AP Gov Ch 11 - Alyssa Rosales

Question 1

Barack Obama

Answer 1

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency and previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois.

Question 2

Candidate centered politics

Answer 2

politics that focus on the candidates, their particular issues, and character rather than party affiliation

Question 3

critical elections

Answer 3

an election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities

Question 4

delegate

Answer 4

a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

Question 5

Donald J Trump

Answer 5

Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens.

Question 6

Hillary R Clinton

Answer 6

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

Question 7

national convention

Answer 7

a convention of a major political party, especially one that nominates a candidate for the presidency.

Question 8

national party platform

Answer 8

A political party platform or program is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public’s support and votes about complicated topics or issues.

Question 9

party identification

Answer 9

Party identification refers to the political party with which an individual identifies. Party identification is affiliation with a political party. Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports (by voting or other means).

Question 10

partisan polarization

Answer 10

Political polarization refers to the cases in which an individual’s stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party (e.g., Democrat or Republican) or ideology (e.g., liberal or conservative).

Question 11

party realignment

Answer 11

dramatic shifts in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape

Question 12

political machine

Answer 12

A political machine is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts. The machine’s power is based on the ability of the workers to get out the vote for their candidates on election day

Question 13

political party

Answer 13

A political party is a group of voters organized to support certain public policies. The aim of a political party is to elect officials who will try to carry out the party’s policies. A political party offers candidates for public office.

Question 14

proportional representation

Answer 14

an electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.

Question 15

secular realignment

Answer 15

an election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues, secular realignment. the gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system

Question 16

superdelegate

Answer 16

(in the Democratic Party) an unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party’s national convention.

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 17

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801

Question 18

winner take all system

Answer 18

The District of Columbia and 48 states have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.