AP US GoPo Unit 5 Vocab Quiz

Voting for a candidate based on campaign promises and a belief that he or she will bring about positive change.

• Prospective Voting

• Retreospective Voting

• Rational Choice Voting

• Party Line Voting

The means through which people's concerns and interests become political issues on the government's policy agenda. For example: political parties, interest groups, media, and elections.

• Political Party

• Party Convention

• Linkage Institution

• Closed Primary

The benefit a current office holder has going into an election, due to factors such as name recognition and campaign finance. 

• Caucus

• Party Platform

• Incumbency Advantage

• Winner take all System

This provision lowered the voting age to 18.

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

A group of like-minded citizens who organize to win elections, hold office, and determine public policy.

• Party Platform

• Caucus

• Political Party

• Electoral College

Funding given to political parties for party activities, as opposed to funding directed towards a specific candidate.

• Soft Money

• Hard Money

• Freerider

• Lobbyist

Popular means of communication to reach a wide audience, such as television, radio, and the Internet.

• Mass Media

• Soundbite

• Gatekeeper

• Interest Groups

A meeting of party delegates every four years, where a party’s candidate is officially nominated and the platform is adopted.

• Caucus

• Open Primary

• Party Convention

• General Election

Voting for a candidate based on party loyalty.

• Party Line Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Rational Choice Voting

This provision granted women’s suffrage.

• 17th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 15th Amendment