Description
Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, talked about the history of former presidents running for non-consecutive terms, the impact of third party candidates, and sitting vice presidents who were not selected by their parties to run for president.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- CLIP #1: According to Barbara Perry, how many one-term Presidents have attempted to win election to nonconsecutive terms?
- CLIP #1: Who are the two "most famous," and why? Based on the clip, why was Grover Cleveland's run successful?
- CLIP #1: What "often" happens when a President tries for a nonconsecutive second term? Summarize the example Perry provides from Martin Van Buren, and why the opposing party's candidate can often "waltz into the White House."
- CLIP #1: Can one of today's two major political parties split, according to Perry? What happened during the 2000 Presidential Election?
- CLIP #2: In what way did Millard Fillmore become President, and why did his political party "turn" on him? How did he respond?
- CLIP #2: What "famous examples" of Vice Presidents whose party turned on them exist? Summarize the three examples Barbara Perry provides.
Additional Resources
- Bell Ringer: The History of Third Parties
- Bell Ringer: The Spoils System vs the Merit System
- Bell Ringer: President Grover Cleveland - Biography
- Bell Ringer: President Martin Van Buren - Biography
- Bell Ringer: President William Howard Taft - Biography
- Bell Ringer: President Zachary Taylor - Biography
- Bell Ringer: President Millard Fillmore - Biography
- Bell Ringer: President Benjamin Harrison - Biography
- Lesson Plan: Theodore Roosevelt
- Lesson Plan: The Legacies of Woodrow Wilson
- Lesson Plan: Political Parties
- Lesson Plan: Most Despised US Presidents
Participants
Vocabulary
- Adlai Stevenson
- Al Gore
- Allegory
- Benjamin Harrison
- Bernie Sanders
- Cabal
- Democrat
- Donald Trump
- Electoral Vote
- Estes Kefauver
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Fraternity
- Free Soil Party
- George W. Bush
- Gerald Ford
- Gold Standard
- Grover Cleveland
- Harry Truman
- Inaugural Address
- Jimmy Carter
- Joe Biden
- John Tyler
- Know Nothing Party
- Martin Van Buren
- Millard Fillmore
- Nonconsecutive Term
- Patronage
- Pneumonia
- Poll
- Popular Vote
- President
- Protégé
- Ralph Nader
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Spoils System
- Teddy Roosevelt
- The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
- Third Party
- Typhus
- Vice President
- Watergate Scandal (1972-74)
- Whig Party
- William Henry Harrison
- William Howard Taft
- William Mckinley
- Woodrow Wilson
- Zachary Taylor