Campaign Strategy

Students will research requirements and qualities of presidential leadership and create a PowerPoint to share their research findings

Students will work with the party platforms for the four major parties participating in the Election of 1948 (Democratic, Republican, States' Rights Democratic, and Progressive parties).

Students will analyze results of the 1950 congressional elections to determine how/why the Democrats lost enough seats to cause President Truman to lose a working majority in Congress.

Using cooperative learning small groups will analyze and summarize key aspects of the Clifford-Rowe Memorandum.