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This was the period in which newspapers deliberately catered to one party or the other to ensure they had readership.
What was partisan press?
This man competed with the New York World with his own paper, the New York Journal.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
Deliberately drawing lines to favor one party over the other for the purpose of Congressional districts is known as this.
What is gerrymandering?
This refers to someone who already holds elected office.
Who is an incumbent?
This is the Article that governs the powers of the Presidency.
What is Article II?
This man operated the New York World and helped to create headlines that would lead to the Spanish-American War. He also has a famous journalism award named after him.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
This man was President the year the War Powers Act of 1973 was passed.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This is the step responsible for blending together the House and Senate versions of a proposed law.
What is the Conference Committee?
This describes that we have two co-equal chambers in our national legislature.
What is bicameral (or bicameral legislature)?
These are the only powers afforded to the Vice President.
What are to succeed the President and break a tie in the Senate?
This was instituted during the beginnings of broadcast news to limit information factual reporting.
What was the Fairness Doctrine?
This is the current Representative for Louisiana Congressional District #6 (the one you live in).
Who is Garrett Graves?
This office is third in line to the Presidency, is selected by the majority party in the House of Representatives, and has power over the schedule of the House Floor.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This refers to the President using the public against Congress when his popularity is high.
What is the bully pulpit?
This is the only way 3rd Parties have and will influence Presidential elections.
What is split the vote?
This was the reason the Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987.
What is there were multiple sources available to everyone?
These are your two US Senators.
Who are John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy?
Both the Majority and Minority parties in both chamber have these as a way to keep track of the number of votes on a given bill.
Who are the party whips?
This theory states the Presidency should be limited to only what the Constitution expressly says they can do.
What is the Whig Theory?
Name two features that give the President more control over foreign policy than domestic policy.
What are commander in chief of military, chief diplomat, appoints ambassadors, security agencies report directly to him, or executive agreements?
These are the three characteristics that make a story into something that is "newsworthy".
What are timely, dramatic, and compelling?
This was the President the moved to tie the Electoral College vote of a state to the winner of its popular vote because he was displeased over losing an election.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This committee will determine whether a bill is closed to amendments or open to amendment before it receives a floor vote in the House of Representatives.
What is the House Rules Committee?
This is the Wire Service the roughly 95% of all news organizations use to get the basics of their stories.
What is the Associated Press?
This begins in the House with a vote calling for a hearing and will conclude in the Senate with a trial headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
What is impeachment?