US History Chapter 12 Vocabulary Quiz: Jacksonian America

A candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state

• favorite son

• spoiled son

• special son

• frontrunner

The largest number of votes, but less than a 50% + 1

• plurality

• majority

• fraction

• portion

Greater than half the total number of votes

• majority

• plurality

• fraction

• portion

A method of election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad

• mudslinging

• yellow journalism

• libel

• bureaucracy

A part of the government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones

• bureaucracy

• pyramid

• government corporation

• spoils system

The practice of handing out government jobs to supporters, or replacing government employees with the winning candidate's political supporters.

• spoils system

• merit system

• civil service

• mudslinging

A meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices.

• nominating convention

• spoils system

• political parties

• caucuses

To move to another place

• relocate

• veto

• mudsling

• facilitate

To reject a bill to prevent it from becoming a law

• veto

• mudslinging

• pigeon holing

• pluratlity