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Am. gov. Ch. 5&6
American Government Ch. 5 & 6 quizlet
Question | Answer |
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What are the 2 major political parties? | Democrats and Republicans |
Name the National Symbols of the DEMs and GOB. | The DEMs - Donkey and the GOP - Elephant |
What is coalition? | When various groups come together for a specific purpose. |
What is the electorate? | The voting population. |
What is incumbent? | When an elected official runs for an office he/she already holds. |
What is injunction? | A court order. |
What is a challenger? | A person who is running for an office, that he/she does not currently hold. |
What is a bipartisan? | The 2 major parties work together to create and pass legislation. |
What is consensus? | When a group comes to an agreement. |
What is GOP? | nickname for Republican party. |
What is the Republican National Committee? | 1. The official name for the Republican party at the national level. 2. Helps the GOP presidential candidate get elected |
What is the DEMs? | nickname for the Democratic party. |
What is the democratic national committee? | 1. The official name for the Democrat party 2. Helps the Democratic presidential candidate get elected |
What is sufferage/franchise? | The right to vote. |
What is partisanship? | When people work along party lines. |
What is party in power? | The party that controls the presidency. |
What is nominating? | The party attempts to get their canidates elected. |
What is watchdog? | Where one party monitors & criticizes the other party |
What is national convention? | Political parties' quandrannual polotical party that officially nominates each party's presiddential canidate. |
What is general election? | When the voters officially elect the president of the U.S. |
What is the electoral college? | Delegates from each state will vote based on the general election popular vote for a presidential candidate. |
What is winner take all system? | The presidential candidate with the popular vote wins all of the State's electoral votes. |
What is two-party system? | A government where 2 polotical parties hold all of the power. The USA is an example. |
What is the historical basis for 2 party system? | Emergence of the America's 2 major factions, federalists and anti-federalists, that disgreed about the National bank and interpretation of Article 1,Sect. 8, 18th Elastic Clause. |
What is the size of the electoral college? | 538 |
What is the Minimum number of electoral college votes a president needs to win the white house? | 270 |
What is multipary? | A system in which several major and many lesser parties exist, seriously compete for & actually win offices. (Feature of most European democracies.) |
What is a minor party? | Any polotical party in the U.S. that is NOT the Democratic Party or Republican Party. Some say casting a vote for this party's candidate is throwing away your vote. |
What is an polotical party? | A formal group that seeks to control government through winning of elections and holding public pffices. |
What are single-issue parties? | When voters only focus on one public policy problem. |
What are idealogical parties? | Polotical parties based on a particular set of beliefd, a comprehensive view of social, economic, and polotical matters. |
What are economic protest parties? | Polotical parties based on a single economic issues like a poor economy or lack of jobs. |
What is splinter parties? | Political parties that have split away from one of the two major parties. |
What is ward? | A political unit into which citizens are often divided for the election of city council members. |
What is precinct? | The smallest unit of election administration: the voters in each precinct report to one polling place. |
What is requiremen ts to vote? | 1. Citizenship- must be a citizen to vote 2. Residency- must live in a district for more than 30 days 3. Age- must be 18 4. Registration- must register a month before voting 5. ID- must present a Govt. issued ID to vote |
What is the 19 amendment? | All citizens get the right to voter regardless of a gender |
What is the 23 amendment? | The residence of Washington, DC get the right to vote for president. |
What is the 24 amendment? | Poll taxes are outlawed |
What is a literacy test? | A method to disenfranchise racial minority from voter registration by giving them a reading test that was virtually impossible to pass. |
What is the Grand Father Clauses? | Another method to disenfranchise racial minorities, especially African Americans, by stating that one can only vote, if your grandfather was an eligible voters. |
What is intimidation? | A racial minority was beaten or killed in an attempt to go through the voting process. |
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957? | Established the Civil Rights Comission |
What is the Civil Rights act of 1960? | Required federal governmental referees to monitor states and local governments with a long history of voter discrimination. |
What is the Civil rights act of 1964? | elections anywhere in the US & directed the fed. attorney general to challenge the constitutionality of all the remaining poll tax / literacy tests being issued & impose preclerance req on any states thhat haf disenfeanchosed minority voters in the past |
What is the voting rights act of 1965? | Eliminated discrinination at every level of voting and is related to the 15 amendment |
Why people do not vote? | 1. Not registered to vote 2. Politically apathetic 3. too ill to vote |
What is an independent politically? | someone who does not identify with one polotical party |
What is a one party system? | The system of Government operated in a dictatorship |
What are factions? | Conflicting groups |
What is sectionalism? | A devotion to the interest of a particular region. |
What is disenfranchised? | Denied the right to vote |
What is poll tax? | A small tax imposed by several states as a qualification for voting |
What are aliens? | Foreign-born residents who have not become citizens, denied the right to vote. |
What are transients? | Persons living in the state only for a short time, not eligible to vote. |
What is registration? | A procedure of state voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting. |
What is purge? | The removal of the names of individuals who are no longer eligible to vote. |
What is poll book? | The official lists of qualified voters in each precinct. |
What is gerrymandering? | The practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting stregnth of a particular group pr party. |
What is preclearence? | Requiered by voting rights act of 1965, the prior approval by the justice department of changes to or new election laws by certian states. |
What is of year mid term election? | The congressional elections held in the even numbered years between presidential election. |
What is ballot fatigue? | Voters cast fewer votes for offices listed toward the bottom of the ballot. |
What is political efficay? | Feeling that one has an influence on politics, or feeling like one's vote matters. |
What is polotical socialization? | The process by which people gain their polotical attitudes and opinions |
What is gender gap? | The measurable differences between the voting choices of men and women. |
What is party identification? | The loyalty of people to a particular political party and the single most significant and lasting predictor of how a person will vote. |
What is straight-ticket voting? | The pratice of voting for the candidates of more than one party in an election |
What is independent? | A term used to identify those people who have no party affiliation. |
What is the 24 amendment? | It outlawed poll taxes, or a tax required to vote |
what are the 2 voting trends in US history? | More people gaining the right to vote and the federal government setting voting requirements |
What is the 15 Amendment? | Made it illegal to deny any person the right to vote based on race or color; gave Africian Americans the right to vote IN THEORY |
Who were the persons denied the right to vote? | People in prison, mentally incompetent, guilty of election fraud, and others. |
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? | Led voter registration drive in Selma Alabama; him and other marchers attacked by state police. |