Wild Card
The act of using legal, but often unethical, means of preventing certain populations of people from voting.
What is voter suppression?
A group of people, joined together by certain common principles, who seek to control the government in order to implement certain public policies or programs
What are political parties
Holds beliefs that fall between liberal and conservative views, usually including some of each.
What is Moderate?
Gave African American men, over the age of 21, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Belief in the way government should run within a society.
What is Political Ideology?
Name any one group of people in the United States who cannot (or mostly cannot) vote.
Who are illegal immigrants, permanent residents, people in prison or a mental institution, people who are dishonorably discharged from the military, people under 18.
The roles that minor parties play when they highlight issues that the two-party system ignores or when they propose new solutions to problems.
What are critic and innovator
Seeks to keep in place the economic, political, and social structures of society.
What is Conservative?
This Congressional Legislation enforced racial equality at polling places.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What side of the ideological spectrum believes that all citizens should have equal access to affordable health care, quality education, a clean environment, and social safety net programs.
What is the left or liberal?
Usually the strongest agent of political socialization.
In 2000, the Green party led by Ralph Nader helped George Bush win the presidential election when he earned over 90,000 votes in Florida (the election came down to just over 500 votes). It is likely that many of those votes would likely have gone to Al Gore, Bush's competitor. In this role, Ralph Nader played what third-party role.
What is the Spoiler Role?
Believes that government must take action to change economic, political, and ideological policies thought to be unfair.
What is Liberal?
Amendment that provided women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Name at least two agents of socialization
Family, School, Peers, Religion, Geography, Gender, Ethnicity, Media
In what year were all Native Americans finally given citizenship?
What is 1924?
This is the main objective of political parties.
What is to win elections and control the government?
Favors extreme change to create an altered or entirely new social system.
What is Radical?
This Amendment was, lowering the voting age to 18, was propelled by the Vietnam War.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This political ideology is most aligned with believing the government should be hands-off with regard to civil liberties.
What is Libertarian?
The function of political parties ensuring the good performance of their candidates and elected officeholders.
What is the Bonding Agent?
The function of political parties in which elected officials participate in the lawmaking process then create laws that align with the ideals of their party
What is the "Governing" function?
Favors extreme change to restore society to an earlier, more conservative state of affairs.
What is Reactionary?
The Congressional Act that allows all eligible citizens to vote when they apply for a drivers license, allows voter registration by mail, and makes voter registration forms available local offices of state employment.
What is the Motor Voter Act
The process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization?