Government - Exam 2 - Chapter 7 - Political Parties
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What type of party best describes the Tea Party Movement? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Whigs and Democrats
🗑
|
||||
| show | A president and vice president from different parties
🗑
|
||||
| Who were the bulk of the supporters of the Democratic-Republicans? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Whig Party was equated with opposition to what president? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What event brought a party realignment? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What resulted from the 2008 elections? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In 1994, the ______ Party won its biggest nationwide victory since the Great Depression capturing the majority of both the House and the Senate. | show 🗑
|
||||
| In the 1980s, the Democratic Leadership Council had ______ as its chair. | show 🗑
|
||||
| In the 1980s, the Democratic Leadership Council lost some support of minority leaders, environmental and other liberal groups when it began to stress a commitment to ______ success. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Reagan Coalition
🗑
|
||||
| In the 2006 election, ______ took the House and Senate majority away from the ______. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Democrats, Republican
🗑
|
||||
| Parties & interest groups that function as intermediaries between individuals and government | show 🗑
|
||||
| Organizations that seek to achieve power by winning public office | show 🗑
|
||||
| Those who supported the US Constitution during the ratification process and who later formed a political party in support of John Adams’s presidential candidacy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Anti-Federalists
🗑
|
||||
| show | Majority
🗑
|
||||
| show | Plurality
🗑
|
||||
| show | Democratic Party
🗑
|
||||
| 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 🗑
|
||||
| show | Republican Party
🗑
|
||||
| popular label for the Republican Party | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | New Deal
🗑
|
||||
| show | Fair Deal
🗑
|
||||
| Policies of President Lyndon Johnson that promised to solve the nation’s social and economic problems through government intervention | show 🗑
|
||||
| Combination of economic and social conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and defense-minded anti-communists who rallied behind Republican President Ronald Reagan | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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 🗑
|
||||
| show | Party Polarization
🗑
|
||||
| Political Party’s entry in a general election race | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Nominations
🗑
|
||||
| show | Primary Elections
🗑
|
||||
| show | Machines
🗑
|
||||
| show | Patronage
🗑
|
||||
| show | Divided Party Government
🗑
|
||||
| Elections in which candidates do not officially indicate their party affiliation; often used for city, county, School board and judicial elections | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Caucus
🗑
|
||||
| show | Wards
🗑
|
||||
| Subdivisions of a city, county or ward for election purposes | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Closed Primaries
🗑
|
||||
| Primary elections in which a voter may cast a ballot in either party’s primary elections | show 🗑
|
||||
| Organized efforts by one party to get its members to cross over in a primary and defeat an attractive candidate in the opposition party’s primary | show 🗑
|
||||
| – Additional primary held between the top two vote-getters in a primary where no candidate has received a majority of the vote | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | General Election
🗑
|
||||
| Voters who identify themselves with a party | show 🗑
|
||||
| Persons who vote for candidates of different parties for different offices in a general election | show 🗑
|
||||
| Public officials who were nominated by their party and who identify themselves in office with their party | show 🗑
|
||||
| National and state party officials and workers, committee members, conventions delegates, and other active in the party | show 🗑
|
||||
| Nominating process in which delegates from local party organizations select the party’s nominees | show 🗑
|
||||
| Primary elections in the states in which voters in each party can choose a presidential candidate for their party’s nomination. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Delegates
🗑
|
||||
| Delegates to the Democratic Party national convention selected because of their position in the government or the party and not pledged to any candidate | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Platform
🗑
|
||||
| show | Planks
🗑
|
||||
| show | Party Identification
🗑
|
||||
| Declining attractiveness of the parties to the voters, a reluctance to identify strongly with a party, and a decrease in reliance on party affiliation in voter choice | show 🗑
|
||||
| Long-Term shift in social-group support for various political parties that creates new coalitions in each party | show 🗑
|
||||
| Third Parties that exist to promote an ideology rather than to win elections | show 🗑
|
||||
| Third Parties that arise in response to issues of popular concern which have not been addressed by the major parties | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Single-Issue Parties
🗑
|
||||
| show | Splinter Parties
🗑
|
||||
| Electoral system that allocates seats in a legislature based on the proportion of votes each party receives in a national election | show 🗑
|
||||
| What are congress's formally declared war? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Lubbock is in what congressional district? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is the current geographic strength of the Democratic party? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What person and group introduced the “New” Democrats to the public as a “re-branding of the liberal Democratic Party? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Following the Civil War, the ______ Party generally represented the northern industrial economy. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 1854
🗑
|
||||
| The Dixiecrats Party splintered from the Democratic party over the issue of civil rights and ran ________ as their nominee. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | George Wallace
🗑
|
||||
| show | political machine
🗑
|
||||
| show | Sectionalism, Economic Protest, Charismatic Personalities, Specific Issues, Ideology
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
K1N1V
Popular American Government sets