• Laws enacted by southern
whites to segregate African
Americans in the late 19th
century.
• How does an initiative get put on a
bill?
• Signed petition
• The largest part of an American
political party
• Party-in-the-electorate
• Name the theory…
• Interest groups compete and
counterbalance one another
• Pluralist
• A party’s official selection of a
candidate
• Nomination
• What do both parties try to do?
• WIN
• Who creates bureaucratic agencies?
• Congress
• The method in which most polling is
done today
• By telephone
•Jim Crow laws
• Term that refers to the
fact that America will
no longer have a
white majority.
•Minority majority
• The Associated Press is an
example of one of these.
•Wire service
• The nations unofficial,
“newspaper of record”.
•The New York Times
• Short clips of political
speech lasting 15
seconds or less
•Sound bites
• Shot of a person
speaking directly into
the television camera
•Talking head
• A team of men and women seeking to
control the government by gaining
office in elections
•Political party
• The most common source for our news
• television
• Where the formal nomination for Dem
and Rep candidates for president
occur?
• National party
conventions
• A method used by public figures of
leaking stories to the press
• Trial balloon
• The specific goal of the presidential
nomination game
• Win delegates and win
the party nomination
• When is the party platform drafted?
• Before the convention
• Where does most money get spent
during Presidential campaigns?
• Media
• What was the significance of the
Presidential election of 1800?
• First transition of power in the history of
the world accomplished by voters
ballots
• In this US Supreme Court case, the
court ruled that a recount was legal as
long as it was applied to all counties in
the state
• Bush v. Gore
• This requires states to
register individuals to
vote when they apply
for, or renew, their
driver’s license.
• Motor Voter Act of
1993
• This group is
composed of all
people who might be
a group
•Potential group
• The problem of people not joining a
group, yet enjoying the same benefits
as if they had joined the group.
•Free-rider problem
• This means that ordinary people (like
you) can influence the government
•Political efficacy
• Something of valued that benefits
both actual and potential group
members
•Collective good
• How do Americans feel
about bureaucrats?
•satisfied
• This Civil Rights act of the 1960’s was
successful because it had clear goals
and methods to achieve its goal.
• Voting Rights Act of
1965
• What are Amtrak and the USPS
examples of?
• Government Corporations
• Why is the census important to states?
• Federal aid
• How often is a census conducted and
why?
• Every 10 years and cuz the Constitution
says so.
• What must a cop have in order to
arrest someone?
• Probable cause
• Evidence that is gathered without a
warrant is not admissable in court. This
is due to which rule?
• Exclusionary rule
• What is the first primary?
• New Hampshire
• Policies that give rights to those that
have been discriminated against over
the course of history.
• Civil rights
• The process through which an
individual acquires his or her own
political orientations
• Political socializatiion
• Largest group of the minority majority
• African -Americans
• Which part of the Bill of Rights forbids
self-incrimination?
• 5th Amendment
• Where would you find the phrase, “all
men are created equal”?
• The Delclaration of Independence
• What is the Miranda Rule?
• Informs an accused person of their
rights
• Who REALLY chooses the President?
• The Electoral College
• This forbids states from denying equal
protection of the laws.
• 14th Amendment
• What is the “gray liberation”?
• The fight for the rights of the elderly
• The distribution of the population’s
beliefs about politics and policy issues.
• Public opinion
• The science of human populations
• demography
• The goal of affirmative action
• Move towards equal results
• The first presidential caucus
• Iowa
• The largest federal agency
• Social Security Administraion
• This set the rules for selecting delegates
to the Democratic National
Convention
• McGovern-Fraser Commission
• Giving a job to someone as a favor
• Patronage
• Legal and constitutional protections
AGAINST the governement
• Civil liberties
• Organization of people with similar
policy goals
• Interest group
• According to this theory, interest
groups mean nothing
• Elitist
• Madison referred to parties and
interest groups by this term
• Factions
• Under the original constitutional
system, the person with the 2nd most
electoral votes became this
• Vice President
• Voting for legislation or a constitutional
amendment
• Referendum
• A staged press opportunity
• Media event
Amendment
• Gave women the right to vote
• 19th amendment
Civil rights
• Native Americans became citizens in
this year
• 1924
• How were questions orginally
submitted to the president?
• In writing
• When are exit polls taken?
• On election day, as people leave the
polling place
• Established the federal Civil Service
• The Pendleton Act
• Reporters using detective-like means
to break a story
• Investigative journalism
• Where is the establishment clause
found?
• 1st amendment
• The cozy relationship between the
press and politicians ended with these
events
• Vietnam and Watergate
• This act prohibits federal Civil Service
workers from active participation in
politics
• The Hatch Act
• The book that lists the top federal jobs
for presidential appointment
• The Plum Book
• The wise party selects policies that are
popular
• Rational-choice theory
• They are considered to be the
interpreters of civil liberties
• The Supreme Court
• Unreasonable search and seizure is
which amendment?
• 4th amendment
• When was the Bill of Rights written?
• 1789