

o  C) won every states' elections

o  D) lost most of the states' delegates

·  3.All presidential candidates today must have the backing of one of the two major political parties in order to have a successful run for office.

o  A) true

o  B) false

·  4.Which of the following statements about party conventions and party bosses is true?

o  A) In the "party boss" days, delegates had little real power.

o  B) Party bosses once nominated someone who didn't want to be nominated.

o  C) Party bosses met and decided that Warren Harding should run for president.

o  D) all of the above

·  5.During primary elections voters have the chance to choose who can be the candidate to run for their _____.

o  A) party

o  B) platform

o  C) delegate

o  D) legislation

·  6.Campaigning has changed a lot since President Abraham Lincoln stayed home while others campaigned for him. Since the mid-1950s, all of the following are true about candidates, EXCEPT _____.

o  A) they went on "whistle stop" campaigns to give speeches along railroad towns

o  B) radio made it possible for them to reach millions of listeners across country

o  C) televisions forever changed American politics with television campaign ads

o  D) they avoided using new ways to reach voters such as telephone calls, television ads, and Internet sites

·  7.Historians believe that Richard Nixon might have won the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy if Nixon had NOT _____.

o  A) gone to China to thaw Cold War tensions

o  B) traveled the campaign trail without his wife

o  C) made his famous “Checkers” speech in 1952

o  D) participated in the first televised presidential debates

·  8.Some people think that by focusing on visual images and how telegenic and strong a candidate appears, television campaign ads trivialize the political process.

o  A) true

o  B) false

·  9.Unlike early times in American history when only white men could vote, laws have been passed giving voting privileges to _____.

o  A) women

o  B) African-Americans

o  C) immigrants

o  D) both A and B