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

__C__1) Lincoln defeats McClellan in the Electoral College without the Southern states.	Image A
__A__2) Harry Truman conducts whistlestop tour during the 1948 campaign.	Image B
__D__3) Bill Clinton is inaugurated for the second time as the nation's 42nd president (1997)	Image C
__B__4) Democratic candidate Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination at the national convention.	Image D

B. Return to Questions. Review responses with students.

Photo Credit for Image A and C: http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_use.htm

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