History of Voting Rights
Your Right To Vote
Voting Trends /Process
Mass Media
Interest Groups
100
When the Constitution went into effect, who had the right to vote? 
white, landowning, males 
100

Why do most states have voter ID laws?

To prevent voter fraud 
100
Some people from what part of the country do not vote due to time zone differences which may lead them to believe their vote won't matter.
What is the west? 
100
List the 4 most common forms of media in order of influence

TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines

100
What is the main goal of an interest group?
To shape public policy
200
What was was the first territory to give women the right to vote? ( also what amendment gave women the right to vote?)
Wyoming,  19th amendment extended the vote to all women in the United States. 
200
What is the main reason states adopted residency requirements to vote?
to allow new voters to become familiar with the candidates and the issues. 
200
term for the process of voting only for one party in an election. 
What is straight-ticket voting? 
200
The media plays a large role in shaping what?
public agenda
200
What are the major differences between a political party and an interest group?
the making of nominations, their main goals, scope of interests
300
What is the practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party?
Gerrymandering
300
What law allowed all eligible citizens to register to vote when they apply for or renew a drivers license. 
 the Motor Voter Act
300
This occurs when a strong candidate running for an office helps to attract the voters to other candidates on the party's ticket.
What is the coattail effect? 
300
What do we call media outlets that report based on what political party they align with?
Partisan press
300
Were are most interest groups, lobbyists, and PACs located?
Washington D.C.
400
What amendment said no state can set the minimum age for voting at more than 18 years of age? 
26th amendment
400
What are three characteristics of someone who is not likely to vote?
They are young, unmarried, and unskilled  (People is South vote less and men are less likely to vote than women) 
400
Name one of two things that has an early and lasting impact on how someone votes. 
the influence of their family and school. 
400
Candidates and reporters often agree to interviews in order to create what?
A sound bite
400

What is an organization formed to collect money and provide financial support for political candidates.

 a political action committee
500
This law suspended the use of literacy tests and authorized the attorney general to appoint voting examiners to oversee elections where less than half of the electorate had been registered or had voted in the 1964 presidential election. 
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
List two groups of voters who are classified as "cannot" voters. 
mentally ill, resident aliens, felons, dishonorable military discharge 
500
In interesting paradox about the US voting is
the more people who have the ability to vote, the less will
500
What is the oldest form of mass media?
Newspaper
500

This interest group works in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

the American Civil Liberties Union
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