CH 8-12

Question 1

Reliability

Answer 1

Trustworthy

Paying attention to questions and wording

Question 2

Super Delegates

Answer 2

Delegates of the democratic national convention not bound to vote for any particular candidate usually prominent members of the party

Question 3

Electoral College

Answer 3

Votes in the national presidential elections are usually indirect votes for a slate of presidential elector pledged to each party

Question 4

3rd Party System

Answer 4

The Third Party System is a term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to describe a period in the history of political parties in the United States from 1854 until the mid-1890s that featured profound developments in issues of American nationalism, modernization, and race.

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

African Americans right to vote

Question 6

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 6

aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.

Question 7

Retrospective Voting

Answer 7

A particular powerful form of issue voting in which voters look back over the past term or two

Question 8

Issue advocacy

Answer 8

The process of campaigning to persuade the public to take positions on the issue

Question 9

Political Socialization

Answer 9

The process by which people learn about world politics

Question 10

Caucuses

Answer 10

a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy.
synonyms:

Question 11

PAC

Answer 11

Committees formed as the fundraising and financial distribution of interest groups

Question 12

Local Party Organizations

Answer 12

The initial point of entry for those seeking involvement in politics as volunteers organizers or candidates

Question 13

Participation

Answer 13

Mass political involvement through voting campaign work political protests and civil disobedience among many others

Question 14

19th amendment

Answer 14

Womens right to vote

Question 15

Suffrage

Answer 15

Right to vote

Question 16

Coattails effect

Answer 16

Occurs in election when voters also elect representatives or senators belonging to a successful presidential candidates party

Question 17

Federal matching funds

Answer 17

System under which presidential candidates who raise a certain amount of money i required way to apply for and receive matching federal funds.

Question 18

Representative Sample

Answer 18

Includes all the significant characteristics of the total population

Question 19

Closed Primaries

Answer 19

A system conducting primary elections in which only citizens registered as members of a particular political party may participate in that partys primary

Question 20

First Institutional Party System

Answer 20

Federalist

Democratic- Republican

Question 21

Platform

Answer 21

Declared policy

Question 22

Referendum

Answer 22

general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.

Question 23

24th Amendment

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prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

Question 24

Effect voting

Answer 24

Education
Social status
Age
Marital status

Question 25

Contingency Election

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An election held in the white house if no candidate receives the required majority in the electoral college

Question 26

Initiative

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Proposal submitted by the legislature to the public during election

Question 27

Straw poll

Answer 27

Non scientific method of measuring public opinion

Question 28

Machine Politics

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Organizational style of local politics in which party bosses traded jobs money and favors for votes and campaign support

Question 29

Open primaries

Answer 29

A system conducting primary elections in which citizens vote in whichever partys primary they chose

Question 30

Public Opinion

Answer 30

The collective expression of attitudes about the prominent issues of actors of the day

Question 31

Split Ticket Ballots

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Ballots on which people vote for candidates from more than one party

Question 32

26th Amendment

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Voting for age of 18 or older

Question 33

Soft Voting

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Campaign contributions directed to advocating the interest of political party or an issue in general rather than a candidate

Question 34

RANDOM SAMPLE

Answer 34

A strategy requires for a valid poll whereby every member of the population has an equal chance of appearing in the sample