Transcript Vocabulary from Night - Laurens County School District

SSCG8 and SSCG11 Review
bias
• A favoring of one point of view
caucus
• A meeting of party leaders to discuss issues or
to choose candidates.
nominate
• Name candidates to run for public office
registration
• Process of signing up to be a voter
media
• Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and
the internet.
Independent voters
• People who do not support a particular
political party.
Political party
• An organization of citizens who wish to
influence and control government by getting
their members elected to office.
platform
• Statement of political party’s official stand on
major public issues.
canvass
• Go door to door handing out information and
asking people which candidate they support
Direct primary
• An election in which members of a political
party choose candidates to run for office in
the name of the party.
Split ticket
• Practice of voting for candidates of more than
one party on the same ballot.
incumbent
• Someone who already holds the office for
which he or she is running.
campaign
• A collection of all the efforts a candidate
makes to win an election.
referendum
• Process where legislatures place a proposed
law on the ballot to allow citizens to vote the
law into effect?
precincts
• Voting Districts
propaganda
• A message that is meant to influence people’s
ideas, opinions, or actions in a certain way.
recall
• Voting to replace someone in office is known
as what type of election?
Democrats and Republicans
• 2 major political parties in the United States.
Must be 18 years old on election day, live in the state in
which you will be voting, and a U.S. citizen
• What are 3 requirements you must meet in
order to be able to vote?
24th amendment
• Which amendment banned the use of poll
taxes in election?
26th amendment
• which amendment lowered the voting age to
18 years or older?
23rd amendment
• Which amendment made it so that
Washington D.C. residents were able to vote
for the President and have electoral votes
based on population?
19th amendment
• Which amendment gave women the right to
vote?
initiative
• Process that lets citizens propose laws directly.
If citizens gather enough voter signatures, the
law goes on the ballot to allow citizens to vote
the law into effect?
26th amendment
• Which amendment is associated with the
Vietnam War?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Further protected the voting rights of all
Americans by reinforcing the 15th
amendment; outlaws voting practices such as
literacy tests.
lobbyists
• Represent interest groups and communicate
with officials?
November
• Presidential and Congressional elections are
held in which month?
English laws and customs
• Colonists and early Americans got their ideas
about voting from where?
advocate
• To support or promote?
Campaign financing
• How money is earned for political campaigns?
Interest Group
• Group of people who work to influence govt.
about a set of issues?
Political views
• Person’s ideas about how govt. should run and
how issues should be solved?
Political Action Committees
• Organizations that help interest groups raise
money for campaigns?
Electoral College
• Group of people elected by voters in each
state to elect the President and the Vice
President?