United States presidential election, 2000

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/united-states-presidential-election-2000

1. What is the election year?
2. What is the republican nominee?
3. What happened in the 2000 US presidential election that made it feel like a tie?
4. Why did the Supreme Court stop the recount in Florida?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the election year?2000
2. What is the republican nominee?George W. Bush
3. What happened in the 2000 US presidential election that made it feel like a tie?The race was so close that the winner was decided by only 1,784 votes in Florida, which started a recount and a big court case.
4. Why did the Supreme Court stop the recount in Florida?The Court said the way the ballots were being counted was not the same everywhere, so it would be unfair to keep counting.

Undervote: A ballot where a voter did not cast a vote for a particular office.
Hanging Chad: A piece of a punch-card ballot that remains attached after being punched.
Equal Protection Clause: A part of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment that requires states to treat all individuals equally under the law.
Electoral College: A body of electors established by the U.S. Constitution, constituted every four years for the sole purpose of electing the President and Vice President.