Voting Rights
This amendment granted women’s suffrage at the national level.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This type of election has the highest voter turnout. (use the AP Gov term)
What is a general election?
This term refers to rallying support and getting voters excited about the party.
What is mobilization?
This is closed meeting of voters begins with a discussion and ends with a public vote.
What is a caucus?
This type of donation is given directly to a candidate’s campaign.
What is hard money?
A voter who chooses a candidate based on the campaign promises that he or she made would be demonstrating this model of voting behavior.
What is prospective voting?
This term refers to restrictions that are put into place by a government that limit certain individual’s ability to vote.
What are structural barriers?
This type of election is the primary reason that third parties struggle to be relevant in American politics.
What is winner take all?
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
What are 270?
The Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC stated that independent spending by corporations is protected by this Constitutional amendment.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This amendment outlawed the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This characteristic is the strongest predictor of voter turnout.
What is education level?
This term refers to a problem that interest groups deal with. It’s when citizens benefit from a group’s work but they don’t contribute to it.
What is the free rider problem?
Democrats typically use this delegate allocation method at their nominating conventions.
What is proportional?
This type of interest group focuses solely on getting certain candidates elected.
What is a political action committee?
This law was enacted in order to better enforce the 15th Amendment.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This term refers how much a person’s political participation matters.
What is political efficacy?
Political scientists use this term to describe an election that shifts the electorate in some way.
What is a critical election?
This term refers to the idea that sitting candidates have a huge advantage over challenging candidates.
What is the incumbency advantage?
This “social welfare organization” does not have to disclose campaign donations.
What is a 501 C 4?
This voting related amendment was ratified faster than any other in American history.
What is the 26th Amendment? (Voting age lowered to 18)
This president’s election saw the highest voter turnout in American history since 1900.
Who is Joe Biden?
This interest group works to ensure that the civil liberties of all citizens are protected.
What is the ACLU?
When the Supreme Court ended a recount in 2000, this person was given Florida’s electoral votes and therefore declared the winner of the election.
Who is George W. Bush?
This government agency is, outside of the FEC, the most responsible for tracking campaign finance.
What is the IRS?