Ch.10 Vocabulary

a presidential party candidate favored by his home state

• Bureaucracy

• majority

• favorite son

• relocate

greater than half of a total number of something

• Spoils' system

• majority

• relocate

• veto

the largest number of something, but less than a majority

• plurality

• majoriity

• favorite son

• veto

a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad

• Bureaucracy

• majority

• veto

• mudslinging

a system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones

• Majority

• Bureaucracy

• Mudslinging

• Institution

giving jobs to people as favors for their political support

• spoils system

• favorite son

• plurality

• veto

to move to another place

• plurality

• institution

• relocate

• veto

a meeting where political parties decide on candidates to run in an election

• favorite son

• spoils system

• nominating convention

• instiution

national government

• federal

• relocate

• institution

• veto

a large organization

• nominating convention

• majority

• veto

• institution