Using Current Events to Understand Elections: Wrap-Up Matching
Wrap-up Activity: Using What You Have Learned
A. Place the images below on the right along side their correct headline on the left.
Matching Events and The Headline
____1) Lincoln defeats McClellan in the Electoral College without the Southern states. |
 Image A |
| ____2) Harry Truman conducts whistlestop tour during the 1948 campaign. |  Image B |
| ____3) Bill Clinton
is inaugurated for the second time as the nation's 42nd president (1997) |
 Image C |
| ____4) Democratic
candidate Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination at the national
convention. |
 Image D |
B. Answers are available.
Review answers orally with students.
Photo Credit for Image A and C: http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_use.htm
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Current Events To Understand Presidential Elections