Voting
Candidates
Vocabulary
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Questions
100
This is the legal age to vote.
What is 18?
100
Name one candidate running for the democratic party.
Who is Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders?
100
A change to the constitution is called an ________________.
What is an amendment?
100
This was the first republican president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The Democratic party started in this year when Andrew Jackson became president.
What is 1828?
200
The government of the United States is this. Extra two hundred points if you can define it.
What is a democracy. The people elect leaders to run the government.
200
Name a candidate running for the republican party.
Who is Donald Trump and Ted Cruz?
200
Define register.
What is signing up to vote?
200
In a policatl cartoon a drawing of an elephant represents which political party?
What is the republican party?
200
The republican party started in 1854 when _____________________ became president. He was the first republican president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
300
Name one way that people may not be allowed to vote in some states.
What is if they have a mental illness or have committed a felony?
300
Define Candidate.
What is someone who is running for public office?
300
Define poll tax.
What is money people had to pay in order to vote?
300
In political cartoons a drawing of a donkey represents which political party?
What is democratic party?
300
A man is going door to door asking for your vote. What is he doing?
What is canvassing?
400
When is the deadline for registering to vote?
What is a month before the election?
400
The two major political parties are the ______________ and the ___________________.
What is the democratic party and the republican party?
400
Define Citizen.
What is a member of a nation?
400
In the early years the two political parties were the __________________ party and the ___________________ party.
What is democratic-republican party and the federalist party?
400
Define Precinct.
What is a LOCAL area of a political party?
500
Name one of the requirements for voters.
What is all voters must be american citizens, 18 years old, and have lived in a state for at least 30 days?
500
The written plan for our government is called the ____________________.
What is the constitution?
500
Define minority party.
What is a third party that is popular for a certain length of time?
500
Name two things political parties do.
What is they get voters to vote, call voters, help with publicity, get speakers, help with campaign etc.
500
Define political parties.
What is an organized group of people who try to get their candidates elected to public office.
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