AP govt Unit 5 Quiz
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25 Terms
What are linkage institutions?
Connect people to the government
What is franchise?
Right to vote
What is the electorate?
People who can vote
What is a formal change to the Constitutuion?
An amendment passed by Congress
What is an informal change to the Constitutuion?
Through legislation or the SUMPREME COURT!
What are the inital voting rights in America?
United states citizen
White, Male
Over 21
Property owner
What did the Jacksonian Era (1828 - 1848) do for voting rights?
All white man can vote without property
What did the Reconstruction Era (1864 - 1877) do for voting rights?
All men can vote regardles of skin color (black people)
What did the 17th Amendment do?
People now able to elect senators in congress
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote
What did the 23 Amendment do?
People in Washington DC get to vote for president!
What did the 24 Amendment do?
No more poll tax
What is the 26th Amendment
You can now vote at age 18
What two groups are not able to vote?
People in mental insitutuons and convicted felons
What is a Political Party?
Independent organization that wants to control government through winning elections / holding office
What is a Party System?
When one political party controls govenrment
What are Critical Elections?
Elecions with changes in society that change support of political parties and voters parties
What are Party Realigments?
Transitions from being mostly run by one political party to being run by another one
How did the Democratic Party realign itself?
Went from conservative states rights to liberal party
How did the Republican Party realign itself?
Went from anti-slavery to conservative state rights
What are Ideological Parties?
Share a common set of political beleifs
What are Single Issue Parties?
They focus on a single issue plauging american society
What are Economic Protest Parties?
Boo economy bad (short lived)
What are Splinter Parties?
They break away from major parties and often center around political figure
EX: Bull Moose Party
What is the Revolving Door?
Movement of government officials to lobying positions / industries they regulated