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Key Terms
Big Ideas
Politicians and Polling
Political Ideology
Previous Units
100
The science of population changes
What is demography?
100

What is a political party?

What is a group of people who try to get candidates elected and who create common goals (answers will vary)

100

Candidates use these to understand public preferences

What are polls?

100
Political ideology that promotes a stronger central government and a wide scope for the central government.
What is the liberal ideology
100

Women seeking to have bodily autonomy and more choice in society was a large part of ______________ feminism.

What is 2nd Wave?

200
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the census results.
What is reapportionment?
200

What is Fiscal Policy?

What is the government implementing changes in taxes and spending to impact the economy

200

People support a candidate because they see others are supporting them.

What is the bandwagon effect?

200
This demographic of people tend to identify themselves more with the liberal ideology over the conservative ideology.
What are younger people.
200

Does the Supreme Court have power over issues regarding redistricting/"Gerrymandering"?

What is Baker vs. Carr?

300
The process through which individuals in society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media and others
What is political socialization?
300

What is Monetary Policy?

What is the idea of the Federal Reserve adjusting interest rates, the reserve requirement, and cash supply to impact the economy

300

A type of poll where the information presented is misleading and purposefully trying to get people to answer in a certain way?

What are push polls?

300
This group of people are more likely to support spending on social services, oppose higher levels of military spending, and support the liberal ideology.
Who are women
300
  • Publius: Hamilton,     Madison, and John Jay
  • Federalist argument
  • Primary perspective     is we must create Checks and Balances and Separation of Powers to prevent tyranny
  • "Ambition must be     made to counteract ambition"

What is Federalist 51?

400
Relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole group being studied.
What is a sample?
400

Regarding Fiscal policy, Democrats would tend to believe... (two things)

What is higher taxes and more spending on government programs (safety nets)... answers could very

400

polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on election day

What are exit polls?

400
Party in government that believes the scope of American Government has become to wide range.
What is Republican party
400

Primary perspective is that an independent judiciary is imperative for a functioning supreme court; meaning, justices should have life tenures and salary protections so they can't be taken advantage of/undermined by the other branches of government

What is Federalist No. 78?

500
A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy.
What is political ideology.
500

Regarding Monetary policy: there has been an increase in inflation and the economy needs to be slowed down. What are the three things the federal reserve can do?

What is raise interest rates, raise the reserve requirement, and reduce the amount of cash in circulation?

500

a measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll

What is Margin of Error?

500
This group of people tend to be more conservative in their views.
Who are older Americans.
500

some rights are not specifically listed, but we can interpret the wording of the constitution that the right exists (such as the "right to privacy")

What is a "penumbra"?