Political Parties
This is the main purpose of political parties in the United States.
What is to offer choices to voters and promote shared ideas?
This is the total number of major party systems in U.S. history.
6
This official is the head of the executive branch at the state level.
Who is the governor?
This card allows someone to live and work in the U.S. permanently.
What is a green card?
This includes duties like paying taxes and serving on a jury when called.
What are legal obligations of U.S. citizens?
This term describes strong loyalty to one political party.
What is partisan politics?
This is a key feature of the Sixth Party System, beginning in the 1960s.
What is sharp political division and debate over social issues?
This group makes local laws, approves budgets, and helps manage how the city runs.
What is the city council?
Name two of the three main types of U.S. visas that allow people to temporarily live in the country.
What are work, tourist, and student visas?
The best example of a citizen responsibility—something encouraged but not legally required—is this action.
What is voting in elections?
In Federalist Paper #10, James Madison described factions this way.
What are harmful but natural, and controlled by checks and balances?
This party dominated the Third Party System after the Civil War.
What is the Republican Party?
This is the name of Kentucky’s state lawmaking body.
What is the General Assembly?
This is the legal process through which an immigrant becomes a U.S. citizen.
What is naturalization?
This system requires males ages 18–25 to register in case of a military draft.
What is the Selective Service?
At this large event, a political party officially nominates its candidates for president and vice president.
What is a national convention?
This president led the Fifth Party System, focusing on economic recovery and civil rights.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
While the mayor leads a city, this official is the top leader in many Kentucky counties, overseeing local government operations.
Who is the Judge Executive?
This is the legal protection requested by someone who fears persecution in their home country.
What is asylum?
This type of election allows voters to remove an elected official before their term ends.
What is a recall election?
At these meetings, party members come together to plan and choose party leaders.
What are party caucuses?
Disagreements over this fundamental concept shaped both the First and Second Party Systems.
What is the role and strength of the federal government?
This is the correct order of U.S. government levels from largest to most local.
Federal → State → County → Municipal
This is the correct order of the naturalization process for becoming a U.S. citizen.
What is get a green card → live in the U.S. for 5 more years → apply for the Naturalization test → pass the tests → take the oath?
This is a proposed law that citizens vote on directly with a “yes” or “no” vote.
What is a proposition?