HIST 3080 20th Century Presidential Elections
Constitutional Convention
Electoral College
Caucus
Nominating Conventions
Presidential Preferential Primaries
Presidential Succession Act of 1792
Presidential Succession Act of 1886
Cabinet
Election of 1896
McKinley (R) 271 7,035,Bryan (D)
176 6,467,Mark Hanna
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Populist Party
Political buttons
Dingley Tariff (1897)
Spanish-American War/Imperialism
Election of 1898
Theodore Roosevelt
Gold Standard Act (1900)
Election of 1900
McKinley (R) 292 7,219,Bryan (D)
155 6,358,Debs (S)
86,Leon Czolgosz
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
“Trust Busting”
“Rule of Reason”
Coal Strike of 1902
Panama Canal
Booker T. Washington
Election of 1904
Roosevelt (R) 336 7,628,Parker (D)
140 5,084,Debs (S)
402,Muckrakers
Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Hepburn Act (1906)
Conservation
Gifford Pinchot
“Big Stick”
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Great White Fleet
Election of 1908
Taft (R)
321 7,679,Bryan (D) 162 6,409,Debs (S)
420,Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Progressives/Old Guard
Election of 1910
National Progressive Republican League
Woodrow Wilson
Champ Clark
Robert LaFollette
“Wisconsin Idea”
Election of 1912
Wilson (D)
435 6,286,Roosevelt (P)
88 4,126,Taft (R)
8 3,483,Debs (S)
901,“Bull Moose”
John Schrank
16th Amendment (1913)
17th Amendment (1913)
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Clayton Act (1914)
World War I
Adamson Act (1916)
Election of 1916
Wilson (D) 277 9,129,Hughes (R) 254 8,538,Benson (S)
589,Hiram Johnson
Election of 1918
18th Amendment (1919)
Volstead Act (1919)
19th Amendment (1920)
League of Women Voters
Equal Rights Amendment
Election of 1920
Harding (R) 404 16,152,Cox (D)
127
9,147,Debs (S)
915,“Ohio Gang”
Emergency Tariff Act (1921)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)
Teapot Dome
Albert Fall
Harry Sinclair
Charles Forbes
Calvin Coolidge
Election of 1924
Coolidge (R)
382 15,725,Davis (D)
136
8,385,LaFollette (P)
13
4,822,Progressive Party
Farm Bloc
McNary-Haugen Bill (1927)
Election of 1928
Hoover (R) 444 21,392,Smith (D)
87 15,016,Stock Market Crash
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Great Depression
Election of 1930
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Bonus Army
FIRST EXAM
Election of 1932
Roosevelt (D) 472
22,821,Hoover (R)
59
15,761,Brain Trust
20th Amendment (1933)
Joseph Zangara
“Fear Itself”
New Deal
Emergency Banking Act
Fireside Chat
Beer-Wine Revenue Act
21st Amendment (1933)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Industrial Recovery Act
Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend
Upton Sinclair
Liberty League
Election of 1934
Second New Deal
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Election of 1936
Roosevelt (D) 523
27,751,Landon (R)
8
16,679,Lemke (U)
892,Literary Digest
Court Packing
Election of 1938
World War II
Neutrality Acts
isolation vs. intervention
Committee to Defend America
America First Committee
Lend-Lease
Selective Service Act of 1940
Election of 1940
Roosevelt (D) 449
27,243,Willkie (R)
82
22,304,Pearl Harbor
Stimson/Knox
Alien Registration Act of 1940
Executive Order 9066 (1942)
Election of 1942
Election of 1944
Roosevelt (D) 432
25,602,Dewey (R)
99
22,006,Warm Springs
Harry S Truman
Election of 1946
“Had Enough?”
80th Congress
22nd Amendment (1951)
Presidential Succession Act of 1947
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
National Security Act of 1947
Executive Order 9981 (1948)
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Containment
HUAC/Alger Hiss/Richard Nixon
Election of 1948
Truman (D)
303
24,105,Dewey (R)
189
21,970,Thurmond (S-R)
39
1,169,Wallace (P)
1,157,States’ Rights Party (“Dixiecrats”)
“Fair Deal”
Election of 1950
Korean War
Second Red Scare
Joseph McCarthy
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Election of 1952
Eisenhower (R)
442
33,936,Stevenson (D)
89
27,314,“Treaty of Morningside Heights”
Checkers Speech
Brown Decision
Brown II
Election of 1954
Geneva Conference (1955)
Election of 1956
Eisenhower (R)
457
35,590,Stevenson (D)
73
26,031,Eisenhower Doctrine
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Election of 1958
Nelson Rockefeller/Barry Goldwater
Sherman Adams
Sputnik
NDEA/NASA
U-2
SECOND EXAM
Election of 1960
Kennedy (D) 303
34,227,Nixon (R)
219
34,108,Television Debates
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cuba
Vietnam
New Frontier
Civil rights
Dallas/Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
War on Poverty
Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment (1964)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Election of 1964
Johnson (D) 486
43,126,Goldwater (R) 52
27,176,Great Society
Medicare/Medicaid
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Election of 1966
25th Amendment (1967)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Election of 1968
Nixon (R)
301
31,785,Humphrey (D)
191
31,275,Wallace (AI)
46
9,906,Robert F. Kennedy
“law and order”
“southern strategy”
Vietnamization
China/Russia visits
26th Amendment (1971)
Election of 1972
Nixon (R)
520
47,165,McGovern (D)
17
29,168,Thomas Eagleton/Sargent Shriver
Pentagon Papers/Daniel Ellsberg
Plumbers
Watergate
CREEP
John Mitchell
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Operation Gemstone
James McCord
Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein
“Deep Throat”
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
John Dean
Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein
Senate Watergate Committee/Sam Ervin
Archibald Cox
Alexander Butterfield
Spiro Agnew
“Saturday Night Massacre”
Leon Jaworski
U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
Peter Rodino
Gerald Ford
Nixon pardon
Election of 1976
Carter (D)
297
40,825,Ford (R)
240
39,147,THIRD EXAM