Unit Six Review

Gabriel Sarwan only votes for political candidates whose platforms directly benefit the profitability of his small business.

This voting behavior can best be characterized by which of the following models?

• Party-line voting

• Rational choice voting

Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered a violation of the Twenty-fourth Amendment?

• A state institutes a law requiring state-issued photo identification to vote

• A state institutes a fee to vote in a presidential election

Priyanka Kumble votes for political candidates based solely on their platforms and the policies they and their party plan to implement once elected.

Which model of voting behavior does this best represent?

• Prospective voting

• Rational choice voting

Which of these statements best explains why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been important to expanding political participation in the United States?

• It introduced the requirement of showing an official form of identification to register for or vote in an election to deter voter fraud

• It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin

• It enforced the Fifteenth Amendment by preventing states from using legal barriers to prevent African Americans from voting

Which of the following best summarizes the data presented in the table for the 2008 presidential election?

• Independent voters are more likely to align with Republican candidates

• Partisanship has no impact on voter choice in an election

• Weak Democrats and Republicans voters are more likely to stay home than vote

• Party identification is a strong predictor of how a person voted in an election

Which of the following statements accurately describes a trend depicted in the graph?

• Boomers consistently showed the highest trust in government during the Reagan administration

• Trust in government fell most sharply among the greatest generation during the Carter administration

• Trust in government rose steadily across all generations throughout Clinton's first term

• Trust in government declined across all generations over the course of George H.W. Bush’s administration

Which of the following statements is best supported by the data in the chart?

• Race influences which candidate voters support in an election

• Black Americans are more likely to vote than any other race

Which pairing below correctly matches both a constitutional protection of voting rights and a past or current structural barrier to voting?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following important functions of democracy would most likely be more difficult without political parties?

• Reducing voter fraud in elections

• Educating voters on upcoming elections

Which of the following scenarios is an example of how the media can act as a linkage institution?

• A reporter publishes an article on the importance of using reusable straws over plastic straws

• A news anchor posts a Twitter poll asking his followers to vote whether he should wear a green tie or a purple tie that day

• A major newspaper organization publishes poll results indicating the percentage of the American public who support legislation to ban affirmative action programs