civics political Parties in the US

_____________ are activities that influence the actions and policies of a government, or getting and keeping power in a government.

• Politics

• Candidates

• Parties

• government

___________ are the opinions that someone has about what should be done by the government.

• Political beliefs

• Voters

• Campaigns

• Issues

 Generally, people vote for ______________ they think will best represent their beliefs and will support the ideas that are important to them.

 

• strategies

• senators

• voters

• candidates

Groups of people with the same or similar political beliefs often belong to the same______________.

• community

• class

• Political Party

• government

Political parties are groups of people that work to be in charge of the government. In the United States, we have several political parties, but we often refer to the two biggest political parties:

– The______________________

– The _____________________

• Democratic Party

  Republican Party

• People's party

  Green Party

• House of Representative

  Congress

A political party campaigns to win support by gaining the votes of the American people. A ­­­­____________is a series of actions or events that are meant to achieve a particular result, such as helping someone get elected to a political office.

• Census

• House of representatives

• Campaigns

• Senators

Each party explains its views on important issues, called a political party ________________.

• declaration

• platform

• mission

• goal

Political parties base their platforms on many __________________  such as education, taxation, government spending, healthcare, environmental protections, etc.

• issues

• voters

• candidates

• offices

Education is one of the issues many people continue to debate. People have strong opinions and ideas about how to improve the education system. Sometimes those ideas _________________ or do not match.

• support

• agree

• emerge

• conflict

When people talk publicly about an important issue, it is called their _______________ on that issue.

• area

• horizontal line

• vote

• position