government exam 3

On average, more women vote for

Democratic candidates, and more men vote for Republican candidates.

The first party system was characterized by conflict between the

Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans.

Primary elections were introduced by the

Progressives in order to weaken the power of party leaders.

From 1896 to 1932, the

Republican Party was the nation's majority party.

From the end of the Civil War to the 1890s, the

Republican Party was the party of the North, while the Democratic Party was the party of the South.

The program of Reconstruction after the Civil War was led by the

Republican Party.

Between the Civil War and the 1960s, the

South was a Democratic stronghold.

When a congressional election is held that does not coincide with a presidential election, it is called

a midterm election.

The term turnout describes the number of people that

actually vote.

A political party is

an organization that tries to influence the government by getting its members elected to office.

When a voter must be registered with a party prior to voting in that party's election, it is called a

closed primary.

During the late 1840s and early 1850s, both the Democratic and Whig parties were divided by

conflicts over slavery.

An individual's psychological attachment to one party or another is called a party

identification.

Geographic region

is not a key factor in indicating one's level of participation?

The right of candidates to spend their own money on running for office

is protected absolutely by the First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court

Compared with Western Europe, the United States has a

lower turnout in elections.

During midterm elections, voters are voting for

members of Congress.

An example of the phenomenon called the gender gap would be that

more women than men vote for Democrats.

Since 1960, blacks have

overwhelmingly voted for candidates from the Democratic Party.

If the winner of an election is whoever receives the most votes, regardless of the percentage of votes received, the candidates are running under a

plurality system.

Most European nations employ a

proportional representation system of elections.

Third-party candidates are better off under

proportional representation.

Political scientists call voters' choices that focus on future behavior

prospective voting, while those based on past performances are called retrospective voting.

The term suffrage refers to the

right to vote.

A party's national committee does NOT

select presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

One important cause of the United States' two-party system is

single-member electoral districts.

The issue of

slavery led to the demise of the Whig Party?

The primary responsibility for conducting public elections rests with

state and local governments.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the criteria for determining one's eligibility to vote were established by

state governments.

A major factor in John Kennedy's 1960 presidential victory over Richard Nixon was

that Kennedy had a much stronger performance than Nixon during televised debates.

One reason that political parties and politicians view Latinos as a critically important group is

the Latino population in the United States is large and rapidly growing.

Evangelical Protestants are more likely to be associated with

the Republican party.

Dealignment refers to

the decline of partisan attachment within the electorate, the growth in the number of voters identifying themselves as independents, and the rise of "split-ticket" voting.

National elections held in the United States

the first Tuesday of November every other year.

A referendum is

the practice of voting directly for proposed laws.

Smaller and weaker parties are most likely to have electoral success under

the proportional representation system of elections.

The best explanation for the fact that Latinos have tended to favor Democratic Party candidates in national elections is that

they disagree with the Republican Party's stance on immigration.

The original purpose of voter registration was

to reduce corruption by making it more difficult to vote.

Throughout its history, American politics has been dominated by

two major political parties.

Jobs

were the most common favors political bosses distributed to loyal party members during the era of political machines.

The Democrats and the Whigs

were the two major parties in the United States during the 1830s and 1840s.

Historically, realignments occur

when new issues combine with economic or political crises to mobilize new voters and persuade large numbers of voters to reexamine their traditional partisan loyalties.

George Washington

, in his farewell address, encouraged his fellow citizens to shun partisan politics?

The incumbent is the current officeholder, running for re-election.

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The wealthy is one group most likely to support the Republican Party.

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The Constitution was amended to allow women to vote during all public elections in

1920.

The Constitution was amended in

1971 to give eighteen-year-olds the right to vote.

Richard Nixon's election in 1968

best indicated the downfall of the New Deal coalition.

Plurality and majority systems tend to

decrease the number of political parties.

The plurality system

develops when the winner of an electoral race obtains more votes than any other candidate?