Voting Wild Card
Political Parties
Political Spectrum
Right to Vote
Odd & Ends
100
The act of using legal, but often unethical, means of preventing certain populations of people from voting.
What is voter suppression?
100
This party (as it exists now) typically upholds a more progressive or liberal ideology.
What is the Democratic party?
100
Holds beliefs that fall between liberal and conservative views, usually including some of each.
What is Moderate?
100
Gave African American men, over the age of 21, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
Major undertaking by the government every 10 years to count the number of people in the US.
What is the Census?
200
Name any one group of people in the United States who cannot (or mostly cannot) vote.
Who are illegal immigrants, permanent resident non-citizens, people in prison or a mental institution, people who are dishonorably discharged from the military, people under 18.
200
This party general holds a more traditional and conservative ideology.
What is the Republican party?
200
Seeks to keep in place the economic, political, and social structures of society.
What is Conservative?
200
This Congressional Legislation enforced racial equality at polling places.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
200
After the census is completed, legislatures adjust and edit precincts, wards, etc based on population shifts.
What is redistricting?
300
In 1965, the major political protest in the south that resulted in violence and created a national outcry, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the march from Selma to Montgomery?
300
In 2000, the Green party led by Ralph Nader helped George Bush win the presidential election when he earned over 90,000 votes in Florida (the election came down to just over 500 votes). It is likely that many of those votes which would likely have gone to Al Gore, Bush's competitor. In this role, Ralph Nader played what third-party role.
What is Green?
300
Believes that government must take action to change economic, political, and ideological policies thought to be unfair.
What is Liberal?
300
Amendment that provided women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
A person making this argument would be in favor of what political
What is gerrymandering?
400
In what year were all Native Americans finally given citizenship?
What is 1924?
400
This is the primary function of political parties.
What is to win elections and control the government?
400
Favors extreme change to create an altered or entirely new social system.
What is Radical?
400
This Amendment was, lowering the voting age to 18, was propelled by the Vietnam War.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
This political ideology is most aligned with believing the government should be hands-off with regard to civil liberties.
What is Libertarian?
500
The process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization?
500
Conservative spin off of the Republican party that had much congressional success in 2010 and was spearheaded by Sarah Palin, then governor of Alaska. Its major platform was lower taxes.
What is the Tea Party? (Tea is actually an acronym for "Taxed Enough Already")
500
Favors extreme change to restore society to an earlier, more conservative state of affairs.
What is Reactionary?
500
The two pieces of early Congressional Legislation in the civil rights movement; which were the first laws passed to enforce the 15th Amendment, and were not generally effective but provided the first stepping stones to voter equality.
What are the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960?
500
Which of these four individuals is more likely to vote?
1. A 19-year-old woman.
2. A 47-year-old woman.
3. A 90-year-old man.
4. A 47-year-old man.
What is a 47-year-old woman?