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| A belief that one can affect government policies. |
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| A belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political affairs. |
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| Belief that you are a member of an economics group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups. |
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| A belief that morality and religion ought to be of decisive importance. |
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| A coherent way of thinking about how politics and government ought to be carried out. |
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| A belief that you can participate in politics (internal efficacy) or that the government will respond to the citizenry (external efficacy). |
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| A belief that personal freedom and solving social problems is more important than religion. |
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| People who tend to participate in all forms of politics. |
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| A government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public. |
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| A clause in registration laws allowing a person who do not meet registration requirements to vote if he or his ancestor voted before 1867. |
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| A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote. |
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| A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. |
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| People who are registered to vote. |
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| Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching a minimum age requirement. |
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| The practice of keeping Blacks from voting in southern states’ primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation. |
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