Voting for a candidate to represent the district the district rather than voting directly on an issue or policy.
What is Candidate Voting?
100
Granted suffrage in 1961 to Washington D.C. residents in presidental elections.
What is Twenty- Third Amendment?
100
Racial restrictions eliminated in 1870 with the fifteenth Amendment.
What is Extension of Suffrage After Civil War?
100
Congressional leadership organized by political party.
A role Political parties?
100
Candidate Voting: Purpose to choose the winning candidate for office.
Issue/policy voting: Purpose to enact/ reject proposed law of constitutional amendment.
What is Candidate Voting v. Issue/policy Voting?
200
Proposed state law or constitutional amendment by citizens through a petition process.
What is Initiative?
200
A reading test citizens were required to pass in order to vote.
What is Literacy Test?
200
Guarantees right to vote to all races.
What is Fifteenth Amendment?
200
State laws determined and local party structure.
What is State and Local Organization?
200
When the Constitution was written, all states restricted voting to while male property owners.
During Suffrage and U.S. Constitution.
300
All voters of a state or county elect their representative.
What is At- Large?
300
A tax levied on voting.
What is Poll Tax?
300
Extends the right to vote to women.
What is Nineteenth Amendment?
300
Voting for candidates ofdifferent parties for different offices.
What is Split-Ticket Voting?
300
The extension of right to vote to all adult citizens.
What is Universal Suffrage?
400
Proposed law or state constitutional amendment referred by the state legislature to the people for a vote.
What is Referendum?
400
Direct vote of the people.
What is Popular Vote?
400
Organized in mid 19th century to gain right to vote for women.
What is Woman Suffrage Movement?
400
Each Party has a committee in the House and in the Senate that works to elect the party's candidates.
What is Congressional Campaign Committees?
400
Fundamental principle of democratic government.
What is Suffrage?
500
Only exist at state level and only in some states; no referendum or initiative at federal level.
What is Issue/Policy Voting?
500
The voters of a nation, state, city, county, or other district referred to collectively.
What is Electrorate?
500
Lowered age requirement to vote 18 in all states in 1971.
What is Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
500
System in which the chairmanship of a committee is given to the member with the longest continuous service.
What is Seniority System?
500
Voting for Candidates of the same party for all offices.