Political Parties and Voting Assessment

1. Who is farther to the left on the political spectrum?

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Third party candidates

2. Who is to the right on the political spectrum?

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Third party candidates
• All of the above

3. The United States has a two party system

• True
• False

4. Smaller political parties that usually focus on a specific issue or cause are known as

• Platform parties
• Third parties
• Primary parties
• Major parties

5 Today, the democratic and republican parties differ most on their ideas about

• whether or not freedom is important
• how important it is to protect the environment
• whether the government should play a large or small role in our lives
• whether or not the Electoral College should be used to elect the president

6. For most of the 1900's, African Americans were prevented from voting by:

• Intimidation, economic retaliation, and violence.
• Poll taxes” that many poor people could not afford.
• Literacy tests.
• All of the above.

7. What practices used today to are believed to discourage voting or politically disadvantage some populations?

• Voter ID laws
• Gerrymandering
• Denying the right to vote to the incarcerated or formely incarcerated
• All of the above

8. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Changed voting age from 21 to 18
• Prohibits racial discrimination in coting
• Expanded voting rights to dual citizens
• Banned felons from voting.

9. Which of the following best describes voter purging?

• deleting voters from registration lists without their knowledge due to inactivity
• closing polls early to limit voter access
• when candidates engage in aggressive tactics to obtain voters
• None of the above

10.Which of the following best describes voter suppression?

• The redrawing and manipulation of voting district boundaries every ten years with the census count to favor one party over another.
• legal exclusion from the right to vote
• legal enforcement of a citizen's right to vote
• Intentional efforts to prevent an eligible voter from exercising their right to vote through a range of actions, policies, and laws