HSA Review: 3

Groups of individuals with common interests that organize to influence public policy in a manner that benefits their members

• Interest groups

• Campaign

• Petit jury

The strategies and actions a candidate uses to encourage people to vote for a candidate

• Interest groups

• Campaign

• lobbyists

Term applied to agencies of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, and telecommunications

• lobbyists

• Petit jury

• media

People hired by interest groups to influence government decision-makers (members of Congress and the executive branch)

• lobbyists

• Petit jury

• indict

A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.

• Equal Protection Clause

• Electoral College

• media

A Constitutional guarantee that everyone be treated equally (from the 14th Amendment)

• Equal Protection Clause

• Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Civil Rights Act (1964)

Private groups that raise and distribute funds for use in election campaigns

• Political action committees (PACs)

• Selective Service

• political parties

Political parties that are smaller than the two major parties and introduce new ideas or press for a particular issue

• Democrats & Republicans

• Subpoena

• Third parties

A court order requiring a person to testify as a witness in a court trial

• indict

• Subpoena

• Democrats & Republicans

Election in which voters choose the candidates from each party who will run in the general election

• primary election

• media

• indict