Name: ______________
Date: ______________
Hour: ______________
Participation and Voting
Learning Guide
Define:
1. Political Participation
2.Conventional Participation
3.Unconventional Participation
4.Direct Action
5.Supportive Behavior
6.Influencing Behavior
7.Particular Benefits
8.Voting Turnout
9.Suffrage
10.franchise
11.Poll Tax
12.Literacy Test
13.26th Amendment
14.Progressivism
15.Direct Primary
16.Recall
17.Referendum
18.Initiative
19.Election
Answer:
20.Why are most Americans unwilling to engage in Unconventional Participation and
how might they change their view?
21. How does conventional participation reinforce the status quo and who is more likely
to engage in this participation?
22.How do supportive behavior and influencing behavior promote the citizenship?
23.What are the rule for voting in the electoral system and how do they promote
democracy?
24. How were African Americans denied the right to vote and how did they eventually
gain that right?
25.How were women denied the right to vote and how did they eventually gain that
right?
26.How does voting serve democratic government and how does this promote
democracy?
27.What does a persons level of education indicated about their habits of voting?
28.Why is voter turnout low in the United States and does this hinder democracy?
29.What role does equality play in the election process?
30.What role does freedom play in the election process?