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Political Parties
History of Two-Party System
Voting History
Non Voters
Voting Behavior
100
A union of persons of diverse interests who have come together to get their candidates elected to public office.
What is coalition?
100
Only two party's candidates have a reasonable chance of winning public office.
What is the two-party system?
100
A test used to insure that the voter could cast an informed ballot.
What is a literacy test?
100
Greek citizens who didn't vote or take part in the public affairs.
What are idiots?
100
The process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization?
200
The dominant political parties in the United States.
What are major parties?
200
Contests in which only one candidate is elected to each office on the ballot.
What are single-member district elections?
200
The potential voting population.
What is the electorate?
200
Lacking sense of your own influence or effectiveness in politics.
What is political effecacy?
200
The loyalty of people to a political party.
What is party identification?
300
The parties select candidates and then present them to the voters.
What is nomination?
300
The first political party to appear in America and was founded by Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Federalist Party?
300
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
300
When polls on the East coast affect voters on the West coast.
What is "time-zone fallout"?
300
The practice of voting for candidates of just one party in an election.
What is straight-ticket voting?
400
Parties that inform the people and stimulate their interests and participation in public affairs.
What is the informer-stimulation function?
400
The nations first secretary of state who led the opposition to the federalists.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
The practice of drawing the lines of electoral districts in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party.
What is Gerrymandering?
400
People who cannot vote due to disabilities.
What are cannot voters?
500
A group of people who seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office.
What are political parties?
500
The candidate who receives the largest number of votes cast for the office.
What is plurality?
500
Federal court orders.
What are injunctions?