Source Validity
The term given to the process of verifying the factual accuracy of information presented in the media.
What is fact-checking?
The economic term given for the quantity or amount of a specific good or service that is available to the public for consumption.
What is supply?
This branch of the federal government has the ability to declare war.
What is Congress or the legislative branch?
The name given to the elections that occur before a general election, where voters are asked to pick candidates for THEIR political party only.
What is a primary election?
A person who attempts to influence lawmakers on behalf of an interest group.
What is a lobbyist?
A situation where an individual is primarily exposed to information and opinions that confirm their existing beliefs, often due to algorithms.
What is an echo chamber or filter bubble?
The economic term given for the quantity or amount of a specific good or service that is desired or required by the public for consumption.
What is demand?
These are 3 examples of domestic policy issues.
What are healthcare, police/criminal justice reform, taxes, social programs, etc.?
The system used to determine president of the United States, in which each state is given a certain number of votes depending on the population of that state.
What is the electoral college?
What are political parties and interest groups?
This is the most effective way to verify the origin of an image on social media.
What is a reverse image search?
This is the name given to the fundamental problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants and needs in a world of limited resources.
What is scarcity?
This is the term for a directive issued by the President that manages operations of the federal government.
What is an executive order?
This is the term given for a statement of the goals and policies a political party support.
What is a political platform?
In order to get a true and accurate statistical representation of public opinion on different issues, researchers use this method when conducting polls.
What is random sampling?
These are four news sources that are generally considered reliable because they present facts and information ONLY about what is happening in the world of current events and leave out opinion and bias.
What are reuters, the associated press, the bbc, national public radio, the ny times, and the wall street journal?
These are three examples of things that might be affected by or the results of an increase in gas prices.
What are prices of consumer goods, car sales, delivery costs, uber/lyft costs, the number of people using public transit, etc.?
These are two ways that the president is able to influence foreign policy.
What is acting as commander-in-chief, negotiating treaties, and appointing ambassadors?
This is the political Party in the US that typically advocates for less government intervention in the economy and less government spending on social programs.
Who are the Republicans?
Sometimes called the "fourth branch of government", this platform/institution plays a huge role in shaping public opinion and influencing public norms.
What is the media?
This is the best way to verify the validity of an article that makes mention of a scientific study as evidence for their opinion.
What is finding and reading the original scientific paper or research publication?
The name given to an economic system where decisions about production and prices are determined by supply and demand, with limited government intervention.
What is a market or free market economy?
This is the main role or power that the House of Representatives has over shaping and forming domestic policy.
What is introducing and voting on bills that can become laws?
This is what laws that draw support from both political parties are called AND the name given to states that are split down the middle between Democratic and Republican voters and have greater influence over the outcome of presidential elections as a result.
What is bipartisan legislation or working across the aisle and what are swing states?
These are three examples of interest groups and the interests they represent that exist in the United States today.
What are the NRA (National Rifle Association), Greenpeace (environmental group), AFL-CIO (labor union interests), NAR (National Association of Realtors), NAACP, etc.?