Civil Liberties
True or False: Rights not explicitly outlined in the Bill of Rights are not rights that we have.
False, the Bill of Rights is not designed to deprive people of rights that they naturally have.
This group is most likely to vote in local, state, and national elections.
The elderly
Belgium, Turkey, and Australia have higher turnout rates for voting because of this.
Compulsory voting laws (holiday)
This term refers to a group of workers who organize and act together to improve their working conditions.
A union.
Video and print news posted to the Internet or social media by citizens, rather than the news media, is referred to as what?
Citizen journalism
The fifth amendment protects against "this" EXCEPT when tried at a different level of government or in civil or criminal court.
Double jeopardy
The Fifteenth Amendment states that you cannot be denied the right to vote based on previous condition of servitude, but what is the exception to this?
Felony convictions, active jail time (except in a few states).
The invention of this (home-based) technology led to politicians focusing increasingly more on reaching out and connecting with citizens and voters in deeper ways.
Television
The legal term stripping married women of their separate legal identities from their husbands.
Coverture. +200 for additional rights they lost in this process.
The term used to describe a local station that broadcasts national network programming.
What is an affiliate?
Congress and states cannot create or promote a state-sponsored religion, also known as this clause.
The Establishment Clause
True or False: The most accurate way to tell how many people voted in an election is to look at the voting-eligible population (VEP) numbers.
False: while all metrics are a bit hard to gauge, registered voters are the group to look at in determining overall voter turnout.
Malcolm X advocated for a philosophy that focused on black Americans having economic, social, and political control over their own communities, also known as this.
Black Nationalism.
Why were women able to vote early, in many states, on matters involving liquor licenses, schools, and municipal matters?
Stereotypes surrounding their morality and concern for children.
Investigations of corruption and other problems in government or business are known by this name because of their effect of dragging up hidden information.
Muckraking
Citizens United (2010) established that free speech extended to donations by these entities.
Corporations
This term refers to the candidate that typically has the highest chance of winning an election.
Incumbent.
This federal statute requires public agencies to provide certain forms of information requested by citizens
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
What were some tactics used by the National Woman's Party (NWP) that made them more radical than other women's groups at the time?
They picketed outside the White House and, once arrested, went on hunger strikes.
True or False: Media coverage has led to more women running for political office than ever.
False.
If you object to military intervention in Afghanistan but no other wars, are you a conscientious objector?
No. +500 for an explanation as to why.
This kind of primary pits all candidates against each other, regardless of party affiliation.
Top-two primary, otherwise known as a jungle primary.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
This person argued that ironically, most, if not all white people in the US logically accept the ideas that all people, including slaves and freed Black people, are deserving of equal rights—despite their behavior to the contrary
Frederick Douglass
Name some ways (at least 2) that Native Americans were repressed by the government.
Trail of Tears, Dawes Severalty Act (if you assimilated you would be given citizenship and land), Curtis Act (allowed any tribal land not allotted to an individual to be sold to ranchers).
Does media more often engage in episodic or thematic framing?
Episodic. +500 for explaining the difference.