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AP Gov-Unit 5 Part 1
This deck covers key amendments, voting behaviors, political processes, and institutions relevant to AP Government Unit 5 Part 1.
Fifteenth Amendment
Elimination of race requirement for voting
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Key Terms
Term
Definition
Fifteenth Amendment
Elimination of race requirement for voting
Seventeenth Amendment
Direct election of senators
Nineteenth Amendment
Women allowed to vote
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Elimination of poll tax
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Lowering voting age to 18
The Constitution
Article I –Legislative Branch, Article II –Executive Branch, Article III — Judicial Branch, Article IV – Interstate relations, Article V – Amendment p...
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Fifteenth Amendment | Elimination of race requirement for voting |
Seventeenth Amendment | Direct election of senators |
Nineteenth Amendment | Women allowed to vote |
Twenty-Fourth Amendment | Elimination of poll tax |
Twenty-Sixth Amendment | Lowering voting age to 18 |
The Constitution | Article I –Legislative Branch, Article II –Executive Branch, Article III — Judicial Branch, Article IV – Interstate relations, Article V – Amendment process |
Rational Choice voting | Voting based on what is perceived to be in the citizen’s individual interest. |
Retrospective voting | Voting to decide whether the party or candidate in power should be re-elected based on the recent past. |
Prospective voting | Voting based on predictions of how a party or candidate will perform in the future. |
Party-line voting | Supporting a party by voting for candidates from one political party for all public offices at the same level of government. |
Political efficacy | belief that you can participate in politics, or that government will respond (my vote counts) |
Linkage Institutions | organizations that link the people with government |
Interest Groups | a collection of people who share a common interest or attitude, and seek to influence government. These groups use fundraising and lobbying to influence the political process. Interest groups can be unions, government groups, businesses, think-tanks, or ideological groups |
Critical (realigning) elections | An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point, redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties. |
Lobbying | Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials, especially legislators, and the policies they enact. |
Iron Triangles | A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee, an interest group, and a Federal Department or agency. |
Issue Networks | Relationships among interest groups, congressional committees and subcommittees, and the government agencies that share a common policy concern. |
Free Rider problem | An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group’s influence. |
Coalition | A temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a government |
Political action committee (PAC) | The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members, stockholders, or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties. |
Super PAC | committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity. |
Bundling | A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a “bundle,” thus increasing the PAC’s influence. |
Independent expenditures | The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals, groups, and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual, group, or party does so, they are making an independent expenditure. |
winner take all system | Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins. |
closed primary election | Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote. |
open primary election | Primary election in which any voter, regardless of party, may vote. |
caucus | A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. |
General (presidential) elections | Elections in which voters elect officeholders. |
Dealignment | Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents. |
The Electoral College | Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president, in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party’s candidates. |