APUSH Election Chart

Question 1

1960 Campaign

Answer 1

JFK and Lyndon B Johnson win (New Frontier)
Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr lose
Eric Hass/Georgia Cozzini (Dixiecrats)
Vote fraud/controversy with Kennedy (assasinated)

Question 2

1964 Campaign

Answer 2

Lyndon B Johnson and Hubert Humphrey win by landslide (Great Society)
Barry Goldwater and William E Miller
George C Wallace Independent/ Cleaver accused of murder

Question 3

1968 Campain

Answer 3

Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie lose to
Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (Spiro later resigns) (New Federalism)
George Wallace (shot) and Curtis LeMay are Independents
TET Offensive
LBJ doesn’t run

Question 4

What is TET offensive

Answer 4

One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam against the forces

Question 5

1972 campaign

Answer 5

George McGovern and Sargent Shriver lose to
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Thomas Eagleton scandal

Question 6

1976 campaign

Answer 6

Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale beat Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (very close race)
Roger MacBride and David Bergland are libertarians
Eugene runs as independent
Rockefeller won’t run with Ford

Question 7

1980 Campaign

Answer 7

Jimmy Carter (Baptist) and Walter Mondale lose to
Ronald Reagan (Reaganonics) and George H.W. Bush
John B Anderson and Patrick Lucy run as Independents (get 8%)
Iran Hostage Crisis

Question 8

1984 Campaign

Answer 8

Walter Mondale and Geraldine A Ferraro (first female VP) lose to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
Reagan is 73-oldest president ever elected
READ MY LIPS, NO NEW TAXES

Question 9

1988 Campaigns

Answer 9

Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bensten Jr lose to George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle
Populist David Duke (KKK) and Jesse Jackson
Stock market crash, Intermediate-Range nuclear forces treaty

Question 10

1992 Campaign

Answer 10

Bill Clinton (1st baby boomer President) and Al Gore beat George HW Bush and Dan Quayle
Ross Perot (Independent Reform) James Stockdale 
Bush broke promises and lost votes

Question 11

1996 campaign

Answer 11

Bill Clinton and Al Gore beat Bob Dole and Jack Kemp
Clinton Impeachment trial, Monika Lewinsky
Ross Perot and Pat Choate
Good/stable economy benefited Clinton greatly

Question 12

2000 Campaign

Answer 12

Al Gore and Joe Liberman (1st Jewish candidate) lose to George W Bush and Dick Cheney
Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, Pat Buchanan
Controversy over Florida’s votes (pregnant, hanging Chads)

Question 13

2004 Campaign

Answer 13

John Kerry and John Edwards lose to George W Bush and Dick Cheney
9/11
Ralph Nader and Peter Camijo are 3rd party
Foreign policy controversy with voting

Question 14

2008 campaign

Answer 14

Barack Obama and Joe Biden beat John McCain and Sarah Palin

Great Recession, first African American president of the US (no slave blood)

Question 15

2012 campaign

Answer 15

Barack Obama and Joe Biden beat Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
Gary Johnson and Jim Gray
Romney’s severely conservative statement lost him votes
Voting laws passed