AP government chapter 8 vocab
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| political participation | the many ways that people take part in politics and government
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| voting-age population | citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement
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| voting-eligible population | citizens who have reached the minimum age to be eligible to vote, excluding those who are not legally permitted to cast a ballot.
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| electorate | all the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election
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| suffrage | the right to vote in public elections
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| literacy test | a requirement that citizens show that they can read before registering to vote
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| poll tax | a requirement that citizens pay tax in order to register to vote
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| grandfather clause | a clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867
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| white primary | the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation
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| Australian ballot | a government printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public
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| voter identification law | laws requiring citizens to show a government-issued photo ID in order to vote
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| activists | people who tend to participate in all forms of politics
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