Political Parties and Ideologies
Political parties in the United States are built around this.
What are the principles or ideas?
This political party would most likely endorse pro-life policies.
What is the Republican Party?
Economic sanctions, withdrawal of diplomatic officials, military action, and resolutions to the United Nations are all examples of actions the United States may take against this type of foreign nation.
What is a hostile nation?
The 15th, 19th, 23rd, and 26th Amendments all deal with this issue.
What are voting rights?
Which political party is more likely to push for gun-control?
What is the Democratic Party?
This is when a party has several candidates who go against one another in an election to determine who will face the candidate of the other party in a general election.
What is a primary election?
This is the main purpose of the press.
What is serve as a check on the government by reporting on the government's actions?
What is FALSE!!!!
Alexis de Tocqueville's quote that we read in class expressed that he saw equality in the United States except when it came to this central right.
What is the right to vote?
The U.S. Constitution has this many amendments in it.
What is 27?
This is the name given to a political party's philosophy, principles, and positions on various issues.
This describes when the government spends more money than they actually bring in with taxes.
What is deficit spending?
These are TWO examples of economic sanctions.
What are:
- trade embargoes
- freezing of assets
- travel restrictions
- bans on cash transfers
- tariffs
This amendment allows for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This has greatly helped elected officials communicate with the American public in the 21st century.
These are the three levels at which political parties are built around.
What are local, state, and national levels.
This is the practice of carving up voting districts in a state to benefit one particular political party over another.
What is Gerrymandering?
This type of person would argue that the United States should never be involved in foreign wars, conflicts, or affairs.
What is an isolationist?
This is the difference between lobbyists and special interest groups.
Lobbyists are paid individuals who speak to either politicians directly or to the public in hopes of changing legislation. Special Interest Groups are the groups who pay lobbyists to perform those actions on behalf of a particular cause.
This is the nickname given to third parties when they take votes away from one of the major parties and cost them an election.
What is a "spoiler role" or "spoiler party?"