Voting & Elections
The least likely to turn out to vote:
What are young people?
Unlike interest groups, political parties hold:
What are partisan labels?
Marked the beginning of California's statehood:
What is the Gold Rush?
Direct Action attempting to influence government decisions (by interest groups).
What is lobbying?
This individual signs off on whether a bill becomes a law or is vetoed:
What is the president?
The learning of our political values and opinions:
What is political socialization?
The leading ideologies of the Democratic and Republican Parties:
What is Liberalism and Conservatism?
This act legalized slavery and removed Natives from their lands:
What is The California Act for the Government Protection of Indians?
The main purpose of an interest group:
What is seeking to influence public policy?
What is influencing government through direct action?
Citizens elect representatives and participate indirectly in democracy:
What is a representative government? (or representative democracy)
To win the presidency, a candidate needs:
What is a majority of EC votes; 270?
Large groups of voters change their support from one party to another due to impactful events:
What is an electoral realignment?
California's Legislative Branch consists of 2 chambers:
What is the California Assembly and CA State Senate?
Reaping the benefits that a group provides without assisting in the creation of those benefits:
What is free-riding?
Congress' dual roles.
What is making laws for the country and representing their constituency?
During primaries, candidates focus too much on their party base, which results in:
What is alienating moderate general election voters?
During the 2nd party system, Andrew Jackson dropped the party name "Democratic-Republicans" and called his party:
What is the Democratic Party?
A monopoly owned by the Big Four that transformed CA politics and was marked with corruption:
What is the Southern Pacific Railroad?
This type of interest group aims to improve the conditions of society:
What is a public interest group?
2 additional powers of Congress beyond legislation:
What is Oversight?
What is Impeachment?
What is advice and consent?
This case established that limits on soft money donations violated donor's first amendment / freedom of speech:
What is McConell vs FEC
This triggered the ideological switch of the two main political parties in the 60's, ESPECIALLY in the South:
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The 3 components of CA's direct democracy:
What is the initiative, referendum, and the recall?
A proposition enacted by major corporations like Uber, seeking to prevent AB5 from becoming law:
What is Prop 22?
This tool makes debate in the Senate chaotic:
What is the Filibuster?