Quiz
1. Which president won both the highest popular vote and the most electoral college votes in an election?
2. What candidate has run in the most presidential elections?
3. Which presidents were elected even though they lost the popular vote?
4. Which presidential election was the closest in terms of the popular vote?
5. Which presidential candidate was elected, defeated, and then reelected?
6. Who was the only president elected four times?
7. Women throughout the United States were given the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. But what was the first territory or state to grant women the right to vote?
8. The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. But what outlawed the discriminatory practices the prevented many African Americans from exercising their right to vote?
9. Which was the first presidential election in which 18-year-olds could vote?
10. Only two states allow electors to divide their votes among candidates in presidential elections. Which of the following are the two states?
1. Which president won both the highest popular vote and the most electoral college votes in an election?
Ronald Reagan
2. What candidate has run in the most presidential elections?
Norman Thomas
3. Which presidents were elected even though they lost the popular vote?
Four: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush
4. Which presidential election was the closest in terms of the popular vote?
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon
5. Which presidential candidate was elected, defeated, and then reelected?
Grover Cleveland
6. Who was the only president elected four times?
Franklin Roosevelt
7. Women throughout the United States were given the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. But what was the first territory or state to grant women the right to vote?
Wyoming
8. The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. But what outlawed the discriminatory practices the prevented many African Americans from exercising their right to vote?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
9. Which was the first presidential election in which 18-year-olds could vote?
1972
10. Only two states allow electors to divide their votes among candidates in presidential elections. Which of the following are the two states?
Maine and Nebraska