Key Terms
Political Involvement
SCOTUS
Minority Groups
Ideologies and Polls
100
The science of population changes
what is demography?
100
These are the two types of political participation.
What is Conventional and unconventional?
100
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of education?
100
This Act ended racial discrimination in many public spaces for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act 1964?
100
a set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose that helps give meaning to political events, personalities, and policies.
What is political ideology?
200
the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation.
What is the melting pot?
200
This is a type of extreme unconventional participation.
What is civil disobedience?
200
In this court case The Supreme Court cemented students' rights to free speech in public schools.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines
200
In this court case it was determined the INTERNMENT of certain groups was constitutional.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
200
The most common type of poll which tracks peoples opinions over time
What is a tracking poll?
300
a form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics like rallies
What is a protest?
300
This is a common example of conventional involvement.
What is voting, trying to persuade others, ringing doorbells for a petition, running for office, etc?
300
A Supreme Court case that held that federal courts could hear cases alleging that a state's drawing of electoral boundaries, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
What is Baker v Carr?
300
This amendment gave suffrage to women.
What is the nineteenth amendment?
300
People who generally distrust government and believe that private efforts are more likely to improve people's lives. often support traditional lifestyles. Small scope of government.
What are conservatives?
400
a technique used by polls to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey.
What is Random-Digit Dialing?
400
This is a way in which many Americans can have their opinions influence politics.
What is random sampling?
400
The landmark case in 1971 in which the Supreme Court for the first time upheld a claim of gender discrimination.
What is Reed v. Reed
400
The situation, likely beginning in the mid-twenty-first century, in which the non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the U.S. population and minority groups together will represent a majority.
what is minority majority?
400
"...the process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions - family, media, schools"
What is political socialization
500
This term refers to the power that the elderly have in voting
What is Gray Power?
500
This once highly viewed poll lost most if not all credibility after the election between President Franklin Roosevelt and Alf Landon.
What is 1936 Literary Digest poll?
500
A 1995 Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race, even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities, should be presumed to be unconstitutional.
What is Adarand Constructors v. Pena?
500
These were common tactics used in the Civil Rights movement.
What is: sit-ins, marches, and civil disobedience?
500
Self selection polls not accurate or scientific
What are pseudo polls?