American Govt Unit V Review

Five functions of Political Parties:

• Executive branch, Legislative branch, judicial branch, bureaucratic branch

• Nominating Candidates, Informing and Activating supporters, the bonding agent function, governing, and the watchdog functions

• Nominating candidates, informing presidential candidates, bonding agent, petitioning, and the watchdog function

• Nominating candidates, understanding the political spectrum, dividing the country, creating polarization

The first two political factions in the U.S:

• Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• Federalists and Whigs

• Anti-Federalists and Republicans

• Republicans and Democrats

Which system discourages minor parties

• Consensus

• Tradition

• Single-member districts

• Proportional districts

Authoritarian countries or dictatorships have:

• two-party system

• tri-party system

• one-party system

• single-member districts

__________-___________ systems have long been a feature of most European democracies. They have several major and many lesser parties exist and compete for public offices

• one-party

• two-party

• multi-party

• tri-party

__________ warned against political parties.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• George W. Bush

The free-soil party is a ____________ party.

• ideological

• splinter

• single-issue

• economic protest

Teddy Roosevelt's splinter party was known as:

• “States’ Rights” Democratic Party

• “Bull Moose” Progressive Party

• “People’s Sovereignty” Republican Party

• “Country First” Libertarian Party

At a major party's national convention they:

• meet to elect the President

• meet to decide who they want to run for political office of each county

• pick the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates & set their platform

• meet during the winter to celebrate or sulk if their candidate won or lost

Stage 2 of the expanding of voter's rights was:

• the 26^th amendment in 1971 which set the minimum voting age at 18

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Early 1800’s where religious, property and tax qualifications were abolished

• the 15^th amendment passed prohibiting voting restrictions based on race or color