States and Policies
Citizens or residents get to vote on who runs the state.
State
System in which presidential votes are tallied at the state level, rather than from a simple national count of all votes.
Electoral College System
Social movement aimed at increasing civil and political rights and protections for African Americans.
Civil Rights Movement
The process by which people assert influence in official and sanctioned ways.
institutional politics
People influence the state and its policies by voting for representatives.
Representative Democracy
States where a large part of the budget is spent on social services.
Welfare State
Fee charged for voting
Poll tax
Social movement aimed at improving the status of women and reducing gender-based discrimination.
Feminist Movement
Efforts to influence politics outside of the official and accepted system.
Contentious politics
People vote directly on policies through a referendum
direct democracy
Government controls a single city and the surrounding area.
City State
Laws passed in Southern states restricting voting to only those individuals whose grandfathers could vote.
Grandfather Clause
Attempt to improve the existing system
reform movements
Individuals and organizations that organize protests and work to change public opinion on issues.
Social Movement Sector
government ruled by royalty
Aristocracy
Governments that are fairly permissive in economic affairs
Liberal States
The right to vote
Suffrage
Attempt to improve the existing system
revolutionary movements
Decision in 1972, which rooted abortion access in privacy rights, abortion has been available, to varying degrees, in all 50 states.
Roe v Wade
Voters have genuine options and alternatives when voting.
States with relatively high taxes that are used to pay for generous social services.
Social Democratic States
Federal law that barred states from discriminating against Black voters.
Voting rights act of 1965
Attempt to return to an earlier system
reactionary movements
Supreme Court decision that overturned the earlier Roe decision did not actually prohibit abortion.
Dobbs vs Jackson
Citizens or residents get to vote on who runs the state
Democratic Society