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| Which groups would support the Whig Party? |
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| Baners, Merchants, and southern planters who detested Andrew Jackson |
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| A group or bloc in legislature or political party acting in pursuit of some special interest or position |
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A group whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion is known as random sample |
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The tool that is used to measure public opinion and to analyze its qualities is a political poll
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Push polls use misleading information in a quetion to persuade for or against a candidate |
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Sampling errors are the natural result of polling because of the difference between a sample's results and the true results if the entire population had been interviewed |
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The most important principle in sampling is randomness |
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Generational gaps are not important in a persons political beliefs |
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Peer groups often influence a person's political and social attitudes |
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The US appears to be polarized between 2 quite difference positions. This is known as a decisive opinion |
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Most democrats live and vote in the suburbs and rural areas |
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| The aggregate of individual attitides or beliefs shared by some portion of the adult population is called ______? |
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| The general agreement among the citizenry on an issue is called _____? |
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| One who is able to influence the opinions of others because of position, experties, or personality is called _____? |
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| A group consisting of members sharing common social characteristics is called _____? |
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| What is the lasting effect of the events of a particular time on the political opinions of those who came of a poltical age at that time called? |
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| The difference between the percentages of women who vote for a particular candidate and the percentages of men who vote for the candidate is called ____? |
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| The difference between a sample's result and the true result if the entire population has been interviewed is called ____? |
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| The last 2 presidential elections were examples of political polarization called _____? |
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| A group of political activists who organize to win elections, operate the government, and determine public policy |
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| A political system in which only 2 parties have a reasonable chance of winning |
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| Federalists Basic Beliefs |
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Pushed for the adoption of constitution,
Commercial interest like merchants and large planters. |
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| Anti-Federalist basic beliefs |
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Against ratification of constitution
Came to be called republicans, not to be confused with republicans w/ Lincoln.
Supported state's rights represented artisans and farmers |
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| A major party in the US during the first half of 19th century, formally established in 1836. Whig Party was anti-Jackson and advocated spending on infrastructure. |
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| One of the two major american political parties. Emerged in 1850's as an anti-slavery party and consisted of former Northern Whig's and anti-slavery Democrats |
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| a situation in which one major political party controls the presidency and other controls congress, or in which one party controls a state governship and the other controls the state legislature |
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| A standing committee of a national political party established to direct and coordinate party activities between national party convention |
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| The practice of rewarding faithful party workers and followers w/ government employment and contracts |
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| Voting for cadidates of two or more parties for different offices. For example, a voter splits her ticket if she votes for a republican presidential candidate and democratic congressional candidate |
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| A group of persons called electors, who are selected by the voters in each state. This group officially elects the president and vice president of the US |
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| A political party other than the 2 major political than the 2 major polticial parties (Republican and Democratic) |
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| A new party formed by a dissident faction w/ in a major political party. Often, splinter parties have emerged when a particular personality was at odds with the major party |
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A political party is a group of political activits who organize to win elections, operate the government, and determine public party |
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Separate-But-Equal Doctrine
Plessy Case |
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Doctrine holding that separate-but-equal facilities do not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment
Plessy V Ferguson- segregation of restaurants, hotels, theaters, public toilets, waiting rooms. "Equal" never enforced |
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| A state primary election that restricted voting to whites only. Outlawed in 1944 by Supreme Court |
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| Difference between De Jure and De Facto segregation |
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De Facto-accured because of patterns of racial residence and similar social condition
De Jure- occurs because of laws or administrative decsions |
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| What tactics were used to prevent blacks from voting? |
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1. Literacy test
2. Grandfather Clause |
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Separate-but-equal doctrine has been used in the past to segregate black citizens |
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De Facto Segregation always results from law |
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De Jure Segregation results from law |
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Affirmative action refers to attempt to compensate for past acts of discrimination |
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People who think women should stay in roles of 19th century are called feminists |
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The grandfather clause guarunteed older men the right to vote |
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Civil Rights are those laws passed which attempt to guarantee civil liberties |
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Breaking laws that one considers being against laws of nature is called civil disobedience |
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Civil law is always based on natural law
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The "poll" tax was a way to pay for the cost of elections |
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| Acts of industry and gov. which are designed to give special consideration to groups previously discriminate agaist are known as _____? |
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| The supreme court case of Plessy V Ferguson established the doctrine of _______? |
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| Racial imbalance in society that is not created by law but by residential patterns and prejudice are known as _____? |
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| Literacy tests, all white primaries, the grandfather clasue and poll taxes were all measures to ______? |
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| Violating a law based on moral grounds is called _____? |
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| A group or bloc in a legislature or political party acting in pursuit of some special interest or position is called _____? |
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| The modern Republican party emerged in the 1850's and it pulled together what parties to form a coalition? |
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| Former northern Whigs and Anti-slavery democrats |
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| The party group established to direct and coordinate party activities between national party conventions is the ____? |
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| The group that officially elects the president and vice president is the _____? |
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| THe party organized by Alexander Hamilton, which stood for strong central government and appealed to banking, commercial, and financial interest was the _____? |
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| Third Parties rarely win elections but may influence the outcome. Which elections did a third party candidate cost the election to a major party? |
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William H Taft
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Al Gore |
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| A statewide primary election of delegates to a party's national convention, help to determine a party's presidential nominee |
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| Polls taken almost every day to find out how well they are competing for votes. Enables consultants to fine-tune advertising and the cadidates speeches in the last day of the campaign |
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| A small group of individuals who are led in discussion by a professional consultant to gather opinions on, and responses to, candiates and issues. |
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| Bipartisan Campaign Act 2002 |
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| Sought to regulat the new campaign-finance practices developed since the passage of FECA. Banned soft money at the federal level, but it did not ban such contributions to state and local parties curbed issue advocacy advertising but increase sums that individuals can contribute |
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| A meeting of party members to select candidates and propose policies |
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| A party leader or elected official who is given the right to vote at the party's national convention. Super delegates are not elected at the state level |
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| A Type of primary in which the voter is limited to choosing candidates of the party of whoch he or she is a member |
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| A primary in which any voter can vote in either party primary (but only one party) |
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| An election in which political parties choose their candidates for the general election |
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| An election, normally held in November (first tuesday) that determines who will fill various elected positions |
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| Front Loading of delegate selection |
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| The practice of miving presidential primary elections to the early part of the campaign to maximize the impact of these primaries on the nomination |
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| a secret ballot prepared, distributed and tabulated by government officials at public expense. Since 1888, all states have used the australian ballot rather than an open public ballot |
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| The influence of a popular candidate on the electoral success of another candidates on the same party ticket. The effect is increased by the party-column ballot, which encourages straight-ticket voting |
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Public opinion is the expression of attitudes about government and politics |
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| the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs shared by some portion of the adult population |
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| General agreement among the citizenry on an issue |
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| public opinion that is polarized between 2 quite different positions |
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| A Method of systematically questioning a small, selected sample of respondus who are deemed representative of the total population |
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| Most important principle in sampling. They choose a large and diverse city to call and interview households, rural, urban, NE, Southern, etc. This 2000 people sample should represent 10's of millions in the population |
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| The difference between a sample result and true result if the entire population had been interviewed |
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| Biased polls that slant questions and information to attempt to influence the outcome of the poll |
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| A group consisting of members who share common social characteristics. Such groups play an important part in the socialization process, helping to shape attitudes and beliefs. |
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| A long-lasting effect of the events of a particular time on the political opinions of those who came of political age at that time |
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| One who is able to influence the opinions of others because of position, expertise, or personality |
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| The difference between the precentage of women who vote for a particular candidate and the percentage of men who vote for the candidate |
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More likely to vote democrat
post-graduate-degrees, manual labor, factory workers, union workers, african americans, asian americans, excluding vietnames, muslims and hispanics excluding cubans |
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The federalist party, organized by Alexander Hamilton, stood for strong central government and appealed to banking, commerce, and financial interests |
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The whig party was organized by jefferson and burr and later supported by Andrew Jackson |
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A Faction is group of candidates who identify w/ a political party |
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| T or F American Politics have been characterized by a 2 political party system w/ 3rd parties usually playing a minor role |
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The republican Party emerged in 1850's and stood for western expansion and anti-slavery |
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The National committees for both political parties selects the candidates for their party |
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Ticket splitting in elections is a rare occurence |
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A republican president and a republican congress is an example of a divided government |
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The modern Republican Party is a splinter party that emerged form te Democratic Party |
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| The party organized by Jefferson that appealed to agrarian interests, debtors, and frontiers men was the _______? |
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| Democratic-Republican Party |
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