Unit Three Lesson Ten Government

A meeting of party members to choose party officials or nominees for elective office

• Coattail effect

• Stump speech

• Caucus

• Party base

Influence that a popular politician may have on voters, making them likely to choose other candidates from same party

• Caucus

• Stump speech

• General election

• Coattail effect

An election in which voters choose among candidates from different parties to fill an elective office

• General assembly

• General election

• Caucus

• Primary election

Activists who embrace the core value of their party and are likely to vote in primary elections than are centrist voters

• Primary election

• Party base

• General election

• Stump speech

The largest number of votes in an election; in elections with more than two candidates

• Stump speech

• Caucus

• General election

• Plurality

An election in which voters determine their party’s nominee for an elective office

• General election

• Coattail effect

• Primary election

• Party base

A candidate’s “standard” speech, which is repeated throughout his or her campaign

• Stump speech

• Party base

• Caucus

• Plurality

Electoral system that awards offices to the highest vote-getters without ensuring representation for voters in minority

• Plurality

• Primary election

• General election

• winner-take-all system

The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 finally allowed American Indians

• To pay poll taxes

• To vote

• To request literacy tests.

• To own property

Who was allowed to vote when this nation was founded?

• African Americans

• Adult women

• White male property owners

• All answers are correct