Presidential Election Facts // History.com

Question 1

When the founders drafted the constitution, they left out one very important detail: ____________?

Answer 1

How do we nominate the candidates for the presidency of the United States?

Question 2

For ______ years, we’ve been winning it.

Answer 2

200

Question 3

You might wonder why the ______ didn’t write into law the rules for how we might pick our _______.

Answer 3

(1) Founding fathers

(2) Party nominees

Question 4

Why didn’t the founding fathers write into law the rules for how we might pick our party nominees?

Answer 4

The founding fathers had just broken away from the British political system which they saw as being corrupted by political parties.

Question 5

The founding fathers wanted the very best men to be chosen based on their _________.

Answer 5

Qualifications.

Question 6

Despite their best intentions, parties emerged in the first years of ___________. Those parties then began to shape who got ______ and who eventually became _______.

Answer 6

(1) American democracies
(2) Nominated
(3) President

Question 7

Early on, only members of ______ and the _____ chose the nominees.

Answer 7

(1) Congress

(2) Senate

Question 8

With the expansion of the right to ____ across America, it became necessary to enlist the support of _______ and _____ who would choose the _______ and ________.

Answer 8

(1) Vote
(2) Local party leaders
(3) Party bosses
(4) Party nominees
(5) Party conventions

Question 9

At the convention, party bosses would meet in ______ filled rooms where they would decide who is going to be their ________.

Answer 9

(1) Smoke

(2) Parties nominee

Question 10

There would be lots of ______ and quiet a bit or corruption.

Answer 10

Horse-trading

Question 11

In the early _______ century, ___ and __ emerged.

Answer 11

(1) 20th
(2) Primaries
(3) Caucuses

Question 12

The parties created _____ that allowed ordinary party members to be involved in the process of choosing their _________.

Answer 12

(1) Primaries

(2) Parties nominee

Question 13

Today, to win the nomination of your party for the presidency, you have to win a series of ______ and ______.

Answer 13

(1) Primaries

(2) Caucuses

Question 14

A ____ is an election that takes place in the individual ___ in which party members vote for their parties nominees.

Answer 14

(1) Primary

(2) States

Question 15

Some states don’t have primaries, they have _____.

Answer 15

Caucuses

Question 16

In a caucus, members of a particular party get together in a _____ or ______ and they talk about _________. Then they break off into individual groups and those groups get _____ and ____.

Answer 16

(1) Schoolhouse
(2) Individual’s home
(3) Support for a particular candidate
(4) Noted
(5) Counted

Question 17

Candidates in a caucus or primary are awarded ______.

Answer 17

State party delegate

Question 18

True or False: Just because the candidate wins the most votes in the primary and caucus process, does not mean he automatically becomes the parties candidate.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False: Delegates can switch their loyalty to another candidate.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

In the _______, the ____ party decided they were going to __________ by having a group of delegates who were not ______ to their regular party memberships and these super delegates would come to the convention and if their was a chance of some sort of ______ and a _____, they would swing their support behind one candidate and it would allow a ______ to emerge for election day in ______.

Answer 20

(1) 1980’s
(2) Democratic
(3) Stabilize the System
(4) Beholden
(5) Chaos
(6) Split party
(7) Unified Party
(8) November

Question 21

In the end, the nomination process may be chaotic but in other _______, the party leaders still choose their ____ for public office.

Answer 21

(1) Democracies

(2) Nominees

Question 22

Only in ______ do the ordinary party members have a say in who their _______ is going to be.

Answer 22

(1) America

(2) Party nominee