Chapter 5 (1 & 2)
This is the name given to the party that formed around Alexander Hamilton and that favored a strong central government.
What is the Federalist Party?
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution provides that the national and state governments may not deny someone the right to vote on account of this.
What is race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
This refers to the practice of redrawing electoral district lines in order to increase the voting strength of a favored group (or decrease the strength of an opposing group).
What is gerrymandering?
This characteristic of how electors are awarded (in 48 states) and how we elect members of Congress is one of the major reasons why we have a two-party system.
What is "winner-take-all"?
This is the primary contribution of minor parties in the U.S.
What is causing the major parties to adopt their ideas?
This was outlawed for federal elections by the 24th Amendment.
What is the poll tax?
This refers to that part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required States with a record of discriminating against racial minorities in elections to obtain the permission of the federal government before making any changes to those States' electoral processes.
What is pre-clearance?
In addition to the "winner take all" rule in electing members of Congress and awarding electors in the Electoral College, this is one of the other reasons why we have a two-party system.
What are (1) difficulty in getting on a ballot, (2) history of having two parties from the beginning of our country, and (3) ideological consensus?
This is the name of the committees in each chamber of Congress that raise money and work to elect candidates from their own party.
What are the Congressional Campaign Committees?
This refers to the laws in several States that permitted citizens to vote if they or their ancestors could vote prior to the adoption of the 15th Amendment.
What is the "grandfather clause"?
This refers to one's sense of how much he/she influences political outcomes.
What is political efficacy?
This is a system in which there are several parties with special interests.
What is a multi-party system?
This is the meeting of a national party every four years to (among other things) nominate that party's candidates for president and vice president.
What is the national convention?
These are the two reasons States have had minimum residency requirements according to your book.
What are (1) to keep a political machine from paying outsiders to come vote and sway an election and (2) to ensure that voters have lived in the State long enough to become familiar with the candidates and issues?
This refers to the practice of voting for more than one party in an election.
What is split-ticket voting?
These are the five traditional roles of parties.
What are selecting candidates (this is the #1 thing they do according to the book), activating/informing voters, acting as a "bonding agent," participating in governing, and acting as a watchdog?
These are 2 of the 4 types of minor parties in the U.S. that your book identifies.
What are ideological parties, single-issue parties, economic protest parties, and splinter parties?
This is the resolution in the Constitution of the issue of who decides voter qualifications.
What is the matter is reserved to the States (subject to the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments)?
These are two of the "sociological" factors identified by your book that influence voters.
What are views of parents, income, occupation, education, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, and geography.