Test Your Knowledge of U.S. Presidential Elections With This Quiz!

Tuesday voting began in 1845 when most voting Americans were farmers and Christians, and polling locations were few and far between. Since it often took a day to get to a polling station, Tuesday was selected for voting to avoid Sunday travel.

Although Kennedy squeaked by in the popular vote, he took 303 electoral votes, easily topping Richard Nixon's 219 and Harry F. Byrd's 15, to become the youngest and, so far, only Catholic president.

In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton received 2.8 million more popular votes, but she lost to Donald Trump, who gained 304 electoral votes to her 227.

In the 1936 election, Roosevelt took 523 of the electoral votes, 98.5 percent at the time. Reagan and Nixon came close to matching his achievement in the 1984 and 1972 elections, respectively. Reagan actually had 525 electoral votes but that represented 97.6 percent at the time.

Alexander Hamilton campaigned against Aaron Burr when he tied Thomas Jefferson in electoral votes (even though Burr was running for VP). This fueled the rivalry between the two, which ultimately ended with Burr killing Hamilton in a duel - a story now familiar to many Americans from the musical "Hamilton."

Although Lincoln did not win a majority in the popular vote, in the Electoral College he took most of the North, along with California and Oregon. South Carolina and six other states quickly voted to secede, leading to the Civil War.

Although Carter carried 23 states plus D.C. to Ford's 27 states, he won the popular vote at 50.1 percent and the electoral vote with 297 (to Ford's 240) and became the 39th president.

Texan Ross Perot announced his candidacy on CNN's "Larry King Live," and was leading in the polls until campaign turmoil lowered his standings and caused him to drop out. But he re-entered a few months later, and wound up with 19 percent of the vote.

Reagan was not a big fan of Bush, but it was former President Gerald Ford that he asked to be his running mate rather than Perot. Ford turned him down, so Reagan moved on to Bush.