Unit 4 Vocab

Match the following

• the share of inhabitants by types of regions in a country

• Two party system

• deprive of a legal right

• Disenfranchisement

• political system with two major parties

• Civic Participation

• individual and collective actions to identify issues of public concern

• Population Distribution

• international politics influenced by geographical factors

• Geopolitics

Match the following

• individual or group that monitors activities of other individuals or groups

• Voter suppression

• a strategy used to influence an outcome of an election

• Interest groups

• In the US a body of people that represent a state in the presidential election

• Watchdog agency

• groups that influence public policy

• Third party

• person or group besides the 2 primary people or group

• Electoral College

Match the following

• achieve a result that is manipulating boundaries for elelctions

• Gerrymandering

• given the right or privilege

• Elections

• structure within a society that connects people to the government or central authority

• Linkage Institutions

• formal & organized choice by vote of a person for political office

• enfranchisement

• right to vote in political elections

• suffrage

Match the following

• a natural or moral right possessed by everyone

• alien

• the policy of protecting the interests of the established inhabitants

• poll

• any person not a citizen of the United States

• redistricting

• record opinions or voting

• birthright

• organizing an area into new political or school districts

• nativism

Match the following

• an instance of leaving something or someone out

• sedition

• conduct or speech that incites people to rebel against authority

• Intimidation

• to make timid or fearful; to compel by threat

• exclusion

• free persons that owned land

• resolution

• a firm decision to do or not to do something; a formal statement of decision or opinion

• freeholder

Match the following

• fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful imprisonment

• process

• a way of regarding or understanding something; a mental impression

• habeas corpus

• revoke or annul an act

• interpretation

• series of steps taken in order to achieve a particular end

• repeal

• the action of explaining the meaning of something

• perception