The way a political party expresses their beliefs to the American people.
What is a platform?
100
A run off election to determine a party's candidate.
What is a primary?
100
The age limit to vote in the state of North Carolina, and every other state.
What is 18 years old?
100
A type of propaganda that uses hurtful words to make the other candidate look bad.
What is Name Calling (Mud Slinging)?
100
This amendment defines citizenship in America.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This is the type of system the United States has in which majority rules.
What is a 2 party system?
200
The type of Primary the state of North Carolina holds.
What is a semi-closed primary?
200
To be the President of the United States you have to be at least this minimum age.
What is 35 years old?
200
A type of propaganda that uses images or even sayings to make the candidate look good.
What is Image Molding?
200
The amendment that came from women's suffrage and finally gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
One of this party's platforms is the idea of Laissez-Faire economics.
What is the Republican Party?
300
The final election (hopefully) that determines the candidate for the position, usually done in November.
What is the General Election?
300
This is the amount of time a Presidential candidate has to have lived in America.
What is 14 years?
300
A type of propaganda in which the candidate or committee uses only good/positive information on or about a candidate.
What is Stacking Cards?
300
This amendment came to be after the draft from the Vietnam War. It was the belief that if they were old enough to die they were old enough to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
This party was formed by Andrew Jackson back in 1824.
What is the Democratic Party?
400
The huge party that a Political Party throws in order to proclaim their one and only running candidate.
What is the National Convention?
400
Other than not being a US citizen and meeting the age limit, this would cause someone not to be eligible to vote.
What is being a Felon?
400
A type of propaganda in which it makes the voter feel like they need to do it because everyone else is.
What is Bandwagon?
400
Even after the Civil War African Americans were still denied the right to vote. This amendment changed that issue, giving all races no matter what their skin color is the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
The person responsible for the Republican party of today.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
A run off election held like a town hall meeting in which people endorse their favorite candidate by talking about them instead of just going to the polls.
What is a caucus?
500
To vote in North Carolina you have to be a resident of the state for this amount of time and have lived in your voting district for this amount of time (2 different answers).
What is 1 year and 30 days?
500
A type of propaganda that is popular, but yet give little in the speech or wordage department. This type appeals more to a voters emotions.
What is Glittering Generalities?
500
The District of Columbia, not being a state, was denied its citizens the right to vote for an elector in the Presidential Election until this amendment was created.