Government Quiz 7
The amendment granting women's suffrage is the
19th amendment
The amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen is the
26 amendment
The typical procedure for an initiative requires petitions to feature the signatures of _________ of the number of registered voters in a state.
5 to 10
Which country was the first to provide for the general election of representatives through mass suffrage?
United States
One criterion that must be met for a country to be democratic is that it must
have more than one political party
Americans contributing money to a candidate's campaign is best defined as a form of
influencing behavior
Psychological explanations of turnout suggest that voting will rise if
more Americans believe that government is responsive.
A legal action brought by a person or group on behalf of a number of people in similar circumstances is also known as a(n)
class action suit
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to
discourage African Americans from voting.
Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to women, the United States
was among the first
If voter turnout was computed on the basis of registered voters, about ________ of Americans vote.
80 percent
Citizen mobilization to stop construction of a nuclear waste facility near their homes would be an example of the _________ phenomenon.
NIMBY
__________ championed the direct primary.
Progressives
All of the following are regarded in the text as examples of unconventional participation except
Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City
Women compared to men, and blacks compared to whites, tend to have political participation rates today that are
about the same
During the Vietnam War, protesting students on college campuses
all of the above are true
Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building because he
believed the US gov. had become a police state.
Elections, as an institutional mechanis m,
bolster the power and authority of the state.
In Oregon, everyone votes by
by mail
A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is whether
citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions.
Of all the social and economic variables affecting political participation, _________ is the strongest single factor.
education
A 2013 supreme court decision regarding the Voting Rights Act allowed numerous states to
enforce new voter identification laws.
Americans are less likely to __________ than citizens of other countries.
join demonstrations.
Characteristics frequently associated with nonvoters are
low education, low income, and being relatively young.
Which of the following qualifications for voting was virtually eliminated in all states by the 1850s?
property ownership
The effect of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which enfranchised eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds, was to
reduce the national turnout rate.
According to the text, violent unconventional political participation is
sometimes worth the risk
The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott is an example of
successful unconventional political participation.
__________ is political action that expresses allegiance to country and government.
supportive behavior.
Although terrorism is an unconventional political action, it is generally not counted as unconventional political participation because
terrorists do not seek to influence government but to destroy it.
The country with the lowest voter turnout among eligible voters in congressional elections is
the United States
Which of the following was the first known act of unconventional participation in America?
the boston tea party
In nearly every other democratic country, the burden of registration is placed on
the government
One recent criticism of referenda and initiatives is that
they create an expensive "industry" designed around circulating petitions and spending millions.
The American emphasis on freedom over equality in political participation works to the benefit of
those with greater resources