Federal Gov. Ch. 7 Review Questions
Researchers have found that political apathy is which of the following in the United States compared to almost all other nations?
Much lower
Which of the following is a statewide election of delegates to a party's national convention, where the delegates will choose the party's presidential nominee?
Presidential primary
Which of the following qualifications for voting was virtually eliminated in all states by the 1850s?
Property ownership
With respect to political participation, what is the "great equalizer"?
Protesting
Compared to whites, African Americans today tend to have political participation rates that are which of the following?
About the same
Which of the following was the first known act of unconventional participation in America?
Boston Tea Party
A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is which of the following?
Citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions.
The march from Selma demonstrated to the nation the seriousness of which of the following?
Civil rights movement
A legal action brought by a person or group on behalf of a number of people in similar circumstances is known as which of the following?
Class action suit
Relatively routine participatory behaviors that use the established institutions of representative government such as voting in an election are called which of the following?
Conventional
Which of the following amendments extended voting rights to African American males?
Fifteenth Amendment
Which of the following is a criterion that must be met for a country to be considered democratic?
Having more than one political party
In general, which of the following factors contributes to higher voting rates?
Higher education levels
Which of the following best describes the relationship between income and voting?
Individuals with higher incomes are more likely to vote than individuals with lower incomes.
Which of the following best describes the right to vote?
It has been expanded since the writing of the Constitution.
Because it depends on mass participation in politics, majoritarianism tends to do which of the following?
It limits individual freedom.
Serving as an election judge is an example of which of the following?
Maybe : Supportive behavior
The relationship between participation and order is complicated because of which of the following?
Maybe: some types of participation promote disorder.
Women could vote in all states with the ratification of which of the following amendments in 1920?
Nineteenth
Which of the following granted women the right to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment
Someone who asserts that elections "socialize political activity" is contending that elections are mechanisms that maintain which of the following?
Order
Which of the following terms can be defined as the actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics?
Political participation
Which of the following groups is most likely to engage in unconventional political participation?
The wealthy
Which of the following groups of Americans turns out to vote at the lowest rate?
The youngest voters
Congress and the states moved quickly to pass the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, because of which of the following?
They hoped to channel student energy away from demonstrations and toward more conventional forms of participation.
The American emphasis on freedom over equality in political participation works to the benefit of which of the following?
Those with greater resources
Which of the following amendments lowered the voting age to 18?
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
In 1965, which of the following laws was passed by Congress that effectively ended strategies that had discriminated against African Americans at the polls?
Voting Rights Act
The majoritarian model of democracy favors which of the following?
Voting as the primary means of participation
Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to women, the United States was which of the following?
Was among the first
Freedom as a value in political participation tends to advantage which group?
Wealthy individuals
