Unit 2: Political Parties and Voting

List the major goals of political parties?

• Promoting social justice, advocating for human rights, ensuring economic stability, fostering international relations, protecting the environment
• Winning elections, formulating policies, representing interests, mobilizing voters, influencing public opinion
• Maximizing profits, gaining political power, suppressing opposition, implementing authoritarian rule, promoting inequality
• Providing social services, ensuring public safety, promoting cultural values, maintaining law and order, regulating the economy

The right to create an interest group is not in the Constitution directly, but it is considered protected by what amendment?

• First Amendment
• Second Amendment
• Fourth Amendment
• Tenth Amendment

Where in the Constitution are political parties and interest groups discussed specifically?

• Not discussed
• Article II
• Amendment I
• Article I

List four ways some states prevented the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment.

• Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, intimidation tactics
• Violence and threats
• White primaries
• Property ownership requirements

What amendment gave 18 year olds the franchise?

• 19th Amendment
• 27th Amendment
• 25th Amendment
• 26th Amendment

What are the three universal qualifications for voting in the United States, AND what are the requirements in IL?

• Education, income, and gender
• Marital status, occupation, and race
• Religion, political affiliation, and social status
• Citizenship, age, and residency

Which party is traditionally associated with the minority vote?

• Libertarian Party
• Green Party
• Democratic Party
• Republican Party

Which party carries the rural vote?

• Green party
• Conservative or right-leaning party
• Independent party
• Liberal or left-leaning party

The elections which decide which person each of the major parties will run in the main election are called:

• general elections
• primary elections
• presidential elections
• local elections

The elections in November which decide who will actually take office are called:

• primary elections
• general elections
• local elections
• presidential elections