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| Political Party | a group of people joined together on the basis of common principles, who seek to control government and public policy |
| Major parties | the dominant political parties in the United States |
| Minor party | parties that have broken off from one of the major parties |
| Electorate | the people eligible to vote in any given election in America |
| Literacy | a person’s ability to read or write, it is no longer used as criteria for voting |
| Split -ticket voting | ____ is the practice of voting for candidates of more than one party in any one election. |
| People who are strongly loyal to a given party have strong ____. | Party Identification |
| The right to vote is known as ____. | Suffrage |
| Nomination | is the naming of a candidate who will seek election for a public office. |
| Open Primary | is a party nominating election in which any qualified voter can participate |
| describe minor parties? | members of a minor party are united by a particular group of viewpoints |
| In the United States, a political party is made up of a group of people who | work to get candidates elected to political offices |
| Although United States political parties focus on winning elections, most political parties in other countries also | have certain principles they want adopted by government |
| Membership in either of the two major parties is | based on personal choice |
| The functions of the major parties in United States politics include | nominating candidates for office, insuring the good performance of their elected candidates, and providing a mechanism for th conduct of government |
| A one-party system | exists in nearly all dictatorships today |
| An increasing number of Americans today | identify with neither political party |
| In the past, some States limited voting rights by | charging a poll tax |
| significant reasons for nonvoting in United States elections today | long term mental or physical illness or illness on an election day, rules and regulations that make registration and voting cumbersome, and apathy or distrust of politics |
| expansion of suffrage in the United States | has been moved forward by amendments and civil rights acts |
| Which act first established a federal commission to investigate claims of individual voter discrimination? | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| suffrage is | states require that any person wishing to vote must meet specific qualifications for citizenship, age and residence |
| Today many States require that all voters | be citizens of the United States and residents of the State |
| In general, more of the electorate votes | in general federal elections |
| People with no sense of political efficacy | feel that any choice they make will have no effect |
| keep African Americans from voting | poll taxes, literacy tests, and threats and social pressures. |
| To prevent fraudulent voting, most States require voters to | register |
| The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, did not secure the right of African Americans to vote primarily because | Federal Government did not intervene to uphold the amendment. |
| The nominating stage is important in the electoral process mostly because | nominations set real limits to the choices voters can make in general elections |
| In a closed primary | only declared party members may vote |
| The most expensive item in a typical campaign budget is | TV ads |
| The Federal Election Commission enforces laws in each of the following areas | disclosing of campaign financial information , limiting campaign contributions to PAC's, providing public funding for parts of the election process |
| Both major parties try to | appeal to as many voters as possible |
| The amendments to the 1965 Voting Rights Act | eliminated all literacy qualifications, broadened the law's preclearance provisions to cover other minority groups, and required ballots to be printed in both English and the language of the minority involved |
| The States can set any qualifications they choose for voting, so long as those qualifications | do not violate any restriction or provision set out in the Constitution |
| Abortion | Republicans= against it, Democrats= let people choose |
| Guns | Republicans= let people have them Democrats= want gun control |
| Taxes | Republicans=tax cuts- Democrats= tax the rich more |
| Government | Republicans= less government Democrats= want more government to help people |
