CE5a Political Parties

Select EACH of the following functions of political parties.

• Helping candidates win elections

• Educating the electorate about campaign issues

• Recruiting and nominating candidates

• Helping candidates lose elections

The citizens who are eligible to vote in an elections are called the ____________.

• We the people

• electorate

• unregistered voters

When you keep officeholders accountable by watching how they vote once elected you are ___________

• monitoring their actions

• recruiting and nominating

• helping them win

• doing nothing

Select the TWO major parties in the United States.

• Independents

• Republicans

• Third Parties

• Democrats

Selecting people to run for office represents which job of political parties?

• Nominating
• Watchdog
• Spoiler
• Informing the public

The president comes to Virginia to help a member of his political party campaign for Senate.  The President is...

• nominating a candidate for public office
• educating the electorate about the campaign issues
• helping candidate win an election
• monitoring the actions of the opposing political party

Which party assumes the role of  watchdog?

• The party in power
• the party out of power

Who created the symbols for the Republican and Democratic Parties?

• William Tweed
• Thomas Nast
• Jerry Holbert
• Joe Biden

Which of the following is a country with a two-party system?

• United States of America
• Japan
• Canada
• Cuba

The Republicans are represented by the donkey symbol and the Democrats by the elephant symbol.

• True

• False