• Laws enacted by southern whites to segregate African Americans in the late 19th century.

• How does an initiative get put on a bill?

• Signed petition

• The largest part of an American political party

• Party-in-the-electorate

• Name the theory…• Interest groups compete and

counterbalance one another

• Pluralist

• A party’s official selection of a candidate

• Nomination

• What do both parties try to do?

•WIN

• Who creates bureaucratic agencies?

• Congress

• The method in which most polling is done today

• By telephone

•Jim Crow laws

•Term that refers to the fact that America will no longer have a white majority.

•Minority majority

• The Associated Press is an example of one of these.

•Wire service

• The nations unofficial, “newspaper of record”.

•The New York Times

• Short clips of political speech lasting 15 seconds or less

•Sound bites

•Shot of a person speaking directly into the television camera

•Talking head

• A team of men and women seeking to control the government by gaining office in elections

•Political party

• The most common source for our news

• television

• Where the formal nomination for Dem and Rep candidates for president occur?

•National party conventions

• A method used by public figures of leaking stories to the press

•Trial balloon

• The specific goal of the presidential nomination game

•Win delegates and win the party nomination

• When is the party platform drafted?

• Before the convention

• Where does most money get spent during Presidential campaigns?

•Media

• What was the significance of the Presidential election of 1800?

• First transition of power in the history of the world accomplished by voters ballots

• In this US Supreme Court case, the court ruled that a recount was legal as long as it was applied to all counties in the state

•Bush v. Gore

•This requires states to register individuals to vote when they apply for, or renew, their driver’s license.

•Motor Voter Act of 1993

•This group is composed of all people who might be a group

•Potential group

• The problem of people not joining a group, yet enjoying the same benefits as if they had joined the group.

•Free-rider problem

• This means that ordinary people (like you) can influence the government

•Political efficacy

• Something of valued that benefits both actual and potential group members

•Collective good

• How do Americans feel about bureaucrats?

•satisfied

• This Civil Rights act of the 1960’s was successful because it had clear goals and methods to achieve its goal.

•Voting Rights Act of 1965

• What are Amtrak and the USPS examples of?

• Government Corporations

• Why is the census important to states?

• Federal aid

• How often is a census conducted and why?

• Every 10 years and cuz the Constitution says so.

• What must a cop have in order to arrest someone?

• Probable cause

• Evidence that is gathered without a warrant is not admissable in court. This is due to which rule?

• Exclusionary rule

• What is the first primary?

• New Hampshire

• Policies that give rights to those that have been discriminated against over the course of history.

• Civil rights

• The process through which an individual acquires his or her own political orientations

• Political socializatiion

• Largest group of the minority majority

• African -Americans

• Which part of the Bill of Rights forbids self-incrimination?

• 5th Amendment

• Where would you find the phrase, “all men are created equal”?

• The Delclaration of Independence

• What is the Miranda Rule?

• Informs an accused person of their rights

• Who REALLY chooses the President?

• The Electoral College

• This forbids states from denying equal protection of the laws.

• 14th Amendment

• What is the “gray liberation”?

• The fight for the rights of the elderly

• The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues.

• Public opinion

• The science of human populations

• demography

• The goal of affirmative action

• Move towards equal results

• The first presidential caucus

• Iowa

• The largest federal agency

• Social Security Administraion

• This set the rules for selecting delegates to the Democratic National Convention

• McGovern-Fraser Commission

• Giving a job to someone as a favor

• Patronage

• Legal and constitutional protections AGAINST the governement

• Civil liberties

• Organization of people with similar policy goals

• Interest group

• According to this theory, interest groups mean nothing

• Elitist

• Madison referred to parties and interest groups by this term

• Factions

• Under the original constitutional system, the person with the 2nd most electoral votes became this

• Vice President

• Voting for legislation or a constitutional amendment

• Referendum

• A staged press opportunity

• Media event

Amendment

• Gave women the right to vote

• 19th amendment

Civil rights

• Native Americans became citizens in this year

• 1924

• How were questions orginally submitted to the president?

• In writing

• When are exit polls taken?

• On election day, as people leave the polling place

• Established the federal Civil Service

• The Pendleton Act

• Reporters using detective-like means to break a story

• Investigative journalism

• Where is the establishment clause found?

• 1st amendment

• The cozy relationship between the press and politicians ended with these events

• Vietnam and Watergate

• This act prohibits federal Civil Service workers from active participation in politics

• The Hatch Act

• The book that lists the top federal jobs for presidential appointment

• The Plum Book

• The wise party selects policies that are popular

• Rational-choice theory

• They are considered to be the interpreters of civil liberties

• The Supreme Court

• Unreasonable search and seizure is which amendment?

• 4th amendment

• When was the Bill of Rights written?

• 1789