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American Gov. 9th ed
Chapter 6 vocabulary; Wilson & DiIlulio, Jr. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston NY
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| The citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching a minimum age requirement. In the United States a citizen must be at least eighteen years old in order to vote. | voting-age population |
| People who are registered to vote. While almost all adult American citizens are theoretically eligible to state, only those who have completed a registration form by the required date may do so. | registered voters |
| Bill passed by Congress(1993; make it easier for Americans to register to vote; law went into effect in 1995, requires states to allow voter registration by mail, when one applies for a driver's license, & at state offices that serve the disabled/poor. | motor-voter law |
| A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote; established to prevent former slaves from voting; illiterate whites can vote through "grandfather clause" | literacy test |
| A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. It was adopted by many states to prevent former slaves from voting; unconstitutional. | poll tax |
| A clause added to registration laws allowing people who did not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867; to exempt illiterate and poor whites from registration requirements; to keep former slaves from voting | grandfather clause (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1915) |
| The practice of keeping African Americans from voting in primary elections through arbitrary implementation of registration requirements and intimidation; declared unconstitutional in 1944. | white primary |
| A government-printed ballot of uniform size & shape to be cast in secret that was adopted by many states around 1890 in order to reduce the voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public. | Australian ballot |
| Individuals, usually outside of government, who actively promote a political party; philosophy, or issue they care about. | activists |
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