Government - Exam 2 - Chapter 7 - Political Parties
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What type of party best describes the Tea Party Movement? | show 🗑
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show | Whigs and Democrats
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What was the result of the election of 1796? | show 🗑
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Who were the bulk of the supporters of the Democratic-Republicans? | show 🗑
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The Whig Party was equated with opposition to what president? | show 🗑
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What event brought a party realignment? | show 🗑
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show | Unified Democratic Party control of the government
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In 1994, the ______ Party won its biggest nationwide victory since the Great Depression capturing the majority of both the House and the Senate. | show 🗑
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show | Bill Clinton
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show | economic
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Southern whites opposed to affirmative action, religious fundamentalists, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives made up the _______. | show 🗑
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In the 2006 election, ______ took the House and Senate majority away from the ______. | show 🗑
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show | Democrats, Republican
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show | Political Organizations
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Organizations that seek to achieve power by winning public office | show 🗑
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show | Federalists
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show | Anti-Federalists
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show | Majority
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Election by at least one vote more than any other candidate in the race | show 🗑
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show | Democratic Party
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Formed in 1836 to oppose Andrew Jackson’s policies; it elected presidents Harrison in 1840 & Tyler in 1848 but soon disintegrated over the issue of slavery | show 🗑
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One of the two main parties in American politics; it traces its origins to the anti-slavery and nationalist forces in the 1850s and nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 | show 🗑
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popular label for the Republican Party | show 🗑
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show | New Deal
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show | Fair Deal
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show | Great Society
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Combination of economic and social conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and defense-minded anti-communists who rallied behind Republican President Ronald Reagan | show 🗑
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System in which competitive parties adopt a platform of principles, recruiting candidates and directing campaigns based on that platform, and holding their elected officials responsible for enacting it | show 🗑
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The tendency of the Democratic Party to take more liberal positions and the Republican Party to take more conservative positions on key issues | show 🗑
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Political Party’s entry in a general election race | show 🗑
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Political Party’s selections of its candidates for public office | show 🗑
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show | Primary Elections
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Tightly disciplined party organizations, headed by a boss, that rely on material rewards – including patronage jobs – to control politics | show 🗑
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show | Patronage
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show | Divided Party Government
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show | Nonpartisan elections
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Nominating process in which party members or leaders meet to nominate candidates or select delegates to conventions | show 🗑
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show | Wards
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Subdivisions of a city, county or ward for election purposes | show 🗑
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show | Closed Primaries
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Primary elections in which a voter may cast a ballot in either party’s primary elections | show 🗑
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show | Raiding
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– Additional primary held between the top two vote-getters in a primary where no candidate has received a majority of the vote | show 🗑
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Election to choose among candidates nominated by parties and/or Independent candidates who gained access to the ballot by petition | show 🗑
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Voters who identify themselves with a party | show 🗑
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show | Ticket Splitters
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show | Party-in –the-government
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National and state party officials and workers, committee members, conventions delegates, and other active in the party | show 🗑
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Nominating process in which delegates from local party organizations select the party’s nominees | show 🗑
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Primary elections in the states in which voters in each party can choose a presidential candidate for their party’s nomination. | show 🗑
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show | Delegates
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show | Superdelegates
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show | Platform
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Specific portions of the platform are known as ______. | show 🗑
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Self described identification with a political party | show 🗑
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show | Dealignment
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Long-Term shift in social-group support for various political parties that creates new coalitions in each party | show 🗑
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Third Parties that exist to promote an ideology rather than to win elections | show 🗑
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show | Protest Parties
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show | Single-Issue Parties
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Third parties formed by a dissatisfied faction of a major party. | show 🗑
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show | Proportional Representation
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show | The War of 1812, The Mexican War in 1846, The Spanish-American War in 1898, World War I in 1917, World War II in 1941
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Lubbock is in what congressional district? | show 🗑
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What is the current geographic strength of the Democratic party? | show 🗑
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show | Bill Clinton, Democratic Leadership Council
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Following the Civil War, the ______ Party generally represented the northern industrial economy. | show 🗑
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show | 1854
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The Dixiecrats Party splintered from the Democratic party over the issue of civil rights and ran ________ as their nominee. | show 🗑
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In 1968, the American Independent Party ran _______ on the issues of school desegregation and busing. | show 🗑
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A party organization that recruits its members with tangible incentives, such as jobs, and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity, is called a ______. | show 🗑
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show | Sectionalism, Economic Protest, Charismatic Personalities, Specific Issues, Ideology
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