Transcript SSCG8 Review

SSCG8 Review
Split ticket
• Practice of voting for candidates of more than
one party on the same ballot
media
• Television, radio, newspapers, magazines and
the internet
Absentee voting
• Provisions made for those unable to get to
their regular polling place on election day
caucus
• A meeting of party leaders to discuss issues or
to choose candidates
incumbent
• Someone who already holds the office for
which he or she is running
Public policy
• The stand the government takes about how
issues should be handled
Public opinion poll
• Devices that attempt to collect information by
asking people questions
Political party
• An organization of citizens who wish to
influence and control govt. by getting their
members elected to office
Direct primary
• An election in which members of a political
party choose candidates to run for office in
the name of the party
suffrage
• The right to vote
bias
• A favoring of one point of view
registration
• Process of signing up to be a voter
precincts
• Voting districts
Independent voters
• People who do not support a particular
political party
ballot
• The device voters use to register a choice in an
election
propaganda
• A message that is meant to influence people’s
ideas, opinions, or actions in a certain way
canvass
• Go door to door handing out information and
asking people which candidate they support
nominate
• Name candidates to run for public office
platform
• Statement of the political party’s official stand
on major public issues
campaign
• A collection of all the efforts a candidates
makes to win an election
Announce your plan to run
• What is the first step in running for office?
National convention
• A potential presidential candidate campaigns
to win his party’s nomination at the…..?
Caucus and primary
• What are the ways a candidate can get
nominated by the general public?
National convention
• Where do political parties announce their
presidential candidate?
Every 4 years on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November
• When are Presidential elections held?
Electoral voters
• When people vote for President, who do they
actually cast their vote for?
Senate plus house members per state
• What determines the number of electoral
votes for each state?
270
• How many electoral votes are needed to win a
Presidential election?
Get sworn into office
• What does inauguration mean?
Primaries have candidates from the same party
run against each other and general elections
have the best candidate from each party run
against each other
• What is the difference between the primary
and general election?
Use media…especially tv
• What is the best way for a candidate to
convince large numbers of people to vote for
him or her?
To prevent people from gaining
influence over candidates
• Why are there limits on the amount of money
we can give directly to a political candidate?
19th amendment
• Which amendment gave women the right to
vote?
24th amendment
• Which amendment banned the use of poll
taxes in elections?
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?
26th amendment
• Which amendment lowered the voting age to
18 years or older
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
26th amendment
• Which amendment is associated with the
Vietnam War?
False-English Laws and Customs
• True or false? Colonists and early Americans
got their ideas about voting from French laws
and customs.
False-determined by Electoral College
• True or False? Our Presidential elections are
determined by the popular vote.
True
• True or False? You must be 18 years old by
Election day, live in the state in which you will
be voting, and a U.S. citizen in order to be able
to vote.
True
• True or false? The stand the government
takes about how issues should be handled is
known as public policy.
Democrats and Republicans
• What are the 2 main political parties here in
the U.S.?
Jim Crow Laws
• Although former slaves were given full
citizenship and voting rights in America, what
was used (in the South) to deny them their
rights?
Most former slaves could not read or write,
so they could not pass the test to vote
• How did the literacy test prevent African
Americans from voting?
Poor whites and all blacks
• What groups of people were targeted by the
poll tax and literacy tests?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Jim Crow laws basically cancelled out the 15th
amendment. What cancelled out Jim Crow
Laws?
A fee charged to vote
• What is a poll tax?
Grandfather Clause
• Which Jim Crow law would let you vote if the
father of your mom or dad had voted?
Two Party System
• What type of party system do we have in the
United States?
Supplying all campaign funding
• Political parties fulfill all of the following
functions EXCEPT
(a) acting as watchdog.
(b) informing and activating supporters.
(c) supplying all campaign funding.
(d) governing by partisanship.
They believe their vote will not count
• What is the reason most non-voters do not
vote?