Question 9 • TX-US History Studies Since 1877 B-Credit Recovery Summer School
The 2008 election was historic because the Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama, who became the first African American nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. The campaign also took place during a recession and while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were ongoing, but those circumstances were not unique to this election in the same way.
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