Category 1
These are the two major political parties in the United States.
What are Republican and Democrat?
This provides for freedom of speech, religion, and press in U.S. society.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Police offices need one of these, before they can search a person's phone.
What is a warrant?
This amendment allows citizens the right to buy firearms.
What is the Second Amendment?
These ten amendments list core freedoms and protect citizens from unfair government actions.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This right allow people to freely gather to protest or march, but the government can set a reasonable time, place, and safety rules.
What is freedom of assembly?
A ________ sample is used in polling to estimate national beliefs and measure of public opinions.
What is 'random?'
This term refers to the ways or manners in which specific questions are worded, which could mislead people's answers.
This amendment protects citizens against unfair and unreasonable searches.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
These are read to any person that is facing arrest so as to inform them of their rights.
What is the Miranda warning (rights)?
This amendment protects against forced confession.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This amendment ensures fair trials with legal counsel and impartial juries.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This terms refers to factors, such as family and religion, that shape your political ideals very early in life.
What are primary agents?
This terms refers to factors, such as friends and social media, that shape your political ideals later in life.
What are secondary agents?
This refers to the separation of political power between the national, state, and local governments in the U.S.
What is federalism?
This public opinion term refers to whether a person is 'pro' (in favor) or 'con' (against) a specific issue or candidate.
What is direction?
This public opinion term refers to how strongly an individual or group feels about a specific issue or candidate.
What is intensity?
This public opinion term refers to how important an individual feels a specific issue is compared to other issues in society.
What is salience?
What is the lifelong learning process of developing political ideals based on your parents, friends, media, etc.?
What is political socialization?
All accused individuals are provided this, which guarantees a fair trial and safeguards against government abuse.
What is 'due process?'
This amendment makes sure that states must respect the freedoms of citizens and apply equal treatment to all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This terrible ruling by the Supreme Court created sectional tensions before the Civil War.
What was the Dred Scot decision?
Segregational Jim Crow laws in public schools were reversed with the ruling of this court case.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
This unwritten and implied right, is recognized to protect personal decisions from government involvement or intrusion.
What is the right to privacy?
These factors, such as party identification, ideology, and group orientation, are formed through socialization and guide your political beliefs. (Bullet point)
What are frames of reference?
This term refers to the built emotional loyalty one has to either the Democrat or Republican party, and how they strongly shape your opinions and choices. (Bullet point)
What is party identification?
This protocol is used to assess whether the government's actions have a nonreligious purpose and if they avoid favoring a specific faith.
What is the Lemon Test?
This provision allows citizens the right to believe what they want, but actions can be limited by government laws.
What is the free-exercise clause?
In this court case, the Supreme Court affirmed implied powers and federal supremacy.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This term refers to the manner in which the government protected corporations while blocking labor and child labor protections in the 1920s. (Bullet point)
What is laissez-faire?