The Media
Voting Rights
Immigration
The Civil Rights Movement
The Public
Voting Trends
200
In recent years, the growth of this type of "new media" has significantly increased the public's interest in partisan politics.
What is social media?
200
The Vietnam War-era argument that if Americans were old enough to fight in a war, they were old enough to vote, supported the passage of this law that set the voting age at 18 years old nationwide.
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
This is the legal process by which a person can become a citizen of another country.
What is naturalization?
200
The efforts of this minority group are largely responsible for the increase in civil rights for other groups.
What are African Americans?
200
This is a collection of views on public issues held by large numbers of people.
What is public opinion?
200
An overall decline in the strength of the major parties has contributed to this voting trend, which moves away from the tendency to vote only for candidates from a single political party.
What is split-ticket voting?
400
This is a brief, attention-grabbing statement.
What is a sound bite?
400
Identify the three de jure practices the South used after the Civil War to restrict voting by African Americans.
400
This immigrant group primarily came to the U.S. as refugees from their Caribbean island nation.
Who are Cuban Americans?
400
The actions of this civil rights leader, made famous by his "I Have A Dream" speech, helped spur the passage of numerous civil rights laws.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
This factor is the single best predictor of an individual's opinion about whether or not to end Social Security.
What is age?
400
This voting trend led to many Republican candidates being elected at the same time as the popular Republican President Ronald Reagan.
What is the coattail effect?
600
These are methods of communication that reach a large number of people.
What is mass media?
600
This federal law prohibited literacy tests and other discriminatory practices in elections held anywhere in the U.S.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
600
This law ended the country-based quota system that had originally been established by the National Origins Act of 1929.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
600
This woman's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, is an example of the impact of political changes that can be brought about by an individual.
Who is Rosa Parks?
600
In American politics, this term is used to describe the instructions or commands that voters give elected officials.
What is "mandate"?
600
Members of this age group have shown themselves to be less likely to vote than any other age group.
Who are 18- to 24-year-olds?
800
A political expert who offers commentary is given this title.
What is a pundit?
800
This provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited new election laws and changes in existing election laws, in certain states, unless first approved by the Department of Justice.
What is preclearance?
800
From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed here.
What is Ellis Island?
800
The civil rights movement used this tactic to put pressure on Congress to pass the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
What was nonviolent protest?
800
These are issues that concern the people at large.
What are public affairs?
800
This term is used to describe an individual's belief that their vote can make a difference.
What is political efficacy?
1000
The media most often influences politics in this way.
What is "by selecting what issues to highlight".
1000
The residency criteria for voting in State elections changed as a result of the passage of this set of laws.
What are the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970?
1000
This 1986 law made it a crime to hire an illegal alien and established a one-year amnesty program for illegal aliens to become legal residents.
1000
This law was unable to require the desegregation of private schools because they did not receive funding from the federal government.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
1000
Interviewing randomly chosen people in randomly chosen area codes is an example of this method of gauging public opinion.
What is scientific polling?
1000
A Republican voter's decision to support a Democratic candidate who served in the military is an example of this type of election trend.
What is a short-term factor?