Vocabulary
An immigrant who is legally authorized to live and work in the U.S. permanently, but is not a U.S. Citizen.
What is a Lawful Permanent Resident?
What are two ways you can be a U.S. Citizen?
What is "By birth and naturalization"?
The kind of party system that the U.S. has.
What is the two-party system?
The sum of many individual opinions, beliefs, or attitudes about a public person or issue.
What is public opinion?
This lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, as a result of the Vietnam War.
What is Ideology?
This establishes the equal protection clause and defines citizenship.
What is the 14th amendment?
The Republican Party is associated with the color ________ and has the __________ as its symbol.
What is red and elephant?
This is an example of an agent of socialization?
What is family/school/religion/friends/mass media?
Who is this?
Who is Ramiro (Tiktok daycare kid)?
A political party's statement of principles and objectives.
What is a platform?
The two most-widely held ideologies in the U.S. today.
What is Liberalism and Conservatism?
The Democratic Party is associated with the color ________ and has the __________ as its symbol.
What is blue and donkey?
The media serves as "______________" over the government.
What is "watchdogs"?
A person or candidate who is the current office holder of an elected official.
What is an incumbent?
An election in which voters determine their political party's nominee for an elective office.
What is a primary election?
A person who has a mix of liberal and conservative views.
What is a Centrist/Moderate?
This is the primary goal of political parties.
Ants communicate with each other using ___________.
What are pheromones?
This is how many electoral college votes a presidential candidate needs to win. (51%)
What is 270?
Political activists who embrace the core values of their party and are more likely to vote in primary elections than are centrist voters.
What is a Party Base?
In what country is the vault containing tens of thousands of crop seeds located?
Norway
This political party favors tax cuts.
What is the Republican Party?
________ _______ is a reflection of how news organizations work, regardless of a conservative or liberal leaning.
This is another name for a battleground state.