Civic Engagement
This is the age you have to be in order to vote.
18 years old
What is the 19th Amendment?
Women gain the right to vote
What does "ideology" mean?
Political belief
When is election day?
(November 5th)
How old do you have to be to PRE-register to vote?
16 years old
What are historic barriers to voting? (Ways People of Color have been prevented from voting)
Poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, Jim Crow laws (segregation)
Republicans align with __________ ideology
Democrats align with ___________ ideology
R: Conservative
D: Liberal
How do we narrow down the presidential candidates in California?
A primary election
Ways you can make a difference in America are called ______________________ and include organizing a fundraiser, creating an issue website, organizing a letter writing campaign, etc.
Civic participation
What is the 26th Amendment?
Decrease the voting age to 18
A political party's goals/stance on an issue is called their
political platform
In what type of primary election can an independent voter NOT vote?
Closed primary.
They CAN vote in open primaries and blanket primaries
Having low political efficacy means the person likely...
will not vote
The process of manipulating a regions boundaries to favor one political party over the other
Gerrymandering
Explain a third party candidate "splitting the vote"
A third party candidate will take away votes from two major candidates-- sometimes making an unfavorable candidate win because we have a winner-takes-all system.
What are reasons the Electoral College was created?
To give rural states/opinions representation (they're not drowned out by larger populations)
The founders feared the uneducated population would not vote for the best candidate
In any given election, _____ amount of people choose NOT to vote.
2/3rd
How has the Voting Rights Act of 1965 changed America?
Ended intimidation practices and unfair laws that had prevented People of Color/minority groups from voting
What is 1 barrier to success for third parties?
1. Less influence: less supporters, less money
2. Too narrow platform: doesn't talk about all the issues voters care about
3. The way elections are structured (majority wins/winner-takes-all) means that it a third party candidate needs to BEAT both the Repub. and Dem.
If a candidate wins a majority of the votes in California, then ALL of California's 55 electoral votes go to that candidate. This is called...
Winner-takes-all system