Campaign Finance and Elections

A formal process of selecting a person for public office, or accepting/rejecting a political proposition by voting is a ______.

• campaign

• election

• runoff

• referendum

Which of the following is one way that elections and campaigns have changed since the 1700s?

• campaigns are now conducted in town squares

• the main method of gathering information is the newspaper

• only the rich and powerful can vote

• campaigns now use social media

Which of the following is NOT a use of social media for a candidate?

• fundraising

• nominating

• organizing

• motivating voters

Which of the following is NOT a method in which candidates raise money for a campaign?

• support from the Oval Office

• donations from individual donors

• PACs

• Special Interest groups

The power for the FEC (Federal Election Committee) comes from which origin?

• Constitution

• Federal Election Campaign Act

• Hatch Act

• DNC

"Soft money" is _____

• used for campaign ads

• used for party building activities

• used by special interest groups to lobby

• used to get a candidate on the ballot

_____ is the right to vote

• sufferaging

• suffering

• suffrage

• suffability

Who would have been the FIRST to have the right to vote?

• a rich white American man

• a poor Black American man

• a poor white American woman

• a rich Black American woman

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 _______

• legalized literacy tests

• sent voter registrars to the South to guarantee legal rights were open to everyone eligible

• implemented poll taxes to anyone who had recently become eligible for voting rights

• protected the voting rights of only those that had been registered for the past 100 years

Voter turnout in the United States is _____ compared to other countries

• higher

• the same

• lower

• incomparable