Parties
Instead of building up their own power, Jackson & Van Buren built up this organization.
What is the Democratic Party (or the Democracy)?
The swing region that has primarily decided U.S. presidential elections starting with Obama.
What is the Midwest?
The Civil Rights Movement often is portrayed in terms of his activism.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's the branch of government typically seen as the primary defender of civil liberties.
What is the judicial branch?
The main federal program that provides medical care to the elderly.
What is Medicare?
Vote-generating organizations that controlled many American cities going into the Progressive Era.
What were (urban) political machines?
Broke apart the Republican L, causing the Electoral College temporarily to favor Democrats.
What is Hispanic migration to the Southwest?
The relatively homogenous political, economic, & racial system that prevented party competition in parts of the U.S.
What was the Solid South?
A right mentioned nowhere in the Constitution that was long used to guarantee abortion access.
What is the right to privacy?
A controversial policy that gives families flexibility in education.
What are school vouchers?
Took away the power party leaders used to have over candidate ballot access.
What are primary elections?
The swing region that decided presidential election outcomes from the Sixties through 2004.
What is the U.S. South?
Helped keep itinerant (travelling) farm workers from voting in elections.
What were residency requirements?
Landmark case that allowed states to ignore the Bill of Rights in the 19th Century.
What was Barron v. Baltimore?
What is Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)?
Brief period when the United States only had one serious major political party.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Joe Biden's Democrats moved this state up in the nomination process after it saved his 2020 presidential bid.
What is South Carolina?
Refers to the northward movement of African Americans between the two world wars.
What was the Great Migration?
Laws that seemed oriented toward recreating slavery that motivated passage of the 14th Amendment.
What were the Black Codes?
Third-party presidential candidate who motivated Democrats & Republicans to eliminate deficit spending for years.
Who was Ross Perot?
Views American political history as being divided up into distinct periods of partisan alignment.
What is the Party System Approach?
A feature of 20th Century Southern voting behavior that made political scientists think voters had dealigned.
What is dual partisanship?
A vessel derived from Louisiana swamp boats that helped in WWII coastal invasions.
What was the Higgins Boat?
The partial application of the Bill of Rights to state governments.
What was selective incorporation?
The decade when the Social Security trust fund is expected to drop to zero.
What are the 2030s?