American Government Ch. 5 & 6 quizlet
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| What are the 2 major political parties? | Democrats and Republicans
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| Name the National Symbols of the DEMs and GOB. | The DEMs - Donkey and the GOP - Elephant
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| What is coalition? | When various groups come together for a specific purpose.
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| What is the electorate? | The voting population.
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| What is incumbent? | When an elected official runs for an office he/she already holds.
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| What is injunction? | A court order.
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| What is a challenger? | A person who is running for an office, that he/she does not currently hold.
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| What is a bipartisan? | The 2 major parties work together to create and pass legislation.
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| What is consensus? | When a group comes to an agreement.
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| What is GOP? | nickname for Republican party.
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| 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
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| What is the DEMs? | nickname for the Democratic party.
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| What is the democratic national committee? | 1. The official name for the Democrat party
2. Helps the Democratic presidential candidate get elected
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| What is sufferage/franchise? | The right to vote.
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| What is partisanship? | When people work along party lines.
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| What is party in power? | The party that controls the presidency.
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| What is nominating? | The party attempts to get their canidates elected.
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| What is watchdog? | Where one party monitors & criticizes the other party
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| What is national convention? | Political parties' quandrannual polotical party that officially nominates each party's presiddential canidate.
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| What is general election? | When the voters officially elect the president of the U.S.
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| What is the electoral college? | Delegates from each state will vote based on the general election popular vote for a presidential candidate.
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| What is winner take all system? | The presidential candidate with the popular vote wins all of the State's electoral votes.
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| What is two-party system? | A government where 2 polotical parties hold all of the power. The USA is an example.
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| 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.
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| What is the size of the electoral college? | 538
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| What is the Minimum number of electoral college votes a president needs to win the white house? | 270
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| 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.)
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| 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.
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| What is an polotical party? | A formal group that seeks to control government through winning of elections and holding public pffices.
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| What are single-issue parties? | When voters only focus on one public policy problem.
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| What are idealogical parties? | Polotical parties based on a particular set of beliefd, a comprehensive view of social, economic, and polotical matters.
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| What are economic protest parties? | Polotical parties based on a single economic issues like a poor economy or lack of jobs.
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| What is splinter parties? | Political parties that have split away from one of the two major parties.
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| What is ward? | A political unit into which citizens are often divided for the election of city council members.
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| What is precinct? | The smallest unit of election administration: the voters in each precinct report to one polling place.
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| 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
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| What is the 19 amendment? | All citizens get the right to voter regardless of a gender
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| What is the 23 amendment? | The residence of Washington, DC get the right to vote for president.
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| What is the 24 amendment? | Poll taxes are outlawed
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| What is intimidation? | A racial minority was beaten or killed in an attempt to go through the voting process.
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| What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957? | Established the Civil Rights Comission
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| 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.
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| 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
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| What is the voting rights act of 1965? | Eliminated discrinination at every level of voting and is related to the 15 amendment
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| Why people do not vote? | 1. Not registered to vote
2. Politically apathetic
3. too ill to vote
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| What is an independent politically? | someone who does not identify with one polotical party
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| What is a one party system? | The system of Government operated in a dictatorship
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| What are factions? | Conflicting groups
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| What is sectionalism? | A devotion to the interest of a particular region.
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| What is disenfranchised? | Denied the right to vote
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| What is poll tax? | A small tax imposed by several states as a qualification for voting
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| What are aliens? | Foreign-born residents who have not become citizens, denied the right to vote.
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| What are transients? | Persons living in the state only for a short time, not eligible to vote.
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| What is registration? | A procedure of state voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting.
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| What is purge? | The removal of the names of individuals who are no longer eligible to vote.
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| What is poll book? | The official lists of qualified voters in each precinct.
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| What is gerrymandering? | The practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting stregnth of a particular group pr party.
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| 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.
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| What is of year mid term election? | The congressional elections held in the even numbered years between presidential election.
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| What is ballot fatigue? | Voters cast fewer votes for offices listed toward the bottom of the ballot.
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| What is political efficay? | Feeling that one has an influence on politics, or feeling like one's vote matters.
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| What is polotical socialization? | The process by which people gain their polotical attitudes and opinions
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| What is gender gap? | The measurable differences between the voting choices of men and women.
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| 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.
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| What is straight-ticket voting? | The pratice of voting for the candidates of more than one party in an election
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| What is independent? | A term used to identify those people who have no party affiliation.
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| What is the 24 amendment? | It outlawed poll taxes, or a tax required to vote
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| what are the 2 voting trends in US history? | More people gaining the right to vote and the federal government setting voting requirements
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| 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
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| Who were the persons denied the right to vote? | People in prison, mentally incompetent, guilty of election fraud, and others.
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| Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? | Led voter registration drive in Selma Alabama; him and other marchers attacked by state police.
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